Have you been running this ad for a year or is it new?

This is a new ad.

It's your ad not the mod. You need to redo it and set the time delays longer for each frame.

If it is my flash file, why does it behave differently under the RBS banner and direct mode ?
Is browser not expected to use the same timer in both cases ?

My doubt is if RBS banner ignores the fps or time delays and uses its own.

The wrapper does nothing to the imported files.

It just makes it possible to define a different landing page from what is implemented into the file, and removes also a z-order annoyance (menues behind flash). You may however use your own code and put it into the Text field.

I am trying to instal this, but getting an error:
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Please upload the files that came with the product before installing or upgrading!

Missing files:
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there is nothing after missing files, and I have uploaded the files and checked permissions, any help?

I am on 4.1.11

Please check the file permissions. The uploaded files should have the same permissions as any other file for your web application/vbulletin.

Had a problem getting this working and y2ksw got it all set up for me. A great guy and a great mod. I cant express my thanks enough.

HI, I recently installed the mod a week ago and am really enjoying the interface and information it provides. It really is imperative for rolling out unique banner ads.

I've been having a strange problem though. With the plugin installed and enabled some threads display the wrong last post and as such the sorting for threads is wrong. Users are still able to post and said posts display in the thread but do not show up as counted.

I have already rebuilt counters several times and so far it looks like the only fix so far has been to disable RBS.

Any thoughts?

The plugin does nothing to posts or threads. The only idea I have about is the banner HTML ... if you use scripted banners. We had problems with a few exotic banner platforms mixing up variables with Google Analytics and thus making work or the one or the other.

Ok so hack installed but regarding the screen shots showing the hack one of them clearly shows a banner directly opposite the vbulletin default logo, I'm having great problems getting this to match this screen shot, obviously the code for the banner is placed in the navbar / header template but my limited understanding means I'm stuck.

Could someone please point me in the right direction?

The code should be placed in the appropriate "ad location" area.
Try ad_global_header1 or 2

Tried them previously, each time they bump to the bottom of the header and cause my header to extend to a degree I can't use....

Make sure banner is not over the 468x60 size. I've actually had to resize one just undersized to keep it from shoving the template out of place.

Sadly the same result, banner checked and it is def 468x58 so should be ok.

default style?

No, I'll try that now...

Works on the default style all be it the banner is directly beside the logo....

In the right direction now I think..

Thanks

Good deal.

Still looking for information on my issue:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2116

Why does the start and stop times auto-increment by an hour every time the banner is saved? This doesn't seem like a proper feature, I want to set the hour and minutes exactly the way I want, it doesn't make sense for the times to change on their own.

Thoughts?

I am clueless :(
I install the module in the control panel. Set it to on to show the developer's ads but not sure where to put the code.
Does <!--@vbbanners:%d@--> goes somewhere, right?
I'm not good at this stuff.

You need to follow the last few instructions given to me, find the template which is pre fixed ad_.... for the location you want your ads to appear copy the copy in there but edit the %d to the location where you have placed it i.e. <!--@vbbanners:0@--> for position 0 banners as per your list.

That helps, Thanks :-)

I got it going below the nav bar but I'm not sure where to tell it to be centered.

Wait, I got it centered. Woo hooo!!

Hi,

We have just kicked off a forum and want to get some banner adverts in place. A quick search has brought me to this page which seems to tick all the boxes for what we want.

We are running VB 4.2.0 on xampp on a Windows 2008 R2 server

Are there any issues that we need to be aware of? The current skin is Modern Blue from PureVB which limits slots to 1 top banner and 1 footer banner and we have at least 12 advertisers lined up already.

Regards

Gareth

This is a server issue, where the database server runs on a different time or time zone than the web server. Your hosting provider should really use NTP in order to keep the date/time aligned and use the same time zone on all servers.

We use this:

Just keep kickin' :)

Use one placeholder/location on top and footer and the 12 banners will rotate on that.

I just installed the latest version of this mod on my vb.4.2, but get an error in the control panel says there is an error. The side menu disappear till I disable this mod...!!

any ideas??

Thanks in advance.

P.S: where do we place the Addon folder?? it could be the cause of this issue!

Please read the installing instructions. If you are new to vBulletin, you should first install other plugins and get used to the plugin system.

This product/plugin does nothing to your board, styles and whatsoever. After uploading make sure the uploaded files have the right permissions.

Thanks mate for the comments.

I will try installing previous versions first and see how things go.

Thanks again.:)

BTW, where do I find the installing instructions?

what I did was uploading the files to my vb folder like: whatever inside upload folder uploaded to my vb folder. And then the addon folder to the vb root folder where it appears in the main folders' tree... is that correct?

OK after installing all versions one by one, the mod works great. Thanks a lot.

hi..

i hope in the next release, you put "Expired Time" list inside the banner list menu.

right now banner list menu already have "ID, Name, Position, Impressions, Clicks"

the purpose is, we dont need to open one by one just to check when the banner time expired.

thanks alot for this great addon

I have recently installed Google AdSense. I notice that the impressions displayed in my AdSense account are significantly less (10 TIMES LESS!!!!) than the impressions the RBS is reporting.

In short, AdSense tells me I've only served a total of 128,000 ad impressions, but RBS tells me that I've delivered way over ONE MILLION ad impressions in total.

What's going on here, and how do I fix it??? Is RBS counting bots or something?

The addon is an addon which contains special (and unsupported features) files normally not needed and thus not installed :)

The installation instructions are contained in the PDF file, which also informs about the features of this product.

There is no need to fix it. The Google AdSense counts are at most approximate, and will not consider some devices. Please make sure you understand what Google AdSense does and what not. It does not do quite a lot :)

RBS counts also half viewed pages where people are in too much hurry to wait and counts also all visits from spiders which eventually show banners. Google does exclude its own visits. So if your site is visited from more spiders than real visitors, the counts may seem exaggerated, but in fact, they are precise as a swiss clock.

This makes sense, buy my server hosts both the MySQL and the forum. I mean, it's the same server, same user. I have a dedicated server for the forum and database.

Do I need to change the timezone in vBulletin itself, or in the MySQL server itself? Or in Apache? Or do I have to change settings in all of them to the same setting?

Thanks!

It needs the MySQL Server and the server itself to run on the same timezone. Normally, this is automatic. If you have problems with DST or if the visitor time differs from your personal settings, you need to set the timezone of vbulletin, until these times match. If you have server access, the visitor time should match the date/time of the server's date command of the user who runs Apache.

Personally, I leave the DST settings of vbulletin alone (disabled), but change twice a year its timezone. Noticeably, the times in the MySQL records differ from the times I see in the Banner's ACP, but the banners show and hide correctly, and don't shift while saving.

Thanks for this mod!

I have VB 4.2 with VBSEO.

When I put @vbbanners:0@ in my template, my test banner shows perfectly.

When I put @vbbanners:%d@ in my template, I see no banner, only the text is shown back to me: @vbbanners:%d@

Do you have advice to make %d work?

You have to use @vbbanners:0@ ... @vbbanners:9@ in your templates. %d is the number (0-9) in the placeholder (options).