Show Thread Enhancements - Digital Point Ad Positioning

About
This allows you to insert an ad into a random location within the post currently being viewed and/or insert an ad after the currently viewed post.

I made this a couple years ago for internal use and decided to release it because a few people have been requesting it.

Installation

• Install the product-dp_positionads.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
• Go to AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Digital Point Position Ads for all your settings/options.

Notes

• You can control which usergroups see ads.
• You can control which forums the ads are inserted for.
• This addon works just fine with vBulletin 3 as well as vBulletin 4.
• The ads are inserted relative to the currently viewed post, not necessarily the first/last, etc. post in a thread.
• Requires no template edits.
• Our ad revenue more than doubled when we implemented this (and we opted to only use it for non-registered members).

[Dirt Bike Addict]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

I don't think there is a way to be honest since internally there's nothing that tells us what post is actually being viewed.

PHP is over my head, but some time ago I asked Brian (from vBSEO) about this and he suggested using the $firstnew variable. If that means anything to you guys.

[android-schweiz]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

It has to do with putting an ad in the post actually being viewed. With vBSEO, it doesn't know which post is being viewed, so it just falls back to adding it to the first post (not necessarily the one actually being viewed).

hmm. But why not reading and parsing the URl with parse_url ( string $url [, int $component = -1 ] )

There you get an assoc. Array and one Field in it is called 'fragment'. This contains everything after the anchor # sign. --> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Or if this is not working, with some JS (AJAX)?

I'm really willing to pay for your work. We need it urgently working with vbseo

Cheers and thanks, tom

[digitalpoint]

parse_url() will parse the fragment out of the URL you pass to it, but the problem is we don't have the URL with the fragment to begin with. A web browser doesn't send anything after the hash to the web server, so the web server doesn't know what it is (or if the browser even has one in it's URL).

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

It has to do with putting an ad in the post actually being viewed. With vBSEO, it doesn't know which post is being viewed, so it just falls back to adding it to the first post (not necessarily the one actually being viewed).

IDK but it works exactly like it should on the vbseo boards I've added it to.
If you click "new post" thus going to the last post of the thread, the ad is in that post (the one you're viewing)

I've not done anything special other than follow the install instructions and it's working like advertised

hmm.. at least it was working correctly :|

[Dirt Bike Addict]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

IDK but it works exactly like it should on the vbseo boards I've added it to.
If you click "new post" thus going to the last post of the thread, the ad is in that post (the one you're viewing)

I've not done anything special other than follow the install instructions and it's working like advertised

hmm.. at least it was working correctly :|

If you're referring to the General Forums, it isn't working for me.

DP had sent me an "updated" version awhile ago to try with vBSEO, but unfortunately it still didn't work, even on a stock vB (with vBSEO installed of course).

[Brandon Sheley]

ya I was talking about GF, and it was working correctly when I first installed it

Maybe the last vb/vbseo update broke it, but it would show ads in post #118 if your browser was looking at that particular post.

[Dirt Bike Addict]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

ya I was talking about GF, and it was working correctly when I first installed it

Maybe the last vb/vbseo update broke it, but it would show ads in post #118 if your browser was looking at that particular post.

I've only tried it on vBSEO 3.6

[android-schweiz]

Damn. I mean. It's such a perfect peace of Mod. But useless for all of us which are using vbseo

[baghdad4ever]

Originally Posted by IndigoSociety

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hi

how to disable it in 3 style?

i tried

if (STYLEID!=14,16)

but not work

[cnrr]

hi shawn,

how can i disable this addon on the private forums and private messages?

because adsense bot couldn't access this pages.