I love this hack.

Can someone tell me how on the forumhome page only though, to get the "What's Going On?" and Forum Contains New Posts, Forum Contains No New Posts, Forum is Closed for Posting , and log out to be full width? It would help clean up my board....

i wanted to ask
is that what if you want two or 3 divided boxes instead of one long one that this hack gives

is it possible

Anyone know how to do this??????

Hello ,

I need to add the AddColum in Showtheard page , How can i do that ,

Regards

It is working on showthread! Maybe you'll install it again.

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One question:

How can I disable the right column on forumhome? I only want the right side to be seen on forumdisplay and showthread. Any ideas?

TIA + regards,

adusei

in 3.0.1 no show column

no problem :nervous:

Just as an FYI - anyone considering installing vBadvanced CMPS, there is a conflit of some type that puts the ad column on the vBadvanced CMPS page as well.

The easiest way to take care of this would probably be with an if condition.
Find the variable or code for the ad column in your footer template and add this before it:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'adv_index'">

Then add this after it:

</if>

That should disable the ad column on your homepage.

Trying to run the installer, I'm getting:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO settinggroup (grouptitle, displayorder, volatile) VALUES ('adcolumn', '600', 1)

mysql error: Duplicate entry 'adcolumn' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Monday 17th of May 2004 04:45:55 PM
Script: http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/..._adcolumns.php
Referer: http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/..._adcolumns.php

Any support on this?

Can you only make this appear in certain forums?

Anyone?????????????

First I want to say thanks, this is a great hack and I put 160 x 600 googleads in the left one and finally the forum pays for itself.

How can I put the latest poll in the other one.....

anyone get this to work on the FORUM HOME page only?

Hi guys!

Well, I have a problem. I installed it and all went very smooth so far. I activated it and I got the spaces on the right and left columns. However, it would not display anything!!!!

I am not very good at this I have to admit!

Can someone help? Can someone give me an html example?

Thanks!

Ok, all works!

Very nice! :)

doesnt work here error during installation:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO phrase (languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (0, 'settinggroup_adcolumn', 'Advertisement Column(s)', 5000)

mysql error: Duplicate entry 'settinggroup_adcolumn-0-5000' for key 2

mysql error number: 1062

Hack works great, thanks :)

With this, is it possible to add additional columns above or below the left & right?

TIA :)

Will the columns stay there throughout the forums, or only at forumhome?

This is a great hack but I need to uninstall it for the time being.

How do I delete the 2 templates it added?

And I reversed the changes to global.php and the advertisement options still shows up in AdminCP..

Hoping that this works with 3.0.1. I've got it installed, however, it's not displaying anything. It does create the tables correctly, and I can turn it on and off. Can someone please provide guidance with this one?

Neat hack. It works on a vB 3.0.1 test install.

Wish List:
1 - Unique columns for each (sub)-forum
2 - Multiple content blocks per column
3 - Admin controls to manage above

Appears to be an abandoned hack at this point.
Oh well . . .

I love this hack. I recently upgraded to vb3.0.3 and it is not working anymore. All the custom templates are there, all the code in header and footer are there. Also in global.php. What am I missing? someone help please. I went into vbulletin options under Admincp and the advertising columns is also there but it is blank. How do I fix this? Thanks.

So it sometimes goes... Nice hack - 2.0 sounded like it would really be nice.

NE body have any suggestions??

When I try to re-run the install script I get the following Error..Cmon someone help me out.

How can I remove the previous install in the db so that i can redo it?

What file do you use or should I say "Where" do you add your HTML for banners and other functions

It creates two templates for you. Right and left adcolumn. You go in there and add all your code. Really easy.

I think you can just drop the extra tables with something like phpMyAdmin.

I'd be too afraid to mess something up. I went in there and see a couple of templates that have the adcolumn code in it. but don't know enough to know what remove or fix to make them work again.. :o

I tried this, can someone make sure I have all the files there ? or is it missing something?

DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'settinggroup_adcolumn' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adenable_title' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adenable_desc' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adleft_title' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adleft_desc' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adright_desc' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adtitleleft_title' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adtitleleft_desc' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adtitleright_title' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `phrase` WHERE `varname` = 'setting_adtitleright_desc' LIMIT 1;

DELETE FROM `settinggroup` WHERE `grouptitle` = 'adcolumn' LIMIT 1;

DELETE FROM `setting` WHERE `varname` = 'adenable' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `setting` WHERE `varname` = 'adleft' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `setting` WHERE `varname` = 'adright' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `setting` WHERE `varname` = 'adtitleleft' LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM `setting` WHERE `varname` = 'adtitleright' LIMIT 1;

I have tried over and over to make changes to the template and my chnges never show... ANy suggestions... This is the default left column template..

<br />
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" style="width:100%">
<tr align="center">
<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vboptions[adtitleleft]</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">LEFT</td>
TEST TEST TEST SHOW TEXT

</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />

I have also just tried regular HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>this is a test</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

And still nothing shows up, what am I doing wrong

Reseller I wish I could help. I am in dire need of help my self. I need to get this running asap, for I have several paying sponsors.. I just need to know how to completely remove it so that I can re run the install script.. That is all.

Stupid question, but did you save the settings under vbulletin options/ Adcolumn settings? So that it displays ? Make sure its turned on..

I will paypal someone 5 dollars in they can help me fix this.. :devious:

Yes, I do have this on... :)

Hmmm. Wish I knew what I was doing so I could fix your issue and mine also.. Cmon people, someone out there have a hart... Help some brothas out.. :squareeyed:

I'll paypal you $25 if you help me fix it.. cmon people.

Not sure if anyone has played with the layout but my experience is whenever you add a left (or right) hand column to the forums board for ads, etc, the main board gets skewed in it's appearance. Especially if you have good descriptions of the individal forums. Things get skrunched and off kilter. Anyone come up with just the right adjustmenst so as not to lose info but make it look good?



If yes, can you post your site and how you did it?

I optimize for 800x600