ok.. only problem I'm having now is I cannot save any scripts (ad blocks). everything else is working.

once the scripts work the images should show up on my site :D

ooh, and on the stats it just gives an error 'select a valid date range'

Eggplant sucks....well said :)

Nice formatting on the new Readme. The upgrade went very smoothly! No probs to report...good instructions. But I still have no banners :nervous: I AM SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT!! I must have something goofed? One thing I did notice that seemed strange was the "Master" only shows one banner (should be 2) and the "active" and "use master" fields are listed as "n/a".....I could not see how to activate the "master"?

Here is the debug info (yet another nice touch!):

Thanks in advance for your assistance The Geek!

haha, here's my debug if it helps.

Beat - Ive noticed a couple of things from the debug.
Under the master script (edit the master script)... the Defined ad block has nothing for its banner count. That needs to be at least 1 or no images will get pulled.
Some of your banners are in inactive categories which means they wont appear in the Display page. (They just kind of disapear is the category is blank)
Finally, in your navbar template, you appear to have $GAB_ads[2] and $GAB_ads[5]... but no $GAB_ads[0] and up ;)

The first ad output is always $GAB_ads[0], the next $GAB_ads[1], etc...

HTH's

Your scripts dont seem to exists coroll.

Try running the settings portion of the install. Actually, it looks like you had the old beta installed maybe? Before you do that though, delete GAB_settings from the datastore if you can to get rid of any old settings.

HTH#s

Everything seems to work just as described, except one minor detail. Hanif brought this up a few pages ago, and I have had the same problem. You suggested to re-install the newest version, but I think the issue is with me not understanding, not the hack.

The "want to advertise with us?" link goes to advertise.php (which is just a blank white screen when clicked). I already have an info page for advertising, and would like it to link there (vendor.html). In the GAB Manager/Settings/Options, I'm confused at what to do. The way that it sits in the settings below, doesn't do anything different. I've also tried a simple redirect of advertising.php to vendor.html, but that doesn't work, because then it interferes with the actual banner itself.

After a week and a half and 3 revisions I am certain this doesn't work on my forum. I am pretty sure, at least for me, the problem starts with the upoad.

I had much better results with Beta 2. Images uploaded, tested and viewed in my forums. So I'm pretty sure I am capable of following the instructions. Even when I get this working, I still don't understand how to go about setting up multiple rotating banner zones. From want I gathered it seems more like it is designed to do only single banners and maybe one rotating banner. I have asked this question 2 or 3 times already and have not recieved a reply. If it's gone going to accomidate multiple rotating banners I would rather know sooner than later.

One point I would like to share in case some of are making the same mistake. When I read the instruction, I thought the [] were just for reference purposes only and didn't use them in my template because in previous purposes they were not used.

Is there anyone who has the RC1 working?

there's something i may not be fully understanding..

i want to have my ads appear in only one section on each page (i've placed them right below the navbar). however, i different ads to show up (rotate) in this position.. so i want to see AdSense ads, then reload and see an image ad, etc.. is this possible?? i can't seem to get more than one type of ad to show up in the same position..

also, i'm having the same problem with the 'want to advertise with us?' link - takes me to a blank page that says 'Settings & Options'. i also end up in the same spot when i click on 'Stats' in my admincp...

me too

ok, i accedentally deleted ad script for forum home page, now I have no ad on the main froum page. how do I recreate it?

I also have a home page that's created using VBadvanced CMPS, can I add a banner to it as well?

First thing....I changed the $GAB_ads and everything is working! Thank you for your help and patience!

Re: $GAB - I did not realize that the number had to start with 0 and then progress from there. I thought it just needed to match the desired banner ID. By this, I assume the banner ID is just for my benefit and has no bearing on the display?

Re: Inactive categories. I was only tryiong to use two to get things started....I will get the rest going now.

Re: master script - I am confused bvy your commets but hey, it is working so...... (if it ain't broke...).

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP!

I think there is a bug with the GAB_wrapper_standard template (I cant tell as Im in a hotel) in that the advertising.php link is hard coded so it isnt carrying your setting into it.

To fix until I get back, just edit your template... its not very big.

Mambo - I have helped at every opportunity. Im sorry its not working for you, however its working for loads. I think that the problem is two fold. 1 is that you didnt get a clean uninstall from Beta 2 and the other simply lies in the complexity of the system. If you want to PM me an admin account, ill og in and check it out for you. Most problems people have had is jsut with configuring it.

As for rotating banners... it does do them without a problem. In the Ad Blocks section, go into the script (or Master script) you want the ad to appear in and either add an ad block or edit an existing one.
Make the first drop down menu be a rotating banner, the second setting the amount of images to rotate (i.e. 3) and the wrapper template the standard (leave the custom drop down empty).

If its the first block for that script, it will spit out as $GAB_ads[0], if its the second, it will spit out as $GAB_ads[1], etc...

As far as a random type of ad (i.e. random between a static ad and adsense between page refreshes)... I considered this but then assumed no one would really want something like that. COnsidering the system can be pretty complex, I didnt want to add even more options to confuse new users.

I am working on the stats system AND refining the system to make it a little more intutitive. Once its set up, its pretty obvious how everything works... however with great power comes the potential for great confusion ;)

As far as the Master script goes... its pretty simple.

I had two options when defining differing blocks depending on the page. The easiest from my end would have been to make you define ad blocks on a script level (set up an ad block per page e.g. showthread, forumdisplay, etc...). Since I thought most people would use the same ad setup on all their pages, I added a 'Master Script' page.
THis way you only have to set up your ad blocks in one section and all the other pages that had 'use master' ticked would 'inherit' their ad blocks from whatever you had set up in master.
This saves having to define an ad block per page...

See. Even there I think Im potentially confusing some... however its pretty simple. Maybe I need another way of saying it ;)

I can't say I totally understand it the entire system, but I did hack the template code to change it from referring to the advertising.php tag, instead just going to my buy an ad page.

I don't totally understand the clicks/view tracking (it doesn't appear to work) but I am to get banners up and display them at least, so that's major progress — and vastly better than what I could do with other packages.

I also know it's not totally finished and look forward to seeing the final product (and will be pushing a donation your way, in part for the software, in part for the excellent support).

Thanks for the work — it makes a big difference to a lot of us.

Wow, I've been waiting for this since you mentioned it some time ago. Thanks for the work you've put in!

I haven't had an opportunity to install this in my test forum yet, but given the impending upgrade to vBulletin 3.5, how will that impact this hack?

Half the reason for the rewrite is to make it 3.0x compatable and 3.5 compatable. Its not quite 3.5 ready yet - however on the train yesterday I just about got it there.
THat means that when its done, you will have an option to install a clean version for 3.0x or 3.5x. You will also have an option to upgrade from an already installed 3.0x to 3.5 with minimal (if any) effort.

The tracking is working - though the stats viewer is not yet finished. Make sure you installed the cron job to unpack and compress defered stat queries. If you have rc1.5 installed, you can see the crude, unfinished stat viewer to verify.

Cheers all.

Ok I have a question.

Does this hack allow you to use banners from another server?

What I am trying to do is...

I currently have my ads going through phpAdsNew.

I have two forum sections of my site which have dedicated advertisers, the rest of the site run other ads. For the dedicated sponsored forums, I currently have created another style and modified the header which the forums force that style on the members so the specific ads area only show in specific forums. (Am I being specific enough :D)

I would like to keep using PHPadsNew, but get rid of all the styles and use a program like this to pull the correct code from phpadsnew to display the correct ads in the correct areas.

As an example, I would like to set it so for the X forums to show the following ad:
The link is: http://ads.satelliteguys.us/adclick.php?n=a8ce476c
The Image url is: http://ads.satelliteguys.us/adview.p...amp;n=a8ce476c

Can I link to external images in this software?

If I can, then I will be able to finally offer my members more then one style which I have now. :)

If I understand right - then you should be able to put the second link in the GAB_custom_custom1 template (or add more custom ones) and set up the block code to use that. Saying that, you wont be able to track impressions or clicks though (actually I think you can still track impressions).

Am I doing something wrong?
I had beta working fine, then i unistalled and installed RC1.01
Since than it is not working and I can not find out why. Only what I know, that global.php is causing the trouble.
When I use original from backup page is loading corectly (of course without GABads).
With GAB_hacked global.php, my page doesnt want to load.

I enclose my global.php so if you would be so kind to review it. Thank you in advance.

Additional infor: GAB Manager is working in admincp

That looks fine. Did you totally uninstall the previous version? Thats the most common problem when upgrading.

Post the results from setting->debug (you need RC1.05)

Oh, and better remove your global.php attachemnt - Jellsoft doesnt like their code posted ;)

ok i removed it (it was only temorarily .-)


here is the debug, but i m not sure that is showing anything since it was not working, but I might be wrong...

Doesnt look like you have any scripts installed.

Run gab_install.php again, choose the install path, and then click the Settings link.

That should install your scripts

you are right, in each category are scipts mising...


I hae installed settings again, nothing has changed..

what do you mean by "choose the install path"... i dont see that option...

do this - if you have phpMyAdmin, go into your db's datastore and selete the GAB_settings row. Then try running the installation script (only the settings part).

Ok it works now. I have followed your words...

But now I am not getting ads......here is deug... any suggestions on this?
Many thanks Geek For Your Support!!!!