For those of you who have this installed... is this working well for you? I'm tempted to install, but need to verify that it works well and without sacrificing the speed of my site.

Comments and feedback appreciated.

Trafix,

I installed your hack without any problems. I made the edits as posted on page 1 to eliminate the extra queries (as I have many forums) - so now everything works semi-okay.

I don't get any banners in the Forumdisplay and showthread pages at all when I use the tag in my $header template as opposed to in the actual page after the $header... Why is that? I'd really prefer it this way so the design of my page wouldn't be compromised.

Also, the banner is in the bannerbank. How could I mod it so this could be done?

http://www.basketballboards.net/forum/images/wanted.gif - How I want it to look.

http://www.basketballboards.net/foru...s/unwanted.gif - How it looks.

I would also like something for the header before I install this :)

BTW, how many queries does this add? Oo;?

dude traffix is your man. i have it installed and it works like a charm. no problems at all. it doesnt slow my boards, and i must say is one of the coolest hacks i have install in my boards. if you need to have ads and using banners in your vb this is the best one. have try them all. have even try 3rd party but this one. omg it owns especially the administration you have.

i would recommend installing this one 100%

I installed, and I must say it is simply awesome. I did remove the sponsored by under the names on forumhome, but that was more for asthetics than anything else. It did not slow the forum down at all.
The one thing that I did notice is that unless you specify a banner for a forum, the banner bank will show the last banner you put into the bank the most. 75% of the time or more. I would love to see the banners rotate within a page view rather than on page load and randomized.
Other than that, once a banner is specified to a forum it works like a charm! One of the absolute best I must say. We've actually had an advertiser tell us they even liked it! Doesn't get much better than that.
I did some changing of font colors and the like, but nothing really to change the program on its own merits. All in all a 5 star program for sure!
If you would like to see this program in action working quite well, here it is: http://www.theladiesconnection.com/v...load/index.php just click on any forum, and there it will be.
Also one of the absolute best for support and assistance around! Can't say enough about this program and the creator!! :D :banana:

trafix, can this be used as a footer banner throughout one's site?

Sorry, I havnt responded sooner guys!

Firstly, thanks for your raves :)

@ vb-host

Year sure you can put them at the top and the bottom if you want!

Its just a matter if where you put the strings "$showthisad" and "$showthisad2"

@ RetroDreams

Sorry i mis-understood your earlier point.
NO, banners dont self rotate in forums, i left this out on purpose as it realy guves advertising clients fasle stats. say somebody is surfing around your site and the phone rings ... he is talking for an hour, your window is still open but he might bo off elsewhere doing other things on the internet .... what happens...the banners still rotate and clock up the impressions .... but the guy on the phone isnt looking at it. it is my opionion that this provides you advertisers with fasle stats.

I intend to do a version 2 of this in the future, but I have spent the last 2 weeks on my VB Trader hack and stage i is so close to being released, i cant wait :) (its bloody huge)

No, I wasn't talking about rotating... I just wanted to know why I couldn't use it in the header as opposed to not in the header? The ads don't show up when I place the $showthisad in the header... it's just blank.

See my pictures for what I'm talking about.

Ok, first off, great hack! I think this is probably one of the finest hacks yet! Simple, elegant and EXTREMELY effective. Thanks.

Guidster clicks install!!

Trafix,
I sent you a PM about the possibility of integrating Arrow Ads into the Xenon/Skuzzy search engine spider archive to take advantage of the product exposure this would make possible.

Anyone else share this thought that it would be a excellent place to capitalize on the raw traffic brought to the site by the search engines and spiders? On my forums, this would mean that a couple of thousand unique visitors would view the ad and mostly unregistered traffic at that!

Firstly, im sorry for not giving replies here for a while as i have been so flat out on VB TRADER.

@ Guidster

Did you manage to fix your problem??

Secondly, I want to thank everyone for their responses and great raves :)

The future of Arrow Ads.....

I am planning some big things for arrow ads..

1) Change the banner url to image upload instead of direct link.

2) Make the banner modifyable by the advertiser. They will be able to activate / de-activate the banner of change the banner image if required.

3) The intergration of VB Trader. I will build an addon so members can pay by Paypal for their advertising costs and then once they have paid, they will then be able to upload their banner to the arrow ads system so once they have finished the banner will be automaticly added to the banner bank :)

Less work and more money for you :cool:

If they want to sponsor a foum or php file you will still have to do that manualy.

Trafix

I was not really reporting a problem, I am just trying to integrate Arrow Ads into the Archive Hack by Xenon and Skuzzy as I get at least 1000 visitors to my archive per day. These are views and potential clicks that I would like to capitalize on.

This hack uses a couple of php files to feed search engine spiders .html instead of dynamic content. As a result, many people come to the archive. Just trying to leverage some more exposure for my advertisers.

Thanks,

Ok I will look into that intergration with the next version of arrow ads :)

With the intergration of VB Trader and arrow ads simply means that I have to do some updating of the arrow ads code.

Arrow Ads will still be free

The intergration coding to allow your members to buy, upload and activate their own banners will all be added to VB Trader.

I have a problem. I don't want any forum specific banners. I added them all to the banenr bank it doesn't rotate evenly at all. Can you help me? I have another VB where it does work fine so I know I installed it correctly. Could another hack be affecting it? I made sure to completely remove VB_Advert Management.

The whole reason I installed this hack was because the VB_Advert management stopped rotating the ads. I'm so frustrated right now.

My board is http://forums.montrealracing.com

Thanks

Here is a sample of stats for about 2 hours:

http://forums.montrealracing.com/images/misc/arrow1.jpg


http://forums.montrealracing.com/images/misc/arrow2.jpg

hmmm,

Ok so you have 1 version working properly and another that is not .....

I dont think it would be affected by other hacks.

The only thing I could put it down to is maybe the version of php that the server is running.

The system on my site works fine, however others have reported similar problems as you have. The version of php running ion the server could affect the random adility but im not totly sure.

trafix : Can you give the hack capability to serve HTML ads also ?? like the ones we see on site point forums.

UPDATE - changes- 26/05/03
Basicly we are changing the "date added" to "date expired"
to upgrade will take you 5 mins. This is being done to make it easies to see when your ads expire and will be required for the new Arrow ads / VB Trader intergration hack to allow banners to be auto active upon payment via paypal .

The last thing you need to do is add this code to link to your stats page,

<a href="userreport.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Add Stats</a>

---- What is this and where does it go?

ok this is a link to where banner owners can view their banner stats.

you can put this whereever you like, maybe in the use cp or the footer. Maybe you have a list of members links.

Is there a way I can use a simple code to place banners anywhere I want instead of fixed positions? ie- something like $bannerhere ... that way I can sort of mix them up using the same code in between posts, in the header, and even use the sig mod to add them to some usergroups' sigs.

For instance, I see:

$showsponsorforumbit
$showthisad

Is $showthisad just the universal code for the banner bank? I won't be using forum sponsors, forum-specific banners, etc etc. Just a banner bank with maybe a rotation of 8-10 banners. Is $showthisad the only one I need to add to the header, postbit, sigs, etc etc? thanks :)

you can ust the "$showthisad2" anywhere (in theory)

thanks :) $showthisad2 with a 2 at the end as opposed to the $showthisad one?

yep the same string as you put in the header

thnx a million

i found this. Mabye it has something to do with my randomization problem.


http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Mathematical_functions.html
"As of MySQL 3.23.52, MySQL changed the way
RAND() functions, such that you MUST supply a
SEED to get an actual random number. If you do
not, each new connection will return close to the
same number as the previous new connection. An
example to test this would be to run the follow
command multiple times in a row. mysql -u
username -p -e'select rand()' A basic way to seed
this would be to run RAND(NOW())."

... maybe that's why !?

i tried it manually with rand(now()) and it always returns ad # 11 .. so
that's no good either

anyone?

It was my mysql version.

Are there banner hack for VB3 betta?

apparently...

VB3 Gold may have optional banners advertising

Do you think this hack can be adapted to vb3?

i just have one question. what is the forum id for the index.php page?

I want to have a banner placed at the main index.php page when users enter the forum.

What does this mean?

EDIT: And how can I move where the ad is at? I'd like it to be in the right corner, above the buttons.

never mind i firgured it out. I thought the banner would be placed in the forum in which the sponsor was placed.

so there is no banner option for vb3 yet?

I am trying to install this hack and I keep running into this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/tony/www/xxxxxx.net/forums/admin/arrowadsquery.php on line 62

I have gone over everything at least 10 times and I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Is there a way to make this show random banners?

Thanks

Paul

No i will not be porting this for vb3 ..... It is roumered that vb3 gold will have banners as a standard feature :)

with the rumor squashed, any chance of getting this for VB3 or someone that had permission that has already done it?

hmmm, i can think about it ... but my paying clients come first, I have quite a bit on atm

I have this installed and it worked great for awhile, but now all my banners are showing up as red x's - any idea why it might be doing this ?

I've checked and the links to the banners are valid - even tried adding a new banner in a forum and it still comes up as a red x