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.

[andmcgr]

Where do I put my adsense code?

[RedTyger]

AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > vB Ad Management (Pick a section) and paste it into the static adcode box.

[BrettMo]

I finally found the theme between the links that are failing. I Have been getting quite a few of these errors again.

http://
www.
russophile
.com/russia_news_feeds/390-yahoo_russia_denies_offering_host_joint_missile_sh ield_reuters-post408.html
.com/russia_blog/6-reasons_study_russian-post8.html
.com/study_russian/151-catalog_russian_programs_united_states-post168.html
com/other_russia_blogs/406-very_russian_tochka_hundredth_post-post423.html

So the common theme seems to be that they point to a particular post. Sometimes if I hit refresh the page will appear and other times it will error again.

I hope that this helps...

When you take a minute to look at those, could you do it in firefox and see if the ads show up for you? I think that I have a problem with my Firefox, but I don't have another PC to check it on.

Here is my code for the header ad:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "#shared#";
google_ad_width = 234;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "234x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
//2007-03-28: russ_header
google_ad_channel = "number";
google_color_border = "869BBF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "FF3300";
google_color_text = "000099";
google_color_url = "000099";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

I replaced a long number with the word number above because I was not sure if this number is unique to me or not.

[milsirhc]

I think I found another bug Redtyger!

Not sure if i'm the only one having the problem.. but if you try going to a user profile page and click on his last post, you will encounter a SQL error (randomly). I tried 5 times and it hit me.

The reason why I believe this is the plugin that causing it (i could be wrong) is that I disabled all my plugins and enable them one by one and I got the error when i enabled the ad management plugin.

Hmm. can someone else confirm?

Thanks!

Opps: Edited (Same bug as what Brettmo is having!)

[KipLarson]

Hey, I don't think you answered my question about premium yearly subscriptions. Is there support for this? i.e. pay to get into the premium usergroup?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by milsirhc

I think I found another bug Redtyger!

Not sure if i'm the only one having the problem.. but if you try going to a user profile page and click on his last post, you will encounter a SQL error (randomly). I tried 5 times and it hit me.

The reason why I believe this is the plugin that causing it (i could be wrong) is that I disabled all my plugins and enable them one by one and I got the error when i enabled the ad management plugin.

Hmm. can someone else confirm?

Thanks!

Opps: Edited (Same bug as what Brettmo is having!)

I'm 99% certain now that it's vBSEO that is causing these problems. Not a problem with their software, but I'm guessing that it alters thread and post details enough to cause an error in my modification, which uses the default details.

I don't mind implementing a workaround for vBSEO users if it's not too arduous, but it might be a bit tricky to deal with, since I have no testing copy of vBSEO and I can't look at their code to help with fixes anyway because they encrypt it all.

If either of you is able to get support from vBSEO, you could ask on my behalf and see if they can tell you what the problem is. Just tell them that you're trying to pull details from the database using:

SELECT post.userid, userfield.field7, user.usergroupid
FROM post AS post, userfield AS userfield, user AS user
WHERE threadid = 
AND userfield.userid = post.userid
AND user.userid = post.userid
ORDER BY post.dateline DESC
LIMIT 1;

and as you can see the threadid is not being used, it's blank. It works correctly on a non-vBSEO forum.

Oh and don't forget to post here if you've asked them so they don't get lots of enquiries. I guess if it's not vBSEO that's the problem I'll soon know about it.

Originally Posted by KipLarson

Hey, I don't think you answered my question about premium yearly subscriptions. Is there support for this? i.e. pay to get into the premium usergroup?

Yes, just use the default vBulletin Usergroups and the vB Ad Management Usergroup settings. You can restrict access by Usergroup very easily.

[karel1985]

maybe i looked over it but is there a possibily to use Ad managment block as a block in vbadvanced? exaple in left column?

gtz karel

[RedTyger]

Yes, it'll work. Just use, for instance, $GLOBALS['header_advertisement'] instead of $header_advertisement when doing your template edits.

[KipLarson]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Yes, just use the default vBulletin Usergroups and the vB Ad Management Usergroup settings. You can restrict access by Usergroup very easily.

But how do I set it up for them to pay in the first place? Like I want to be able to have my users pay to be premium members which will in turn put them in a usergroup I will set up to show less ads.

[RedTyger]

Oh I see. vBulletin's subscriptions I suppose, I don't know if you can automatically promote someone to a different usergroup if they have a subscription, I've never used it. I assume you can, it would be an odd thing for them to have left out.