sorry i editing my post above..

Sorry, kinda of a newb, lol, but let me get this straight. I can pretty much have a banner on different forums right?

So like on my site http://www.digitalsportscene.com/forum/forum.php , I could have a banner for the NBA section, MLB section, NFL section, NHL section, etc? Or am I completely reading this wrong? lol

Works on 4.1.0 pl2 perfect but nowhere to be seen on 4.1.6.

Maybe because you reverted the templates? ;)

Perfectly right :)

I don't know. Probably nothing. I depends also on the HTML you have in the "Text" field.

Working well so far. Thank you for creating the hack..

I finally upgraded to 417 and I'm happy to report my ad_showthread_firstpost is still there and working, showing a banner after the first post on each page. Whew!

guess that is why it doesn't work for me on 4.1.6.

Trying to install this mod, but when I try to import the xml file I get:

I've uploaded everything I should have to the correct area. What am I supposed to do now?

Then, most probably your eb server can't access the files. Please check the access rights ;)

I am using this as a logo rotator.

I had trouble getting ad_header_logo to do anything, so I gave up on it and am instead using the header template. I replaced

with

All done!

That was maybe a little too short-cut :)

This maybe works better:

i can see the panels: "Rotating Banner System", "baner system options". i did everything proprely and i see no ads at all.
i have vb 4.1.7, i saw in the previous page someone says it's work on vb 4.1.7.

You will have to make also template changes. This product isn't using default ad locations. And yes, it works from 3.6.5 to 4.1.7 :)

edit:
look at the next post, 2 posts below that one.

is there a way to have say 80 banners in a folder and point to that folder and have the banners rotate from there?

i check the software again, i didn't notice little options works, cause i try some options and didn't work, therefore i thought it didn't work.
i try: "ad thread last post content" look for ads on the thread, nothing.
i try: "ad thread first post content"- the same.
ad forum below threadlist- the same.

No. You may have N banners in the database and one "location" in the templates you have chosen, and all will rotate in this location.

There is no such thing as picking images from the file system at random intervals, although it is quite a nice idea :)

Please try simply the example shown in the movie in the very first post (How-to create my first banner). It gives you a good insight how things work and from where to start.

Besides the included help file, this thread is full of practical examples ;)

i didn't say it's not working, cause it's working, but some option doesn't work, example:
i try: "ad thread last post content" look for ads on the thread, nothing.

Here is a simple way to add your banners in a CMS widget.

You will need to create a PHP Execution by doing the following:

Step 1:

1. In the admincp go to vBulletin CMS>Widgets
2. Click on "Create New Widget" at the bottom.
3. Choose "PHP Direct Execution" in the Widget Type drop down at the top.
4. Give your widget a title - do not make it too long as your box will be whatever size you have in your CMS.
5. Now click the "Save" button.

Step 2:

1. Go to vBulletin CMS>Widgets and select the widget you just made.
2. Click on the "Configure" link all the way to the right.
3. Delete all the test inside the box when it pops up.
4. Place this code in the box:

5. Now click the "Save" button.

Step 3:

1. Go to Styles & Templates>Style Manager click the drop down box on the right side and choose "Add New Template".
2. In the "Title" box put "banner_sidebar" without the quotes.
3. Now in the large box below place your code for your banners like you would any other template. For instance I put this:

I'm using vBSEO so that is why it may look different from yours.

4. Now click the "Save" button.

Step 4:

1. Enter your banner info using the positions that you put code to in your new template and save the banners.

See this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1542

Some options need additional work to do, which however have nothing to do with my plugin.

For example, the inbuilt ad locations of vbulletin require you to define additional rules from within Advertising, else they will not show at all. In these definitions you would use then the RBS placeholders instead of other HTML and everything works out just fine :)

Very nice! :up:

I need to exclude the banners from a specific mobile style. What's the simplest way to do this?

If your banner locations are defined in the Master style, probably it will need moving them into the single styles.

I imagine however, you are using the advertising ... then maybe selecting the style will help.

Selecting the style isn't helpful because you can only select one. I only want to EXCLUDE one.

But this worked. I edited the RBS Banner Insertion plugin as follows:

I inserted

at the top of the "Banner Insertion" plugin and

at the very bottom.

May I suggest that an option to exclude certain styles might be added in a new version?

I don't think so ... :)

I would have made for each style an ad, instead, if I really had to, or rather not used the ad system at all and modified the relative templates in a way that I could do without it. As a matter of fact, using the ad system slows down the forums quite a bit ... it is useful and simple, but not a long term solution for heavily loaded systems ;)

@all

I soon will review the code and add a few features. Is there anything you may wish to add?

Can anyone help me display the banners? I have installed the program but can't figure out what to do from here..

It is enabled

Position 0

URL: I have added the URL of the banner here

Image / Flash: I have left this blank

Click tracking is enabled

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated..

Also, I don't know what position 0-9 actually mean or where the banner would be displayed...or do I need to somehow set these parameters?

Today i have another sponsor that give-me a Flash and the flash dont run in this plugin.

This is the secound time, can you check please.

I send an PM with more detail informations about the Banner SWF/HTML Code.

If you need FLA please say, this is a normal SWF with actionscript 1.0

I can't recall now what sort of "banner events" trigger emails. But if one of them is expiration, an option to send a reminder x days before expiration would be nice. I can't think of any other "banner event" anyone would need an email for.

As it is now I have to maintain a separate "Sponsors" calendar and use it to send me a reminder a few days beforehand.

TIA

Still looking for help.. :)

y2ksw has got to be one of the more involved developers in vb right now. I've sort of stopped answering questions here because he's so quick to jump in with answers himself. Just wait until you try some other mods where they never answer (e.g. anything from Valter).

In your case the first thing I would ask is have you tried placing your ad using the default vb system first? When you get that working, then try swapping the placeholder for it.

I'm currently very busy and I have no quick solutions at hand. I would need to see myself but for this I have no time.

I know that not literally all flash files run. But in this case you just paste your object code into the text field and handle the whole as if it was normal HTML.

Of course you will need to insert an image URL ... else, people would click on the "sheet" with noting on it.

I tried it on my site and it works:

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The red thingy is your banner.

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And these are the settings. So if you have a size, you will need to tell it ... the wrapper does no guesswork ;)