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.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

I didn't mean steal toolio I ment look at it and see what I ment by stats and what could be a future add on to this mod. No reason to be nasty. I am a programer as well and we all share and help eachother to make the best mods possible it has nothing to do with stealing and always give original coder credit. If you don't like the idea that is totaly understandable it is your mod and a GREAT mod at that no credit taken away. But for a business or commercial stand point without the stats it is useless. I have 25 websites and will use this mod on about 10 of them but rest are to commercial and need to record stats to show the clients. I client log in to check stats is a huge plus as well which would be a great add on.

Oh, I wasn't being rude! Nothing wrong with the idea, but I made it with Adsense in mind which has third party stats so it was never part of my intention. Lots of other advertisement providers do the same so it's not useless in that sense, although I appreciate it's not very helpful if you want to do your own. I guess it's possibility for the future, but for now it would require too much of a rewrite.

Originally Posted by The Wedge

when you have ads after posts it kills the ability to click the users name and get the drop down for View Public Profile
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This happens on on the posts that appear just before the ad

I can't reproduce this, it works fine for me. Try checking the validity of your forum code (ads included) using this:

http://validator.w3.org

Originally Posted by Michel Fortin

Hmmm, got this error message when trying to install the product...

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

### INSERT QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
INSERT INTO vb_plugin
	(`active`, `executionorder`, `title`, `hookname`, `phpcode`, `product`)
VALUES
	('1', '5', 'Postbit/Postbit_Legacy advertisement integrate', 'cache_templates', '\r\nif ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_onoff\'])\r\n{\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_footer_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		$adtemplates[] = \'footer_advertisement\';\r\n	}\r\n	\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_forumbit_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		$adtemplates[] = \'forumbit_advertisement\';\r\n	}\r\n	\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_header_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		$adtemplates[] = \'header_advertisement\';\r\n	}\r\n	\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_leftcolumn_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		$adtemplates[] = \'leftcolumn_advertisement\';\r\n	}	\r\n	\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_announcements_onoff\'] OR $vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_pms_onoff\'] OR $vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_posts_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		if ($vbulletin->options[\'legacypostbit\'])\r\n		{	\r\n			$adtemplates[] = \'postbit_legacy_advertisement\';\r\n		}\r\n		else\r\n		{\r\n			$adtemplates[] = \'postbit_advertisement\';\r\n		}\r\n	}\r\n	\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_rightcolumn_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		$adtemplates[] = \'rightcolumn_advertisement\';\r\n	}	\r\n	\r\n	if ($vbulletin->options[\'adintegrate_threadbit_onoff\'])\r\n	{\r\n		$adtemplates[] = \'threadbit_advertisement\';\r\n	}\r\n	\r\n	if (count($adtemplates) > 0)\r\n	{\r\n		$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, $adtemplates);\r\n	}\r\n}\r\n', 'adintegrate_rt');

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'executionorder' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date         : Wednesday, November 29th 2006 @ 12:15:35 AM
Script       : http://www....
Referrer     : http://www.....com/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address   : 74.101.243.93
Username     : Michel Fortin
Classname    : vB_Database

That is a 3.5x forum. This is a 3.6x product. See my signature.

[rweber93]

Can there be a auto rotation added? Or does this exist already and I don't know how to execute that option? Thanks! Great mod BTW!

[RedTyger]

Every location has a separate random code rotation ability.

[agua]

Great Hack... exactly what I was looking for - Thanks

But my ads only display when users are registered... is there a way to display them all the time? (Or did I miss something?)

[RedTyger]

It's displayed according to your Usergroup settings in Global Settings. Guests are Usergroup 1.

[ruhrpottforum]

Is it possible to display different kinds of Ads to users (special groups) and/or Guests? (likes Guests get bigger Ads, a Group of users did not get Ads and all others get standard size ads).

[thumbsucker]

The threadbit advertisement is GREAT except for the fact that it messes up alignment (I'm using Adsense).

Thus, when the threads are listed with advertisement, it makes everything too wide and the user has to scroll to the right to see the entire screen.

Any way to fix this?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by ruhrpottforum

Is it possible to display different kinds of Ads to users (special groups) and/or Guests? (likes Guests get bigger Ads, a Group of users did not get Ads and all others get standard size ads).

I'm afraid not.

Originally Posted by thumbsucker

The threadbit advertisement is GREAT except for the fact that it messes up alignment (I'm using Adsense).

Thus, when the threads are listed with advertisement, it makes everything too wide and the user has to scroll to the right to see the entire screen.

Any way to fix this?

Demo please?

[farooqaaa]

w000t! its the best one !! i love it...

Thanks alot (already installed)

[thumbsucker]

Some bugs/problems I've noticed:

Adsense ads in thread causes the screen to be too wide, making users scroll right to see the whole page.

Also noticed that with first and last post ads activated, the first and last poster's user profile link (their user name) no longer works. It will not click nor give a drop-down menu.