UKBL ~ Rotation Iframe adverts
 

UKBL ~ Rotation Iframe adverts

This hack works in two parts, some of the code is written by Dyamic Drive so please keep the credits intact if you use. ;)

Installation

1. Download the iframeads.zip

2. Firstly open the advertiser.txt file in notepad and find the following

Then change My forum url for yours and also the size of the ads that you'll be showing (I've shown it in red)

Thats all you need to do on that file so now save your edits and open the adverts.htm file in notepad.

You'll see the first part of the code is like this

The only bit you need to change is the very begining

This is the delay for each ad, if you want to change the time that each add shows edit the Var delay, so if you wanted each ad to show for 3 seconds, you'd change this value to 3000

now we come to the addition of the Advertising banners.

First you need to do a little bit of work, making each banner clickable and pointing to an url, so for this we'll use a simple bit of code below

Its really easy, You just add the url to the front of the code and the Image url goes in the second part, Do that for all your adverts and you should get something like this...

Notice two additions to the code also, First is the target="_blank" this makes sure that the ad opens up in a new window, otherwise we'll have the url opening in a 468x60 window, Not good at all, so make sure this remains, after each url

Secondly, we have added border=0 to the end of the Image url, This prevents a url border from showing, so make sure this is added to each advert code.

Once you've made all your ads clickable then ad them to the end of the adverts.htm code like my example below

I've only shown 4 adverts but if you add another block befor the end </div> like below, you'll be able to add unlimited ads

Thats its, just save the file and we're ready to upload.

A quick tip to see if your adverts.htm file is working, just click on it in your desktop and you'll see your ads rotating :D

Now, for the uploads

Firstly, The adverts.htm file which you've just added your ads to, need to go into the forum root directory, once uploaded you can test it by going to http://yourforum.com/adverts.htm

You should see your banners rotating, if so then alls well ;)

Next we need to go to our admin cp and in your styles header, we need to add the small call up file which we saved as advertiser.txt. So open up this file again in notepad and copy and paste to the end of your styles Header.

Now when you go to your forum you should see your ads rotating nicely.

You can be more adventurous and add the call up code to any template you want, each time your adds will show anywhere in your forums, You can of course duplicate the code and with an additional .htm code on your forums root, you'll be able to have more banners showing, different sizes etc..

Hope you enjoy this simple addition

If you click Install then i'll support you 100%
:D

If you've installed this on your site, drop me a PM and i'll add it to the Live Demo at the begining of this post ;)

:D reserved :rolleyes:

Good work, thank you......

Installed

your mod is not working at all if i use js script code from adsense

pleasehelp

itmessup the firefox and disable every forum threads :(

Another UKBL winner. Installed and used in the vb Side Column mod. Works great!

doesn't works for me on 3.8 i could've done something wrong. The url works fine but when i add it, it makes a mess of the whole header.

Thanks, Your site is great and i'll add it as a demo ;)

http://hearts4horses.net/member_forum/upload/index.php

Great work, with such a simple hack, well done ;)

Did you add the ads to a new file in your Forum root called adverts.html ?? basically all we're doing is adding an i-frame to our forums which reads the adverts.html file where you add the ads.

i've got the same problem as maidos...
chrome and explorer visualize all correctly but firefox show only the advertising and then the footer, all forum is cutted away...
any solution?

just a small non important related thing but your forum Horse Rescue Organzation of the Month is missing an "i"

Thanks River Rush for the eye on my "i". Updated.

Hello friend UKBusinessLive, you know if works with TradeDoubler to insert link?

thank

Hiya Buddy,

Not tried with TradeDoubler, But why don't you give it a go and let us know. The beauty of these mods is the fun we have adapting them to our sites.

Try it and let us know, and perhaps i'll add it to the first post as an extra ;) (credits to you!!)

Don't forget to click installed!! :o

Have fun

Gerry :D

Well, I must say that it works with TradeDoubler links.

I completely replaced by this line:

And put the link and TradeDoubler:

and works perfect, I have changed var delay=5000 a 7000, seems more appropriate ..


greetings

Quick note:

We installed 3.8.4 WITHOUT a TMS and the UKBL mod has no problems. I think 3.8.4 will be OK with most mods because 3.8.4 has no template edits.

(or it could be Gerry's uncanny ability to build in forward compatibility...:))

I'm thinking Years in advance buddy, :eek:

it does not work in Firefox due to the JavaScript window.onload event not working properly in Firefox. All other browsers okay.

This is a major bug and I cannot use this mod until it is fixed.

i'm in the same boat.....
firefox users can not see anything below the banner.

Hmm, works ok in Firefox.

To correct the Firefox problem edit the "advertiser.txt" to the following:
I use this on vB 4.0.1 (SevenSkins TwinColumn).

He 'da man!!!

I too had the issue with Firefox. I discovered a workaround that can allow your rotational frames to still work in either IE or Firefox.

In an ideal situation, your site should appear the same on either browser. Using the workaround, I think we got ours to be identical on both IE and Firefox. Check it out using both different browsers here: http://forums.hearts4horses.com.

I was able to do this by simply changing to animated gif files. This is not hard, but it does take a little time. No issues so far...