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.

[Suzie]

When inserting ads into single threads, what if you want one specific ad in individual threads? Can you do that and have several different ads for individual threads and not rotate ads. For instance if you have 3 advertisers that want to advertise in a thread about a specific topic .... and no where else can you set 3 ads about 3 different items and have them show only in the threads specified?

[snikle]

Excellent work, installation was a breeze and it works perfectly thus far. Great job!

Ok, question.
Say I wanted only the ad banners to show up on my very first forum page (forum home), would that be done using the forumbit controls?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Suzie

When inserting ads into single threads, what if you want one specific ad in individual threads? Can you do that and have several different ads for individual threads and not rotate ads. For instance if you have 3 advertisers that want to advertise in a thread about a specific topic .... and no where else can you set 3 ads about 3 different items and have them show only in the threads specified?

Not with this modification, no. You'd have to edit the postbit template and for each specific thread add this to where you wanted the ad to go:

<if condition="$thread[threadid] == '12345'">
Adcode for this thread ID
</if>
<if condition="$thread[threadid] == '678910'">
Adcode for this thread ID
</if>

And so on.

Originally Posted by snikle

Excellent work, installation was a breeze and it works perfectly thus far. Great job!

Ok, question.
Say I wanted only the ad banners to show up on my very first forum page (forum home), would that be done using the forumbit controls?

Forumbit ads would make them show up where the name of each each forum is, yes.

[echamberlain]

Great mod, I have it working with phpAdsNew (I was using another mod with xml-rpc, but have switch to javascript for this mod).

I'd like to add a feature request for the following ad locations:

• navbar
• search_results_postbit

and the option to left align postbit ads.

I've manually edited the templates for now, but would like to be able to make the changes in the adminCP.

[admin0]

Yep. This works perfectly with phpAdsNew.

Would love to see more places where ads can be targeted.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by echamberlain

Great mod, I have it working with phpAdsNew (I was using another mod with xml-rpc, but have switch to javascript for this mod).

I'd like to add a feature request for the following ad locations:

• navbar
• search_results_postbit

and the option to left align postbit ads.

I've manually edited the templates for now, but would like to be able to make the changes in the adminCP.

Just taken a look at search_results_postbit and I agree. I'll add it to the next version. I didn't include any search templates because of Google's TOS, but of course that doesn't apply to everyone so...

Styling is unlikely to ever be done via the AdminCP. it's very unwieldy, especially since there's no way to hook CSS into the forum's existing stylesheet. And more to the point there's so many ways people might want to format, I could never cover them all. The options would be huge! It's likely to be template edits all the way.

Navbar you can already do if you need. Just change the template edit to $GLOBALS[$header_advertisement] (I think it is, it's discussed earlier in the thread for vBCMPS) and add it to the navbar template instead of the header template. But the thought does occur that I could add perhaps two "miscellanous" adcode sections which can be placed anywhere at all in case someone wants a header template and a navbar template, for instance.

Originally Posted by admin0

Yep. This works perfectly with phpAdsNew.

Would love to see more places where ads can be targeted.

Such as? If you don't ask, you don't get...

[GFX Brands]

THis is a great code. But it seem to have one bug i found.

When i do the template edit on the header template while using the rightside advertisement on show thread the sidebar advertisemetn dosent seem to work but on forumhome it does. When i use the default header leftsider advertisement works. So is there any fix.

[admin0]

i am using this via phpadsnew, but for some reasons, cannot get the rotator to work
It works fine when people move from 1 page to another, but staying in the same page, the ads stay the same.
calling the same zone command, exactly as the first one using a , also does not rotate without refresh.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by GFX Brands

THis is a great code. But it seem to have one bug i found.

When i do the template edit on the header template while using the rightside advertisement on show thread the sidebar advertisemetn dosent seem to work but on forumhome it does. When i use the default header leftsider advertisement works. So is there any fix.

Didn't quite follow that, sorry. Could I have a link to see the problem?

Originally Posted by admin0

i am using this via phpadsnew, but for some reasons, cannot get the rotator to work
It works fine when people move from 1 page to another, but staying in the same page, the ads stay the same.
calling the same zone command, exactly as the first one using a , also does not rotate without refresh.

It was never intended to rotate without a refresh. It just picks a random advert on page load.

[ESADCG]

I am having an issue.
If I enter a user ID in the "Do NOT display advertisements for UserIDs:"
It turns off ads on the entire forum for everyone.