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.

[nanaimobar]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Sorry, don't follow you? You don't need to worry about anything like that, just the AdminCP settings. global_start just means run on every page load.




Yes, that's right. You must use HTML, any will work. I can't help you out with that too much there's a lot of different code you can use, but for a basic image/link combination it will look like this:

<a href="WHEREYOUWANTTOLINKTO1"><img src="LOCATIONOFIMAGE1" border="0" alt="DESCRIPTIONOFIMAGE2" /></a>,
<a href="WHEREYOUWANTTOLINKTO2"><img src="LOCATIONOFIMAGE2" border="0" alt="DESCRIPTIONOFIMAGE2" /></a>

That's for a random rotation, note the comma which goes between every section of code and that there is NO comma with the last one. You can read up more about HTML here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Much appreciated, RedTyger. Code seems simple enough. Going to w3school site now to read up on HTML. Punzhu Puzzles

[Reece^B]

Thanks for your support so far, this hack is really good, saves alot of time and template editing in the long run.

Back to my problem though, the code you said to stick in hasnt made any difference.

[Phooey]

Very nice hack, thanks! I'm only displaying ads after the first post in each thread, but this is extremely scalable and customizable.

*installed*

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Reece^B

Thanks for your support so far, this hack is really good, saves alot of time and template editing in the long run.

Back to my problem though, the code you said to stick in hasnt made any difference.

Bah. Ok, well there's a sizable update coming out shortly so when that's done and I've got time I'll dig in and try to work it out on my test forum.

Originally Posted by Phooey

Very nice hack, thanks! I'm only displaying ads after the first post in each thread, but this is extremely scalable and customizable.

*installed*

That was the idea! Glad you like it, thank you.

[sim10]

Love this mod..but is there now a way to not display adverts in headers and footers in certain forums/boards

[SolPal]

Hi, i love this mod, thank you very much.

one problem, i relized today, that only registered users can see the ads (i have the ad to show on the footer and threads). I would like it to show to all. how to do that ?

thank you

[SolPal]

Originally Posted by sim10

Love this mod..but is there now a way to not display adverts in headers and footers in certain forums/boards

you go to vB options then go to "VB Ad Management global Settings" then go to "Display advertisements in ForumIDs:" and set that there

[sim10]

this is what it says:

Enter the IDs of the forums in which you do NOT want to display the advertisements, separated by commas. (i.e. 16,17,18) Leave blank to not exclude forums.

This setting does not apply to the header or footer or side columns.

That's why i'm asking has someone come up with a way now to stop it displaying in header/footer?

[echamberlain]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Oh right, didn't realise it was optional. Ok I won't change it then.

I use javascript in my ad rotations, so using some other character (or combination of characters that doesn't appear in html or javascript) than the comma for separation would be nice.

[Lordy]

just checked thread again, thanks a lot redtyger for your response was damn fast, didnt think i'd get it less than half an hour.