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,

[xtreme2]

hey, I installed the script, but I don't want it to show up in the navbar (have other stuff there). I am wanting it to be above the Advertising Section of my site (http://forums.probe-enthusiast.com/) When I have it in the navbar, it works fine, but anywhere else, it doesn't want to show up at all... any help?

[Itworx4me]

I found that this works in the phpinclude_start template. Make sure you delete this file from the gobal.php file or it won't work.

PHP Code:

if ($vboptions['enbanners'])
{
    // select random banner and display it
    $getbanner = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT title, html, url, type, status, width, height FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners WHERE status = '1' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1");

    eval('$banner = "' . fetch_template('banner') . '";');
    unset($getbanner);
} 


One thing I have found with this script is that it doesn't rotate. Does anyone else have this problem??

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[AnhTuanCool]

Place $banner where you want your banners to be displayed. Make sure you remove $banner in your navbar template if you don't want it to show one banner twice at a time.

@Itworx4me - what do you mean by the script doesn't rotate?

[Itworx4me]

For some reason the banner doesn't rotate. Just stays on the first banner all the time. Not sure what can be done to fix this.

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[xtreme2]

alright, cool, works for me now... rotates and everything... thanks!

[AnhTuanCool]

@xtreme2 - thanks

@Itworx4me - to make a banner to display, you have to set its status to ON. Otherwise I cannot find any problem along with my forum and other customer ones.

[LauraFL]

I have it all installed but my banner is not showing up where I placed the $banner. I made sure that it is turned on and it show the banner correctly in the acp.

Any ideas?

[detalhe]

Same here, it works only inside the main page, not above the navbar for example

[AnhTuanCool]

I've added the update allow you to display your banner anywhere else you want depend on where you place your $banner variable. Have fun

[shadiguy1]

i installed this in 3.0.3 and it wont dosplay the banner but it is inside of my admincp will thius work with this version of Vb.