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is there a banner rotator for for under the first post?

There is a template called ad_showthread_firstpost where you may insert a placeholder in order to show a rotating banner.

what does the placeholder look like

edit: I found it.

ads are not running

I removed the first two IDs and none of the banners are running.

There are many reasons why an ad could not run. But the most frequent reason is, you have not inserted the placeholder in any of the templates.

Also, it may happen you have restricted your banner set too much. Please try the inbuilt banners first, and if they fail, ask here. Also make sure to read the help, included in the package.

As for your PM (please don't post PM's if you can ask here), if you need to show one banner more often than others, just insert duplicate that one for as many times you need. A weight of 1:5 of 2 banners require to insert the second 5 times. You may use this script to duplicate banners 10 times (insert your values first):

Thanks for the mod, this works great! I use it in 3 different places on my homepage.

Does this work with animated gifs at all? I am using OpenX as the ad server so I just paste the insert code in this module but it only loads animated gifs for a split second than dissapears (the image). I revert back to a jpg and all is fine.... Odd...

Yes it does.

Sounds like a browser issue to me ...

no luck in displaying the built in ads....
installed 2.2.1.rbs.zip and 2.2.1.hotfix.admin_rbs.zip on my vb 3.8.4.

correct me if i'm wrong, if i place code below
<!--@vbbanners:2@-->
should display the google image.

Appreciate if there is really a detailed step by step in putting the ad using this mod...

<!--@vbbanners:0@-->
should display the samples which install together with the product. When those work on your site, also other scripts should work

y2ksw...thanks for amazing response!
i had it working now in vb 3.8.4.

but 1 q:
In the horizontal banner list, the ID for the samples are 1 and 2.
If i insert <!--@vbbanners:0@-->, it will show the sample ID1, which is google text.

is this a bug or something i amiss?

anyway, great mod!

Samples 1 and 2 are horizontal banners.

<!--@vbbanners:0@--> is a placeholder which will show horizontal banners, or better, banners which are located at position 0. the Placeholders don't show banners by ID, else they won't rotate at all. At the current state of development, you may use up to 10 different banner locations for any number of banners each. Banner locations 0 and 1 reflect the old positions horizontal and vertical respectively.

the <!--@vbbanners:0@--> placeholder does not work can we rotate more than two banner spots for location?

if this placeholder does not work for you, you may define your own in the options. Please make sure it contains %d, which identifies the location. For the rest you are free to choose what you like.

You may define as many banners you wish for each location.

the @vbbanners@ placeholder shows the sample spots only

If you have inserted your banners and they don't show up, probably your rules are too restrictive.

more than two ads are running, thanks for the plugin

<!--@vbbanners:2@--> appears as <!--@vbbanners:2@--> on the forum?

A HTML comment should not become visible ... unless it isn't inserted in a post and encoded into:

&lt;!--@vbbanners:2@--&gt;

This does work in 3.8.X correct?

Yes it does.

I am currently running this on vB 3.8.x and it works great. I want to upgrade to the new 4.0 suite, will the banner system still work? Thanks

Normal mortals have not yet seen, how vbulletin 4.x intends to handle old plugins and products. Most probably they will continue to work, but until it is released, tested and fixed from all of us, nobody could tell... :)

I've been assuming that most will NOT work with vB4, given that most of the code has been rewritten. It would be nice if some of the better products and plugins continued to work but I think we're safest to assume that we'll be starting over in that respect.

We can hope that some of the developers of the major add-ons have been updating their products via the alpha-beta releases (e.g., as vBSEO is doing).

Is it possible to MOD look only primary usergroup permission (see or not to see banners)?

Let me "picture" this :D

I am in Admin usergroup, and Admin usergroup not see banners.
After I create one custom usergroup, and make all Admins are leaders of that new usergroup, they are members of that additional usergroup too.
For that new usergroup is set up to SEE banners

So, I am in Admin usergroup (my primary usergroup) and in that Custom usergroup (Additional usergroup). And I see banners :D But I do not want it to see banners.

So is it possible to primary usergroup option is stronger that additional usergroup option?

No. The function I use is "is_member_of()", which includes also all secondary group memberships.

Hey Y2KSW-
Have you had a chance to test the beta of 4.0 yet? Thanks in advance.

Yes, it still works. But who knows, maybe the code breaks for the Gold release? :p

Hey Guys,

I'm having trouble placing the banner on my forum... IN options -> rotating banners system options I've changed the Nth Placeholder to <!--@vbbanners:0@-->, I have placed this option in the header template as: [ad_header_logo]<else /><!--@vbbanners:0@--></if>

I don't see any banners at all... What am I doing wrong, yes there are the default headers, and i have created a banner myself on position 0...

Robert

can you add support to the modcp?
i want my mod's to handle this.

10x

I have a customized header already that uses 2 images to create one long one.

How do i include your header template with my customized one so the banner/s sits on top of my right image?

Thanks

If you have changed the placeholder in the options to: <!--@vbbanners:0@-->, the banners never show up, because you actually try to use a constant. To make the banners work, they need to use a dynamid placeholder, where "0" must be "%d", thus: <!--@vbbanners:%d@-->

Some other valid examples:
@vbbanners:%d@
(mybanners:%d)
$my-ad-placeholder-%d-!

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. ;)

If you want to include the banners within CSS headers, you will have to create a script which loads and renders a custom vbulletin page with the banners only. I'm not sure though, if the CSS: url() is capable to load and handle scripts correctly. Please ask a HTML/CSS specialist for advice.

If the CSS is included in vbulletin (the CSS is not saved to disk), and the banners are image only, it should be fine to include a placeholder in the appropriate place. If you save your CSS to file, you will have to use a custom script.

Thanks for your reaction, Ok, I've placed <!--@vbbanners:%d@--> in the header and in the options, is that ok? I still have nothing on my screen... (there's something missing... i Think but I don't see it...

Robert

Therefore my image would have to become background CSS image. I understand. Thanks.

You have to place <!--@vbbanners:%d@--> in the options and <!--@vbbanners:0@--> in the template, in order to:

- make the placeholder dynamic: <!--@vbbanners:%d@-->
- show a rotating banner in position 0: <!--@vbbanners:0@-->

Concept of the placeholder: Common string which may become <!--@vbbanners:0@--> to <!--@vbbanners:9@--> by code. %d is a C++/PHP formatting placeholder which makes it possibile to script numeric formatting instead of hardcoding. Normally, you would simply ignore the presence of this option. Adversely, you would change this option, only if <!--@vbbanners:%d@--> does not work in your system.

Concept of a banner: Numeric constant which represents a number of banners to be shown at a position between 0-9. The script searches for <!--@vbbanners:0@--> to <!--@vbbanners:9@--> (previously inserted in your templates) and replaces each occurence, if available with a randomly assigned banner, to be shown at exactly that position.

Hello Giovanni,

Thank you for your very, very usefull posting. For some reason, i don't get the banners to show... very strange... I will puzzle on..

Robert