Yes, if you compile [forumhome]/rbs_banner.php?id=N as landing page into your banner and set the URL to your final landing page, where N is the ID of your banner.

I noticed if I put the banner code in vbulletin's default advertise banner script it won't show. Is there a way to work around this?So that I can just put the code inside vb's default first post content.

If you put an X into that space and it shows, also the banner should be shown. But maybe I'm wrong and some additional code runs on that area, although I don't believe ...

Maybe some additional code runs on that area. I am still trying

May I ask you few more questions. I did a search but I couldn't find a documents explaining this stats.

Could you please explain to us what does these stats mean. thanks



Extended Results

Records:

Unique IP's:

Unique Referers:

Unique Servers:

Unique Users:

Anonymous:


Unwanted Results

Direct Access:


Thanks in advance. :)

Those statistics are simply records of clicks on banners and logically split into categories. The meaning is literal and nothing special.

The unwanted results list attempts of clicks by scripts or direct access (no referer) and anything else I may come across in the future.

If you go into the rbs_hits table of your database, you will see what data is collected in order to fill those fields. The rbs_stats.php script is a raw example how to extract and elaborate the collected data. You may adapt it to your needs, making however sure to not overwrite it, when you eventually upgrade the product ;)

Greetings,

I just installed the hack and can not get the default banners to post. I uploaded it and see the google text and google image in the RBS > Banner List. Yes is checked in the RBS > Manage Banners. I'm using 4.1.0 PL 2.

Thanks for your help!

Have you made any change to your styles? ;)

This product will replace a formatted string in your templates. Please read the help files and/or see the flash help in the product post to see how to implement your first banner.

Thank you for your reply. I was following the flash and was trying to get the default google banners to work. My impression from the tutorial was that the google banners would work automatically. Is this incorrect? I have not changed anything in styles after downloading. Also, what help files are you referring to? Thank you again.

You will have to make style changes, since there is no "automatic" thing :)

However the default banners work once there is a placeholder in your styles. The flash tutorial is the best to start with - you may use the controls to step slowly through. In the package you also find a PDF file, which contains also a small FAQ. And last not least, about 1000 posts in this thread ... :)

Ah ha! I got it! Thank you so much. I can't wait to learn how to use it. Thanks.

Doesnt work with VBadvanced

how many different Ad locations are possible with this hack ? From the description it makes it seem like only 1 or 2 positions are available..

y2,

I have not really looked over your banner hack, but would you say it is
better then digitpoints hack? also, can ads also show up in blog posts?

This also looks a little complicated to install...I also see that you install
the hack on forums, is there a fee for you to do this? More then likely
I will have you do this as I do not know how to setup the placeholders
that are required for the banners to run, and I have a couple of themes
that may need to be modified in order for you to do this....

Can someone post their forum that is using this mod? Would like to
see this in action on a forum already using the mod.

Thank-You Sir,

Normally, you would use 1 placeholder for any kind of banner in your pages. This gives you any imaginable number of locations.

The positions 0...9 are merely types of banners, such as horizontal and vertical, although this is not entirely true. It is up to you how to use locations, my tip is to use as little as possible - most of the times, position 0 is just fine, for 1 or 100 banners on your page :)

I can't tell if it is better as anything else, but I have tried a lot of banner software before making my own. Currently, it is the most flexible banner tool for vBulletin, which I have come across.

The installation is as simple as any other product which has additional files, it needs FTP and basic knowledge of installing products.

Just follow the Flash help to get one banner running. Once you mastered that, you will discover the ease of adding more banners to your forums ... just insist and don't give up :)

Here is one site it uses it.

This works all fine and dandy, except it adds the tweetboard in to the frame, and it looks rather silly. Any way to fix this? Are you planning on adding this in to the future releases? options for auto-rotation instead of just refresh rotation?

You will have to adapt the iframe dimensions in order to make it look like it should.

I do not plan to add this to the product, since pages are usually shown from a few seconds to at most a few minutes, and in-place rotating does make no sense. Based on a 1 million page hit history at a commercial site with forums, only a very few pages (1...5) are shown more than 2 minutes. Also it would require me to respond to even more HTML questions which I am unable to answer.

There are no other options to rotate a banner efficiently in-place. You may look for Javascript, but then you will have to handle all devices which have no Java enabled with Content-Refresh anyways.

Have a nice weekend and a happy new year ... I'm off for a few days :)

That looks like a very simple rotation...but I would like to place banners in
certairn areas of the forum, not just at the top, how about placement?
does this mod have any payment options or is it all manual? auto pay, auto show?

It is a simple rotation ... the complexity depends on your settings, and same are the locations in your styles. You may overfill the pages or leave them bland, as you wish. The number of entries in the database and the number of placeholders in your styles define where to show how many different banners. By the way, it is a good idea to install it on a test board and just try. It is much easier to use than to describe.

And no, there is no auto-magic. You handle it all :)

I listened to you, and removed the auto-rotation. I love your mod, the tracking is awesome.

ahh nuts... :)

how about vB blog, can banners be shown in the blog also?

Thanks ... I love quotes like these :)

I think so ... I have no blog installed yet and can't tell at 100%.

Hi y2ksw,

I absolutely love it and finally got it working after you guided me through it. I've looked through all the posts, but can't figure out what the direction is on this - how can I make the rotating banner system work with photopost?

Has anybody got this to work with photopost?

Hi i can put this working with one flash.

I send you a PM.

Best Regards

Great mod, but really need it to work with Photopost.

When I put a flash banner in position 2, it puts it over top of the menu in the top right. Do you know how to fix this?

ad_global_header2

where would these 2 files go when I load the files I know whwre everything else goes

rbs wrapper

rbs,banner php

I know how to do this I think

with these foulders and files
upload

admincp

includes-xml-cron-

but where do I load these .public html-forums- where

rbs wrapper

rbs,banner php

they go in the root of your .com i believe

Very good mod. thank you very much.

How can i change FPS value of rbs_wrapper.swf ? I am using 12 fps on creating swf files.
This is going crazy and very fast playing swf files ?

I am having a hell of a time with this.

I followed the directions outlined in the tutorial and it partly works, but I have to create new templates which are not included...

Anyone out there have a COMPLETE walk through / set up? or willing to install and set up to spec?

www.invertplanet.com/forum/

Why would you create new templates? Try to think simple, inserting a banner placeholder in one of the existing templates is simple. :)

I'm not sure what Photopost does to vbulletin. Maybe you are lucky in finding somebody who has enough time to check it out - I'm in the (un)lucky situation to have no time at all.

Looks like a CSS/float issue.

All files and subfolders inside the upload folder go into your forum root. :)

It works with blogs - at least with the standard location and uncached contents.

In the tutorial, it had templates that were not in my template list on 4.1.0.

BUT, I did get it to place the image where I wanted it :) As you mentioned I edited the ad_global_header_1. Yay!! :D

So now I can get images there no problem but my flash object doesn't play.

http://www.invertplanet.com/forum/forum.php

So, I've revisted this mod. I can confirm my image URL is correct, but it isn't showing correctly when I "copy link" by write clicking. I get this when right clicking : http://www.thetruckstop.us/forum/PMD%20Cable

My actual URL in the AdminCP is this:

http://www.thetruckstop.us/forum/ima...s/pmdcable.jpg

I'm running the latest version.

Well, your Flash says: Loading 100%. This means in clear-text, it works, but after loading it does not proceed. I'm unable to tell what your Flash code does. If you need to load external data in your Flash, you maybe run better without a wrapper.

In any case, I am unable to reply to issues which involve Flash and HTML beyond the obvious.

If you have HTML and/or Flash issues, please contact your developer. If testing on a simple HTML page works (as suggested in the help), it must work also in the product. If it doesn't, there is nothing I can do about it.

Please make the default banners run first. Then try to duplicate and modify one. Eventually watch the Flash help.

The URL is the landing page. If it doesn't work, of course the user shows a 404 page. I don't know what you mean with right clicking. When rendered, the HTML and image behaves just the same as a normal HTML code.