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This mod invokes the ads via local mode or xml-rpc calls by defining a template tag <ad />.

The javascript invocation method is not implemented using the <ad /> tag to callout phpAdsNew [openX].

If I understand you correctly, you are using javascript invocation calls generated by the zone defined in phpAdsNew [openX]?

This method is slow and very inefficient compared to local mode therefore I tried this mod in order to improve performance but immediately ran into the problem of it no longer being supported for vB3.8.x or openX (as such).

Having a server with vB3.8.3 and openX 2.8 on the same localhost I thought I'd give this mod a go and see if it works. It does, but with the caveat that as soon as you invoke an ad using the <ad /> tag all timestamps on the board are reverted to UTC (whatever the server config or userCP setting) but the board time remains correct and displays correctly (timezone and all) at the bottom of the pages.

The reason for this is that when making local mode calls to openX 2.8 the timezone is not correctly handled - as reported in this bug.

Several workarounds are suggested and I found that ultimately defining the openX timezone prior to making the callout (with the localhost local timezone - nothing to do with a user's preference setting offset) fixed the problemo.

So that, in a nutshell, is it.

I have not experimented with xml-rpc but since this mod provides it as an alternative call I suspect it works as expected.

You can therefore do away with javascript invocation by implementing this mod with the single plugin modification I posted above.
HTH
Cheers,
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I suppose that this mod could be relaunched as OpenX Banner Ads Integration and stated as compatible with vB 3.8 and OpenX2.8 - much more testing would have to be done though and the local system timezone would have to be implemented as opposed to hardwiring it in the plugin.