Gotta second the idea of a sortable list. Once you get much beyond 5 ads it gets really hard to find specific ones.

Is there a way to connect this with the sbscription feature so that advertisers banners are based on the amound of time they signed up for in the vb subscrition page?

Thanks for the tips :)

The banners in fact can be excluded or included by using style conditionals.

The banner overview will come soon, and the subscriptions are a nice idea. Then it would also need a user interface for the service buyer in order to setup the subscription ... can you please elaborate a bit how you would like to see it as a customer?

Nice tool, thanks a lot.

I am using it slightly differently, I have only 2 ad locations I want to show rotating banners, a 235x60 in the header and a 468x60 in the footer.

I use the standard Horizontal placeholder "@vbbanners@" for any header ads, and the "@vbbanners_vertical@" for any footer ads, ticking "vertical" in the ad set-up, even though the ads are not vertical it seems to work.

Cool :-)


www.acorndomains.co.uk

Kudos to you, great hack!! Much better than the previous one I was using which was limited to about 10 banners max.

Installed and using, with a lot more ease than before so thanks :D

Sure.
Ultimately When a potential advertiser clicks on our ADVERTISE WITH US link either in the forum our on our home page, it will go to the subscriptions options page with all the drop down menus.

We might have... 4 options for advertisors, each with its own drop down menu and subscription length options.

Once a vendor selects the option they want, and the length of time they want from the drop down menu, they should be given the opportunity to upload a banner. Either by way of URL or by browsing their computer files. This banner upload feature can be before or after payment. Whatever is easiest for you.

The proceed with payment like normal. Our Merchant is paypal so thats where they go.
Once paid, their banner is inserted in to the rotator and the setting are based on the option and length of time they signed up for.

That would be ideal.
This way
Banners are only up while they pay for the feature. Soon as the subscription is expired or cancelled, the banner comes down, and we ans well as the vendor get a notification.

This way however you would need also vendor handling. As vBulletin works, there is only one vendor: the board owner, and all subscription payments go to one account. Also there is no way to tell the number of items you buy, all vBulletin subscriptions are limited by time only and each additional subscription adds only time.

To make it work for more vendors, the whole payment and subscription should work differently, more like in an auction. Then it would be also more easy to define other criterias, such as how many banners you could insert for the chosen period. Well, if the vendors are listed in a similar table as the banners and the rules are not too many, it should be possible to make it. The payment ID returned to both the board and the buyer will make that a sort of ticket, to allow one or more banner uploads.

The problems I see are the setup which is left to the buyer and the possible implications if they are using scripts, like messing up your pages or installing spyware and worms. Maybe scripts shouldn't be available, right? :)

I have to think a little about it ... ;)

Please keep me posted. I am very interested in this type of product

I am running photoposts classifieds program and for some reason the banner doesn't show in the header there but i can see the code. Any suggestions?

http://www.dezertrangers.com/classifieds

Thanks

I would suggest to replace the @vbbanners@ placeholder (vBulletin Options, bottom) with something like <!-- @banner@ --> (HTML Comment) in order to hide advertising in scripts which eventually don't call the vBulletin standard page closure, and thus jump over the global_complete hook.