the default/preloaded sample ads work ok, but when creating new ads and saving them im getting error:
any ideas why? please explain in detail (noob here)

Thanks, bug is fixed in version 2.0.9 :)

To update, just overwrite xml or also upload on forum folder all files?

admincp/admin_rbs.php, plus import new product for version update.

OK.
I've overwrite admincp/admin_rbs.php, and overwrite product...
Everything look OK
Grazie form Croatia

Hi,

Just to report that the upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.9 messed up the whole thing. The banners went like crazy, showing up at the top, even the vertical banners. It seems the upgrade is affecting the main template somehow.

I had to downgrade back to 2.0.6 to get this fixed.

Regards.

installed latest version 2.0.9
newly created ads are not showing. not getting an any errors, they are just not showing

im not sure if its the ad ID 4 and over ( ie ad id 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.) that is the problme and are not showing , or if there is a differnet issue going on

later on:
i deleted all the preloaded ads
created new ones
and they are not showing

thanks

Awesome Hack! Clicked Install! :)

Please restart :)

I believe you just installed the product and attend the ads to appear magically on your forums. Well, this isn't the way it works ;)

Install the product and keep the preinstalled ads. These are guaranteed to work everywhere. Then, write a message in a test area, and put @vbbanners@ inside the text. After saving, there should be a banner. If there isn't any, you are doing something wrong, e.g. check the spelling, verify you actually have active and enabled banners for the desired placeholder, refresh the page.

Once the ads start to show up, refine with user groups and forums selection, until you get what you want. Also you may add your own banners and copy some of the settings.

Then, add to your templates the @vbbanners@ placeholder, or the placeholder you have defined in the Rotating Banner System Options.

I have the vBIspy hack installed and the banners are not showing on this page, it just shows @vbbanners@, any idea on how to fix this? Not a major problem and I'm not too concerned about it, just if there's a quick fix to it then I would appreciate it, thanks :)

This is the link to the hack I am talking about
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125947

I'm running 3.6.12 and v2.0.6 of your hack.

You may define a different placeholder in the options, such as a HTML comment, e.g. <!--banner-->, which is then hidden to browsers, if the banner plugin isn't called for some reason. You will have to change the placeholder in the options and in the templates to make this work ;)

Great looking hack. I'm just starting to play with it. Is there a way to rotate different subsets of banners in different locations?

ie. @vbbanners_set1@ in location 1 and @vbbanners_set2@ in a different location?

There are currently only two subsets supported, horizontal and vertical banners.

However, you may choose forums and usergroups, and thus refine your banner locations up to a high degree.

just to let members know it works perfect just installed it and bingo
where to put the gif banner was not so clear but after inserting the @vbbanners@ @vbbanners@ code it was easy to find where the banner should be uploaded

perfect job guys thnx

I have a number of normal banners and google setup as my vertical banner, the only issue I have is that when I enable the vertical banner, both sets swap locations.

Any idea what I am doing wrong ?

will look into this, can the banners within the entire product be renamed so that it bypasses adblock etc ?

I'd like to use this to rotate some images in my header. can I center this?

Could you please ensure you have in the banner options (bottom of vbulletin option list) 2 different placeholders? If both are the same, the replacement may swap. I could not imagine other conflicts.

I'm not sure what you mean. If you intend to hide ads from ad blockers, this may be done only by intelligent scripts. I doubt however simple image ads would be rejected by any software I am aware of. Image banners are simply inserted into the templates, as if they were any kind of picture.

Sure. Use image banners and insert as the URL a # sign.

Yes, I have to seperate setting, the default ones. I want to put Google ads at in one place and my ads in another, but as soon as I enable the Google ads, they switch places.

Also, is there a way to stop someone getting the same advert displayed multiple times, one after the other ?

Could you please attach a snapshot of each kind of ad (horizontal, vertical) you have been setting up and which creates the problem? I'm unable to reproduce the problem.

There is already a filter against showing one ad more than once on any page. If you have the same ad inserted multiple times in the database though, you will have to disable the ones you wish not to show, or apply different rules.

Hi

I tried to do a search but nothing showed up! Can someone tell me why I am not allowed to upload .gif with this banner rotator?

Can you please attach a snapshot of the banner settings?

Great mod - thank you thank you thank you! I love the differentiation between horizontal and vertical!

There's definitely a bug that MartynK is talking about.

I have not changed the Options - it still has @vbbanners@ and @vbbanners_vertical@ yet everwhere that I have @vbbanners@ it's pulling my Vertical images and everwhere that I have @vbbanners_vertical@ it's pulling my horizontal images. This ONLY started after I added @vbbanners_vertical@ - when I was only using @vbbanners@ it was showing the correct horizontal images.

Edit: Easiest fix is to switch the variables in the Banner Options:
Change Horizontal Placeholder to @vbbanners_vertical@
Change Vertical Placeholder to @vbbanners@

Now it's working correctly.

I've tried yesterday to simulate and I didn't succeed in reproducing the problem. @vbbanners@ shows to me horizontal banners and @vbbanners_vertical@ vertical banners with no exception.

How many banners do you have of each kind?

I think I found the problem. From the moment you disable or delete the samples and add first vertical, then horizontal banners, you run into this problem.

Update on the way for the weekend.

Ah - yeah that would probably be it. I actually deleted all the samples.

Here's my site with a demo of it. The horizontal banners under the MiFbody.com logo and the banners down the right side of the page are all done through this product. Works great - I really like the impressions and clicks logging!

http://www.mifbody.com/vbulletin/

Image attached

with Firefox AdBlockPlus which many users use, the generic code that prevents advertisements being displayed, is by reading the text of the source code, and blocking stuff like:

Advert
Advertisement
Ad
Banner

etc etc etc

How do you change the name within the admincp for this hack. Mine is showing up at the bottom as follows:

*
[rbs_rotating_banner_system]
*

Exactly like the above and its throwing my page out.

I want it to read "RBS Banner System not the above.

Regards

It appears to me you are using a different banner product ;)

Well, you may use a GIF image called pincopallino.gif and avoid names and labels which are automatically banned from AdBlockPlus. The replaced HTML is absolutely neutral and can't be identified. Unless of course you are using scripts which are recognized. In that case you may try to encode the contents, but a clever blocking script gets around that, too. ;)

If you search in the phrases for the rbs_rotating_banner_system variable and it's there, you may try to use the US translation with the appropriate text. If it isn't there, create the phrase in the GLOBAL space.

Generally, this problem has appeared relatively often and after long research it seems to depend on the language system which has a modified master language table, such as direct modifications or incorrect date/time assignment. It is particularily true on systems which host also translated boards and which language tables contain assignment errors or foreign phrases (e.g. vBulletin product phrases).

On some systems the problem has disappeared after reinstalling the Rotating Banner System product from scratch. If you have already banners inserted, make a backup of the rbs_banners table and restore after installation.

any code to change, or just FTP the new files in?

Just update the plugin - all code changes are there ;)

Any known problems with vB 3.8.0 Gold?

None yet ;)

thanks for this nice banner rotator