vB.Sponsors - Forum and Category Sponsorship Ads (and AdSense) with Statistics
 

Add sponsor's ads or Google AdSense to forums & categories

INTRO:
This extension will allow you to add sponsors to you forums and categories or use Google AdSense. You can also track the hits to each sponsor by date as well. See below for more features and demo sites.

For vBulletin 3.6.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1116730

For vBulletin 3.5.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103327

FEATURES:
-Enable sponsorship on forums and categories
-Ability to use Google AdSense code
-Use a banner or a text link
-Supports large banners for the top of the sponsored forum and small banners for the forum listing
-Tracks hits for each sponsor
-Statistics viewable inside Admin CP
-Ability to alter the "Forum sponsored by:" text
-Easy to use and install

INSTALLATION:
Documentation is located here.
I've found it's easier to maintain an online version rather than files included in the download.

THANKS:
...to vBulletin.org and its members.
...to the people who have installed this mod, suggested improvements and found bugs.

FEEDBACK:
Feedback Forums: http://DigitalDeviation.com/forums/
Feedback is always welcomed! Good or bad. Post all feedback and feature requests in this thread or in the forums above. Trust me, I'll be reading it even if I don't respond to every post.

SUPPORT:
Support Forums: http://DigitalDeviation.com/forums/
Should you need any assistance with this, you can reach me via the link above.

In either case, please post as much detail as possible with any code or screenshots pertaining to the issue. MySQL, PHP and web server software versions are helpful. You can obtain these from the Admin CP in vBulletin.

DONATE:
If you like this product, a donation would be appreciated. But of course its not required.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/07/4.gif

VERSION HISTORY:
2.0.6 - BugFix
-Changed maxversion attribute to enable vBulletin 3.7 installs

DEMO SITES: If you'd like your forum added here, PM me.
Sites listed at http://www.digitaldeviation.com/proj...referencesites

---KNOWN BUGS---
-NONE

Don't forget to click the install link below if you use it.

Looks great ....reserved

I cant seem to click and view your Screenshots

can be extended to cover some other mod

yeah, me too :confused:

Yep same problem here but try this link to see the screenshots,

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...2&d=1182699538
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...3&d=1182699538
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...4&d=1182699538
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...5&d=1182699538
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...6&d=1182699691

:)

could plz tell me should i replace all text code in forum teplate or i will paste in specific area

Great hack, thanks!

Thank's a lot for the link :)

It would be great if the admin can set for certain usergroups that able to view.

Also, can this mod put an image banner ?

I'm not sure what's going on with the screenshots...:confused: I'll try to upload them again here shortly.

Good suggestion.
I'm not sure what you mean. You can use an image as a banner. Or you can use AdSense

I sent a PM to the fact that the banner links created after the page is viewed are broken. Suggestions? And...I wanted to ask if when clicked will the browser open in a new window by default? Nice Mod.

Suggestion: Allow the placement of a banner at the header and footer with this mod from Admin. Or does this mode perform that function? I missed it if so...

i get this message when someone clicks on the link for the sponsor... i followed all the steps

"
Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/e/u/r/euroe93/html/vB.Sponsors/link.php on line 32

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/e/u/r/euroe93/html/vB.Sponsors/link.php on line 32"

Installed and Working Perfectly!

I also had this problem...To fix it, you need to do this (taken from the documentation website):

Yes, image as banner is exactly what i mean. Also can i put a swf as banner ?

You can. If its not an "active banner" (meaning you can't click the animation) it should work fine.

That's pretty much the answer. If you are having issue like that, it HAS to be the path you put in. Double check it. The slashes at the beginning and end are important.

Anyway for an Update of this wonderful Add On to allow Sponsor Ads on Header nd Footer of Forum?

if this mod included the ability to add side banners (skyscrapers) it would be sweet.

the advertisement management 2.3 mod seems to not work right and we're looking for a solution that does it all.

The ability to set viewing per user group would be sweet as well.

Is anyone having the issue of broken links? Am I missing something? I've set up for text only sponsorship. Added the links in Admin. Added the name in Admin. Clicked the appropriate checks for not showing banners, etc. The ads show on the forum heading, but when clicked the link pulls up an error message.

Confused.

?

seriously.. no installation instructions still? the site has been down since last thursday.

http://digitaldeviation.com/documentation/vbsponsors

*yawn*

great Mod

But how can i remove the text that says

Forum Sponsored by:

I need to remove this because with a fixed forum width it disrupts the forum image I have to the left because there is not enough room to fit that text and another image

My Forums so you see what I mean



Thanks in advance

I'd love to get this installed over on my new server & board, but the installation documents link is broken. Does anyone have a copy of the install docs lying around or know where I can find a mirror?

me neither :(

Documentation links are broken for the install... anyone have it posted up somewhere for me to view?

Can you use SWF banners with this sponsor mod?

Still broken here, however I got the mod working by doing the following:

1) Download and extract the zip

2) Open the link.php file in upload/vb.Sponsors in notepad

3) Find the line that reads:

chdir('/path/to/forums/');

change this to the path to your forum on your server and then save

4) Upload everything in the upload folder

5) Import the product XML as normal

This will give you the product and from there you can configure etc, however it won't display anything on forum pages. To do this you need to do some template edits. On my site I did not want to sponsor banner to be displayed on forum thread listings (as I use the 3.7.x ad location templates for this) I only wanted them on the forum indexes so:

1) Edit the "forumhome_forumbit_level1_post" template:

Find:

After the "</table>" paste in

2) Edit the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template:

Find:

After the </div> paste in:

The mod creator has also provided a template for adding the sponsor details to the top of forumdisplay (with threads) in "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post.txt", I assume this will work the same as the previous edits so look for:

And add this in the relevant place in your "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template

Doing all this seems to work for me, having said this I might have missed a critical step but without the actual docs it is impossible to say.

Doesn't look like it, it seems that when you define a banner "image" this is placed into a standard img tag.

Check a bit further down the first page of the mod comments there are some links there, alternatively download the mod the screenshots are also in there.

hmmm, have I just become support for this mod ;)

works perfect thanks for this!

some error for me.. anybody can help??
when i want to import "cpnav_vbsponsors.xml"
it cannot... and display : "Invalid File Specified"

and, success for importing "product-vbsponsors.xml"

what should i do??

hello
I like this, but I don't want the copyright, is there a way to remove it??

thanks
-Brandon

anybody can help??? ^^

does anyone have or see info on copyright removal ? more then willing to pay to remove it

My links are not working. When you click on the banners it takes you to

http://www.norcalmotocross.com/forum.../link.php?f=42

It never redirects.

Nevermind, my bad.

I forgot to edit my links.php file to reflect the path to my forum

what about the columns? how do you create such a box and add content?

I wish your web site worked so I could read the instructions.

Got it working under threads by adding the code to the Show thread template below the navbar and adding some centering code to it. Thanks a lot!

It works. Some of the links had to be moved around courtesy of a Drupal upgrade.:erm: And of course there's the recent moving of servers for the third or fourth time. I've lost track.

Anyhow...
Docs: (3.6 applies to 3.7)
http://digitaldeviation.com/documentation/vbsponsors

error if click the ads
help please

regards,
IFCtoli

Have you even looked at the line mentioned in the error?

* Modify this to reflect the path to you forums*/
chdir('/home/usernamehere/public_html/forums/');

Makes yours like that one. (edit usernamehere and you're done)

Not sure if this'll work for you, but Once you've setup your banners and enabled, turn off the product.