Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[Mrdby]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

I know. It was a joke. I think you meant "bear with me", not "bare with me".

oops..u right..lol

[mik2007]

RedTyger, thanks for the great ad system!
I have one question regarding custom code - I did everything according to instructions and it works beautifully if I add $custom_advertisement into the header or footer templates. However all attempts to add $custom_advertisement into the postbit template fail. My goal is to display the small ad block incorporated into the end of the last message in the thread only.

I tried to achieve it by adding the following to the postbit_display_start.php or global_start.php but to no avail:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['adintegrate_custom_onoff'])
if ((THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' || THIS_SCRIPT == 'showpost') && $post['islastshown'])
{    
{
if ($vbulletin->options['adintegrate_custom_adcode'])
    {
        $custom_split = explode("$adshared", $vbulletin->options['adintegrate_custom_adcode']);
        $custom_adcode = $custom_split[0];
        if ($custom_split[1])
        {
            $custom_adcode = $custom_split[0] . $GLOBALS['adcode_shared'] . $custom_split[1];
        }
        eval('$custom_advertisement = "' . fetch_template('' . custom_advertisement . '') . '";');
    }
    else if ($vbulletin->options['adintegrate_custom_adcode_rand'])
    {
        $custom_adcode = explode("$addelimiter", $vbulletin->options['adintegrate_custom_adcode_rand']);
        $custom_rand = array_rand($custom_adcode);
        $custom_adcode = $custom_adcode["$custom_rand"];
        $custom_split = explode("$adshared", $custom_adcode);
        $custom_adcode = $custom_split[0];
        if ($custom_split[1])
        {
            $custom_adcode = $custom_split[0] . $GLOBALS['adcode_shared'] . $custom_split[1];
        }
        eval('$custom_advertisement = "' . fetch_template('' . custom_advertisement . '') . '";');
    }    
}
} 


[Mrdby]

where would i paste my google adsense code?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

where would i paste my google adsense code?

Assuming you're still referring to the footer link, as earlier:

Admin CP |vBulletin Options | vB Ad Management Header and Footer

[Mrdby]

On three of my skins...the left and right colum doesn't work. any ideas?

[mik2007]

Have you updated the appropriate templates:

# Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
# Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

Originally Posted by Mrdby

On three of my skins...the left and right colum doesn't work. any ideas?

[The Librarian]

Upgrading from vBulletin 3.6.4 to 3.6.7 today. Got this error message at the top of my forums:

Warning: Unknown(/home/aaaaa/public_html/forum2/includes/vb_ad_management/cache_templates.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(341) : eval()'d code on line 32

Warning: Unknown(/home/aaaaa/public_html/forum2/includes/vb_ad_management/cache_templates.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(341) : eval()'d code on line 32

Warning: (null)() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/aaaaa/public_html/forum2/includes/vb_ad_management/cache_templates.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /global.php(341) : eval()'d code on line 32

and I can't login to AdminCP without disabling hooks:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/aaaaaaa/public_html/forum2/includes/class_core.php
Line: 3083

so I disabled everything, logged in, disabled just vB Ad Management, and then turned things back on. The forums worked (mostly) and the error message was gone. I tried re-installing Ad Management and had the same problem. I've still got problems with vBadv CMPS but I need help figuring out what to do about Ad Management.

BTW, I've created a second forum (forum2) to run the upgrade as per instructions found here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187770
I've turned back on the original forum until I can figure out this and other problems.

Help!

[Hendrizius]

I can not get it to work,
My Options:
Enable Advertisments: Yes
Display advertisements to Usergroups: (blank)
Do NOT display advertisements to Usergroups: (blank)
My AD-Code:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5644726162652543";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
//2007-06-05: Between Posts AD
google_ad_channel = "7972402814";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_text = "008000";
google_color_url = "000000";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

I performed all the Template-Changes but simply no ADs are showing. My Board URL is http://www.d3scene.com, thanks for helping me.

Edit, When opening my Websites source and searching for "google" there is no Google-Analytics-Code included, too.

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-1502391-3";
urchinTracker();
</script>

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Hendrizius

I can not get it to work,
My Options:
Enable Advertisments: Yes
Display advertisements to Usergroups: (blank)
Do NOT display advertisements to Usergroups: (blank)

There's your answer.

Which usergroups should be shown ads? None.

Which usergroups should not be shown ads? None.

Which usergroups are left who will actually SEE the ads, including admins? None.

[Hendrizius]

Yes, but leaving it blank should show it to everyone. I put this in there now:
Display advertisements to Usergroups: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|
Do NOT display advertisements to Usergroups: 27

Still no change. Thanks for helping.