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.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by onehost

would this ad system show adsense?

Yes. Certainly.

[Tourmeister]

Works great for me. But now I have a question!

I want to have a usergroup called "Advertiser". Users use the VB subscription system to pay a fee and automatically be added to this usergroup. Then, when I add banner images to the list in the Admin control panel Ad Management options, I'd like to be able to associate the entries to the users in the Advertiser usergroup. Thus, at the end of their subscription term, their entry on the list is automatically overlooked and no longer displays.

Example:

When random image selected, check to see if associated user is member of Advertiser usergroup

-- Yes, then display image normally
-- No, then do not display image and repeat random selection

This way, I don't have to be so heavily involved in keeping track of when peoples banners should no longer display or when they should be reactivated if they renew their advertiser status.

Anyone have any ideas?

[RedTyger]

Tourmeister, vBulletin doesn't do promotions automatically based on subscriptions as far as I'm aware. There's certainly no facility for it with this modification, sorry.

Originally Posted by djbaxter

This latest version of global_start.php fixed the problem for me.

Excellent! At last! Update forthcoming then...

[Tourmeister]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Tourmeister, vBulletin doesn't do promotions automatically based on subscriptions as far as I'm aware. There's certainly no facility for it with this modification, sorry.

Sure it does When you create a subscription, there is an option to change the user's usergroup in the upper right corner. When people donate, I put them into a Forum Supporter usergroup (as "Additional member" and not as "Primary"). When their donation term expires, they are automatically removed from the Forum Supporter usergroup. I do the same thing for the Advertisers usergroup. So if there is some way to associate a banner entry on the list in the Ad Management control panel with the user, and then check for their usergroup status... it all becomes automated very nicely!

[Yvgeniy]

I'm still experiencing problems with the vB Ad Management credit at the bottom of the page. You released a small fix for it before to prevent the problem of it recreating itself more than once (meaning, you'd have like 3 in a row at the bottom there), however, the fix doesn't really prevent it from continuing to multiply. Basically, what I have to do is rewrite the XML file every once in a while when I notice that it starts making copies of itself again. Could you release another fix to prevent the process entirely, or have you already done that and I somehow missed it? Let me know.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Yvgeniy

I'm still experiencing problems with the vB Ad Management credit at the bottom of the page. You released a small fix for it before to prevent the problem of it recreating itself more than once (meaning, you'd have like 3 in a row at the bottom there), however, the fix doesn't really prevent it from continuing to multiply. Basically, what I have to do is rewrite the XML file every once in a while when I notice that it starts making copies of itself again. Could you release another fix to prevent the process entirely, or have you already done that and I somehow missed it? Let me know.

Which fix was that?

The first "fix" did not work. A couple of days later, the author released a second fix which did the job.

Scan backwards in this thread or use the version attached below (upload it to \includes\vb_ad_management\global_start.php).

The latest file should probably be added to the downloads post in this thread, to avoid confusion.

[TrIn@dOr]

Ok, upgraded from 3.04 to 3.13, all ok but this:

Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.

I don?t have that code in that template.

vB 3.6.7 PL1

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Ok, upgraded from 3.04 to 3.13, all ok but this:

I don?t have that code in that template.

vB 3.6.7 PL1

Just place the tag $header_advertisement wherever you want the ad to appear.

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Just place the tag $header_advertisement wherever you want the ad to appear.

like down $_phpinclude_output ?

[djbaxter]

Sure, if you like. Experiment. Move it around until it's where you want it to be.