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 TheBlackPoet

no i didnt upload the language... can you please tell me what directory i am to load it to?? i put it in the install directory... i didnt mess with the file or anything, (wasnt sure about that).. but still the same issue..

You don't have to load it to a directory at all, it's a product just like the main file.

[jgommel]

RedTyger, I'm not really sure if this was an issue or deliberate, but when activating the Sponsors under Footer & Sponsors, the collapse_tcat.gif graphic is not matching the current theme. After digging into the templates, I found that the advertisement_sponsors template is using an absolute link to the collapse_tcat.gif file...

<img id="collapseimg_sponsors" src="images/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" />

To get around this and to make full use of the collapse, I change the entire template to use relative links. This way, no matter what theme a user chooses, the correct collapse_tcat.gif file is chosen.

<br />
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" colspan="$columns">$vbphrase[adintegrate_sponsored_links]
		<a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('sponsors')">
		<img id="collapseimg_sponsors" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td>
	</tr>
	<tr id="collapseobj_sponsors">$sponsors_adcode</tr>
</table>
<br />

[RedGTiVR6]

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?

anyone?

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

I've had a look at your archive and the header advertisement at least is being inserted fine. The problem appears to be with your adcode.


Well, turning it on and off is clean. It's because using usergroup permissions and so on is inefficient. It was moved to this method because the previous method was not particularly efficient either, and this way it can be set up to do anything you want instead of just on or off. You will have to edit the templates if you want to assign conditionals to the phrase.

1. I have fixed this before you have had a look.

2. Sorry, i think some of us both is not understanding.

I see the Ads and i am Administrator. Where is the sense for this Link to be redirect to Register? All i want is a field where i can add the Usergroups which dont have any sense to register to deactivate the Ads. For all other Users this Link is useless.

You have made Permissions for seeing Ads or not. Why are there no Options to add the link or make it disappearing on this Choice from the Administrator? Or any way to change the Link to a Option in UserCP to deactivate this for special Groups (Sponsormembers or anything like that).

[jgommel]

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

anyone?

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense

[songyee]

For the 'Full Page Advertisement' how would you show a different site?

I tried <iframe> but it only limits it to a small box.

Like example, if i wanted to show " http://www.google.com " what would the code be?

[bada_bing]

I just tried to upgrade from my previous version of this hack 3.14 to the current and when I installed the xml I get a database error and had to revert back to 3.14 and now lost all my settings anyone else have this issue. I have two sites and this happened to my 3.6.7 version of VB

[songyee]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

I just tried to upgrade from my previous version of this hack 3.14 to the current and when I installed the xml I get a database error and had to revert back to 3.14 and now lost all my settings anyone else have this issue. I have two sites and this happened to my 3.6.7 version of VB

On his site, red said there was no way to upgrade from 3.14 to 4.01. You would have to delete the whole thing and reinstall it.

I had same problem.

[tekguru]

With this new update how do we go about adding the Google Analytics code back in?

[TheBlackPoet]

okay... that was my stupid moment for 2007.... thanks..... it works fine.... just fine...