Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

Check the FAQ before requesting support!

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.

[Meje]

HI!

Ive been having a good search around to find something that can cater for what Im after. After installing this ad-on, I realised that the left & right columns show up in the forum table, where as I'm wanting to put adverts down the right hand of the screen next to the forum.

Ive attached an image below so you can see what mean. I would like to display adverts down the right on the green background.

Is there a way I can modify the Left & Right Columns (although Ill only be using the left at this stage) so that the adverts are put into the space/s on either side of the forum? Or maybe I need to use a different mod? - please feel free to direct me elsewhere if there is a more suitable mod for what I'm trying to do. Any help would be very much appreciated!

[aztecboi2003]

I also have not double but triple banners displayed but it's only in one template, the other one is fine. How or where do I go and what do I look for to fix this. Thanks.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by netcommander

yes I agree you redlabour I've see some problem but can you delete old version and revert old templates modification I think its work twice

What do i have to search for?

And whatabout the wrong Link about Remove Ads for registered Users?

[netcommander]

hi
you will try this
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1852

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by netcommander

hi
you will try this
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1852

Sorry this is Bullshit.
There has to be a Bugfix that removes the Link for all Users that are set to see Ads automatically. It makes no sense to show the Link to anyone that is set to see the Ads.

BTW - do you know which part of Postbittemplates is wrong to delete the doubled Ads in them?

[RedTyger]

First reply is of interest to anyone having problems with the same advertisement showing up multiple times!

Originally Posted by aztecboi2003

I also have not double but triple banners displayed but it's only in one template, the other one is fine. How or where do I go and what do I look for to fix this. Thanks.

Depends which template its in. Open that template and look for multiple instances of $x_advertisement in the template. That should be included only once, unless you're using automatic template edits in which case it shouldn't be included at all.

Originally Posted by Meje

HI!

Ive been having a good search around to find something that can cater for what Im after. After installing this ad-on, I realised that the left & right columns show up in the forum table, where as I'm wanting to put adverts down the right hand of the screen next to the forum.

Ive attached an image below so you can see what mean. I would like to display adverts down the right on the green background.

Is there a way I can modify the Left & Right Columns (although Ill only be using the left at this stage) so that the adverts are put into the space/s on either side of the forum? Or maybe I need to use a different mod? - please feel free to direct me elsewhere if there is a more suitable mod for what I'm trying to do. Any help would be very much appreciated!

It's possible that a different columns modification will do the job, but I doubt it. They'll all be designed to work with the default theme and yours is not default which is why it is not doing what you want. See this FAQ entry:

http://redtyger.co.uk/manual.php?pro...lumns_location

Originally Posted by jgommel

When I input a beginning and expiration date into the Left & Right columns, Forumbit and Threadbit advertisement timespan box, the time doesn't save. If I input the same beginning and expiration date into the Header, Navbar, Footer, Postbit, Header Archive or Footer Archive advertisement timespan it saves it just fine.

The date/time I input was: 2007-12-03 22:14:00 | 2007-12-14 01:59:00

Sorry. That would be a bug, fixed in the next update.

Originally Posted by wildo69

ok, i dont know if i missed something stupid, but i uninstalled 3.14 and installed the newest version 4.01.
The install looks to be ok, except when i go into setup my ads, i enable headers ads, paste in my code, click save.. and bam.. it reverts to no code and headers disabled.
its like it wont retain my settings..

thoughts?

Try a complete uninstallation again, make sure all files are removed from your server, then try again.

Originally Posted by Tehz

My ad's aren't appearing for the juice theme ?

What's wrong?

Bit difficult to tell from just that information. It sounds like you may need to make the template edits manually.

Originally Posted by R-n-R

OK, loaded 4.0.1 and everything seems to be running fine, EXCEPT the AJAX.

Regardless of where you run a add if AJAX is turned on after the last ad I get the following Parse Error (I removed my domain and replaced it with domainname.com)

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /chroot/home/livingli/domainname.com/html/forum/ajax.php(44) : eval()'d code on line 1

I am not sure if this is a setting I have wrong, aka operator error, or if its a actual bug.

Sounds like you have either accidentally edited the vb_ad_management.xml file, there's a conflict with the adcode you're trying to use or there's a possible conflict with another modification.

If reuploading a definitely-unedited product file doesn't work, tell me what adcode you are using with the AJAX bit.

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

I'm a bit new to advertising on the forums and don't quite understand some of the terms and purposes for some features.

Can someone please tell me what purpose Ad Sharing serves? I'm trying to determine if it's something we want to consider. I understand it as a way to allow users to advertise, but how exactly?

Reading the manual it all fine and dandy, but I'm not understanding how it's actually implemented. Can someone actually SHOW me an example of this?

It allows you to set a percentage chance where a user's advertisement will be used instead of your own. A user puts their advertisement code in their profile and starts a thread. As a reward, they have a 10% chance say of their advertisement being shown instead of your own. Thus in theory you have handed over 10% of your ad revenue to them.

That's if you set the entire adcode to be shared. You could use adsense for example and just share the publisher ID, meaning the advertisement doesn't change but where the money goes from clicks changes to them.

Originally Posted by Sandy-XXX

The new version its now installed. Thanks a lot

Working nice.

A have two questions (and excuse my bad english)

First question. With this new version I can add different ads, ?how?

Example, In my forum I have a xxx zone. I want xxx advertisement on xxx forums, and normal advertisement on the other forums.


The other question, I have see in the postbit and threadbit options on my admincp this:

Enable "show threads" search advertisements on your forum?

Enable "show posts" search advertisements on your forum?

I put yes, but dont show nothing on the search results.

I not using automatic insertion, because I have the lines in the code from the previous version, now I think I need to add "$postbit_advertisement" on the search templates, but i dont where exactly on the code.

I dont want to use automatic insertion for better performance.

1) You can use template conditionals, there's a bit about what they are and how they work here. In your case, your adcode would look like this:

<if condition="in_array($forum, array(1,2,3)">
xxx adverts go here
<else />
all other ads go here
</if>

Just change 1,2,3 to the forum IDs of your xxx forums. You can add or take away as many as you like.

2) You need to add $postbit_advertisement to the search_results_postbit template. My mistake, that's missing from the manual. You can add it where you like in the template, if you don't like where it is you can just move it until you do.

Originally Posted by redlabour

Sorry this is Bullshit.
There has to be a Bugfix that removes the Link for all Users that are set to see Ads automatically. It makes no sense to show the Link to anyone that is set to see the Ads.

You do not want the link to appear anywhere at all for any users, is that correct?

[Meje]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

It's possible that a different columns modification will do the job, but I doubt it. They'll all be designed to work with the default theme and yours is not default which is why it is not doing what you want. See this FAQ entry:

Thanks for you reply!

Ive had a look at the FAQ and just wanted to clarify something before going any further in getting it to work for me.

Is the right and left column, by default, in the default VB theme supposed to appear as they are here? (when I turn it on, it stretches the board, so messes up the header because its fixed width, but thats not the issue here, I just need to know if the sponsored links box is appearing in the the place its intended by default)


Because in regards to major structural changes, Ive only customized the theme by moving the forums to the left so more of the background is showing. So if you are able to confirm that the image above, shows the adverts in the place that thy are intended to be, then I can know if its a template customization on my part thats the problem, or if I need to customize this mod to do what I need. - which is to have them sitting on the background, to the right of the forums.

[RedTyger]

That's correct, that is where it should appear by default. I see what you've done with the theme now I've looked at your forum but I can't envision exactly what needs to be done, sorry.

[Meje]

ok, thanks for taking the time to take a look for me

[josepheseven]

thanks for the update
will update mine asap !