Banners & Ads System

Banners & Ads System
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by AnhTuanCool

Fully Tested on vb 3.0.5

Description:
Banners & Ads System allows you to have a slot on every pages in your forum for showing banners and ads. Banners and ads in database will randomly pickout to show everytime new page is loaded. Admin options in admincp allow you to fully administrate your banners and ads.

Feautures:
- Show Random Banner or Ad on everypage
- Clickable Link (of course )

Admin Feautures:
- Master Switch on/off
- Fully Add/Edit/Delete Banners, Ads Factors (such as title, dimension, links, etc...)
- Enable/Disable Banners To Be Shown (if you set Disable to a banner, it will not show)
- Banner Template Layout Alterable
- Show Banner Anywhere on your global templates

Updates:
Jan 28th - Add update to display banner anywhere rather than the nav

Install Instruction and Screenshots:
See attachments.

If you find this hack useful, also get informed by any new release & update, please click INSTALL. Thanks,

[Craigr]

Originally Posted by nmu98

Can someone fill me in on step 2
2. Master switch
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INSERT INTO phrase (languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (0, 'setting_enbanners_title', 'Enable Banners & Ads System', 5000);
INSERT INTO phrase (languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (0, 'setting_enbanners_desc', 'If this option set to Yes, overal show banners and ads on navbar function will be turned on.', 5000);

INSERT INTO setting (varname, grouptitle, value, defaultvalue, optioncode, displayorder, advanced, volatile) VALUES ('enbanners', 'general', '1', '1', 'yesno', '1000', '0', '0');
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Where do I find this? VB3.07

You insert in into phpmyadmin or similar.

[jurrie]

hey,

for those who have problems showing the banner on the forum homepage, I figured this out :
in my forum, it was properly showing on every forumpage ( userCP, FAQ, etc.)
but not on the forumhomepage.
what i did was ad the $banner here

from stylemanager :

choose : forum home templates ---> forumhome ( ad the $banner at the very bottom ) and voila . it works ( for me that is ) , try it out

see : http://www.designerschat.com

[edyonline]

Originally Posted by Craigr

Tested locally and worked okay.

not really... if you have multiple banner it will update ALL banners

edit gotobanner.php

find:
$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET visits = visits+1");

change to:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET visits = visits+1 WHERE adid='$id'");

[Monica05]

I still can't get mine to show up ANYWHERE

[Lt. Dan]

Originally Posted by Monica05

I still can't get mine to show up ANYWHERE

Me either. I did everything exactly per the instructions and the $banner doesn't show up anywhere. Its as if it is being ignored.

[Lt. Dan]

Guys, I think I found a glitch in the install.

The template that is created by following the instructions is titled: Banner with a capital 'B', but the code you insert to display the banners is $banner with a small 'b'.

I renamed the 'Banner' template to 'banner' and now it works!

[oldfan]

Worked like a charm, thanks
Is it possible to have a output page for the sponsers too see?

Originally Posted by edyonline

not really... if you have multiple banner it will update ALL banners

edit gotobanner.php

find:
$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET visits = visits+1");

change to:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET visits = visits+1 WHERE adid='$id'");

[treez]

I made a thing for this that counts the views/clicks. Hope you dont mind. (email comments to rdillon@sprocket.co.nz beacuse I dont come here often)

[Craigr]

Originally Posted by edyonline

not really... if you have multiple banner it will update ALL banners

edit gotobanner.php

find:
$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET visits = visits+1");

change to:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET visits = visits+1 WHERE adid='$id'");

Well spotted.

[mkdevo]

Originally Posted by fuse3k

does this mod work with text ads? More specifically, does it work with Google AdSense?

anyone?