While adding some of the already requested features, revisiting the code, taking notes for the bloody beginners guide and general brainstorming, this is the one of the few occasions to get your 'last minute' smart features added.

Fore the next (coming) release we have:
+ 3 new options for disabling counters and squeeze a tiny bit of performance.
+ default banners locked into database; avoids me to explain how to get banners running and waste my time, while the 'experts' have them already deleted :); they can be modified though.
+ unsigned integers for all those database values which can't be less than 0.
+ external functions file adds php caching if there is one, thus enhances loading and esecution speed and generally reduces memory footprint a little; also solves the rare problem where functions are loaded twice.
+ width and height (if > 0) for img tags.

We won't add now:
- native in-place rotating, because it would add too many new options and a lot of questions I may not answer to.
- image rotation from a folder (N images for 1 banner). it was a nice idea, but unefficient in real live; maybe another time.
- style exclusion; there is no efficient way to know which style is running while handling the final output.
- section exclusion; would be another good reason why banners would not show up at all.
- banner payment, all the related front- and backend forms, scheduling and mails.

Checked:
- mailing feature: works! but it has also a relative option which must be enabled, and a cronjob which must be enabled, too.

BTW, I'm currently changing my publisher ID, thus the default banners may not show before the new release.

Feature requests:

• Change the text from "Please list here one or more mail addresses to inform about banner events." to "A list of email addresses that will receive expiration notices".
• Add an option to send expiration notices x days prior to expiration.
• Add links to the phrase with the body and subject of the expiration emails.
• Clarify option/text "Reset Notifications - If this option is checked, email notifications are enabled again.". There is no apparent reason expiration emails should be disabled, and no option to do it manually, so there's no need to 'enable them again'.

Feature request:

Banner List > Able to sort the list by position number

thank you

When do you anticipate the new release to be available?

This quit working for me when upgrade to 4.1.11. Anyone else having issues?

I'm waiting for my Google Publisher Code. Until then, I can't publish the upgrade, the default banners will not show up and it may look as if it doesn't work - but it surely is :)

I upgraded from 4.1.10 to 4.1.11, and all is well here. Granted, I'm just using png files with links - not adsense.

for some reason the banners, even though have the correct url, are linking to:

"http://www.forumname.com/forum/www.f...?id=3&userid=1"
Thoughts?

(site name changed for this post)

Yes, banners are not linking to url, it adds a 2nd link, like this "www.forumname.com/forum/www.forumname.com/forum/rbs_banner.php?id=3&userid=1"

Hmm

Possibility to exclude/include each single Banner-ID from CMS, Blog,Forum,Forumhome by radio buttons would be fine if there is a reasonable way for doing so :up:

bsponer, try to use the textfield and put Banner code in there, instead of the URL and Image field.
That should fix it temporary until its solved. (might be than the click counter will not work...) ;)

This new time feature where it sends out emails before the banners expire is definitely not working for me on 3.8.5. It works fine if I set it to 0, but I've tried both 7 days and 14 days but no emails get sent out.

Try to use full URL's ... maybe you have changed your canonical URL settings or bburl?

Added to wish-list :)

I'll check it again.

There needs to be a reminder/link for this setting in the spot where we enter the email addresses, if it's going to be off in a separate Settings>Options page. The last time I set up a banner I completely forgot this setting existed and that I had set it to 7 days long ago. Sorry I have no idea yet if it actually works as my newest banners won't expire for a while.

Hi,

Mod is very good.

But (maybe that was asked in the 100 comments pages before) my problem is, that the div of the banner splits the threadview in half and takes a lot of place. So the text of the post itself (and of the followning posts without banner) are very narrow displayed.

How can i workout, that the text is floating around the banner?

Thanks for help!

Bye
René

make sure you have the http: in the box

"http://www.forumname.com"

I had wrong Google Pub id in the banner ad. Changed it and no more issues.

Thanks for great Mod and helpful people!

Cheers

The banner div is only an example. You may use any HTML and physical location for your banners.

this doesn't work, just displays the actual url not the image

Edit oh, ok, html code, I did that, and it works, see below. Thanks for the workaround!
and this seems to work

Sorry, not sure what you mean by changed your canonical URL settings.
I use full urls in the URL field

Thanks, I've had it set back on 0 but now today I got an email for a banner that expired 5 days ago? Anyway, I would really appreciate it if you could look into it. Thank you.

There's a way to display a banner in a certain date?

I still have this problem with all my sites, the banner does not go to the URL it adds
It keeps doing this

I can't do anything to show the banner, I put <!--@vbbanners:0@--> or <!--@vbbanners:0--> in the ad_navbar_below or ad_footer_start and nothing, it doesn't show anyone image, I don't know if I have to put other choise in the code, or what I doing wrong? because I search in the video-tutorial and nothing :S
someone can help me please?

Great mod. Really easy to use. Thank you.

I have one suggestion though, and that's a dropdown to allow "target" for the url. This would be really neat as some ads are for internal threads, others are for external sites etc.

Currently I'm doing it in the additional text field which is OK, but for ease of use it'd be nice to have this.

Great work otherwise!

Hello. Thanks for the mod. I rename the folder 'admincp' by 'england2010'. A part of the name of the folder 'admincp' I downloaded renamed 'england2010', do I have to change the name somewhere else?

thank you very much

Thanks for the mod!!

Yes, just set the start and end date and time accordingly.

Please have a tiny bit more patience (a few days). A few days ago I got my new publisher code and I'm now testing the new release, which comes with a new set of working demo banners. The old demo banners won't work right now.

I don't see a good way to store landing pages anywhere ... isn't intellisense of your browser good enough?

No, the installation reads the admincp destination from your configuration, thus renaming the package admincp folder should be just fine.

For some unknown reason, sometimes $vbulletin->options['bburl'] translates to these or worse combinations. I solved this issue by using a global replacement (styles) where I would translate 'www.mustanggenerations.com/forum/www.mustanggenerations.com/forum/' to 'www.mustanggenerations.com/forum/'.

I believe it has to do with the Friendly URL settings and Canonical URL's, but I'm not sure about it, nor was I able to reproduce the problem.

I want to put in header the banner, but i see the header and the banner. Can i select just the banner?

I've installed this and followed all the directions but it's still not showing at my forum. Help?

Sorry maybe I didn't make my suggestion clear. I'll try again.

When setting up an advert, you are prompted for imageurl and url

currently the output is something like:


The 'target' should be a variable - so that one can select _blank, _self etc.

Thanks for responding. For some reason it does not work. I have version 4.1.10 and reviewing past posts there is only one small mention of this version. They can confirm if it works for 4.1.10?
thanks

This mod doesn't actually use vb much at all (except for the admincp page), so it works with all versions. Your original question was very confusing and made no sense, having to do with renaming folders or something.