Advert Management

This is a script to allow you to manage the adverts on your forums, you can have any sort of advert you can imagine there is no actual limit with this hack to what it can be, javascript, flash, image, text and images.

You add adverts to a category or a forum or the whole board. If the category has child forums they will inherit the adverts as well as their own adverts if they have any.
Adverts can have a set exposure such as 10,000 views and once it has reached that it will stop.

It fills a variable called $advert which you just place in any template, such as the header, you can also use variables and replacements within the adverts, such as $bbuserinfo[userid] for the persons userid in a link within an advert.

Updated June 9th at 19:44 GMT

Added date limits and options for unlimited exposures.
To upgrade from an older version, reapply code in global.php, upload ads.php and run this sql query to alter the ads table you made.

[sql]ALTER TABLE `ads` ADD `time` INT(10) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;[/sql]

[sql]ALTER TABLE `ads` ADD `wholeforum` SMALLINT(1) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;[/sql]
If you already run that query though are still experiencing problems with the time always being January 1st run

[sql]ALTER TABLE `ads` CHANGE `time` `time` INT(10) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL[/sql]

New features include showing the advert on the entire forum by using a radio button, some highlighting in the admin panel, italic name indicates the time period has ended and a bold name means the advert has met its quota for exposures.

You must chance RAND() to RAND(NOW()) if you have mysql 3.23.52 or above

Scott

[SpeedStreet]

Where's PPN?

That code did not work for me waherne...

[SpeedStreet]

well then...

[Scott MacVicar]

change

RAND() in global.php to RAND(NOW())

I just found out that the format had changed on newer versions of MySQL.

[SpeedStreet]

PPN,

While this may help the problem, I am still only getting one banner ad to pull out of three records consistently:

PHP Code:

Banner 1 [edit] [reset] [remove] 0 0 Leaders Forum No 
Banner 2 [edit] [reset] [remove] 48 0 All forums Yes 
Banner 3 [edit] [reset] [remove] 0 0 Leaders Forum No 


I did change both RAND() arguements to RAND(NOW()). There must be something else amiss. Also, I have tried switching it so that only one banner appears in the All Forums and the other appear in a subforum, but the All Forum one still overrides the other two, if you understand what I am saying.

Let me know if I can help in any way!

PHP Code:

SYSTEM INFO
Operating System Linux 
Apache Version 1.3.27 (Unix) 
Perl Version 5.006001 
PHP Version 4.2.3 
Mysql Version 3.23.54 


[waherne]

I have just installed VB 2.29 and this hack with the amendments I suggested earlier. The ads rotated correctly as I expected.

Willie

[SpeedStreet]

hrmm....I wonder why I am having problems then...

[Merjawy]

better late than never

I haven't a clue what ver. my php/sql but who cares? the hack works for me .. I don't have any ads but I can put different announcement or special greetings in different forums.. INSTALL

thnx

[Brain Crusher]

i want a hack plugin for this should like

only ads for guests

or only ads in a special category

[Doc203]

Works great for me also, and I changed Global.php, but it still doesn't appear to be random. Any ideas?

[DannyITR]

change

RAND() in global.php to RAND(NOW())

I'm confused now. Is the hack fixed? Is that all it was? What about the fix proposed by waherne? PPN can you update us?