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]

No, can't do that.

[bagfullofrice]

Well, is there any possible way around this? I really need this.


edit: Maybe I can add the PHP codes in the template and then assign a variable, then call the variable with JS?

[RedTyger]

No, PHP cannot be used in templates.

[djchris]

Hi RedTyger,

Love your mod. Just wanted to check if it is possible to display ads in a continuous mode instead of random?

[RedTyger]

Continuous mode...you mean sequentially, first then second then third in the list? It's not I'm afraid.

[skubaman]

Hi, I have installed it and set it up, but I can't get it to show the openads ads.
I have tried different types of openads ads and none of them display. I know the ad codes are working because I can run it on a test php page.

If I just write "XYZ" in the banner area of VB Ads setup it does show the XYZ in my forum.

So apparently the problem is compatibility between openads and vbads.

Here is the openads code

PHP Code:

<?php
    if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/oa10/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
        if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
        $phpAds_raw = view_raw ('zone:1', 0, '', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
        echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
    }
?>

My forum is at

http://www.snowbrasil.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1250

You can see the space for the banners between the posts, but nothing shows there.

And here you can see that the openads code works.

http://www.snowbrasil.com/ads.php

I appreciate your help.

Thanks so much

[RedTyger]

You can't use PHP in a vBulletin template. Sounds like OpenAds integration would require some kind of additional plugin, there might be one here if you search.

[skubaman]

I thought I read on this same thread that vb ads was compatible with openads.
So I guess I have to use javascript instead.
Thanks

[echamberlain]

You have to use javascript or the phpadsnew plugin that adds an ad's tag to the code.

[inbrissy]

Hi all,

I'm still new to php and vbulletin. I wanted to ask if its at all possible to add two more rotating banners to the header and footer of my forum. Is that something that is pretty easy to do? Can someone give me a hand with doing that?

It would be much appreciated.