Miscellaneous Hacks - Rotating Banner System

With the Rotating Banner System software, you may publish literally anywhere standard banners and advertising, with no restriction but your imagination. Unlike many other products, it allows to show an unlimited amount of banners and advertising, which are randomly shown at the places you choose, and you may refer generically to an Ad by using specific placeholders.

Also the management is straight-forward and simple to use. Forum administrators with maintenance rights may add, edit and delete records from the Administration Control Panel (ACP), one of each representing a banner. After saving the new banner settings, they are immediately visible at your board.

Compatibility: from vBulletin 3.6.5 onwards

By the way, I do also install the hack on your boards, but since I am very, very busy, it may take some time (weeks) until it gets done.


Tutorials:

• How-to create my first banner (Flash).

Updates:

• 2.0.1: Simple click tracker added, HTML help included.
• 2.0.3: Small bug fixes; additional banner list, navigation bar, E-Mail field for banner event notifications and automatic save on scroll setting; absolute URL to rbs_banner.php in order to allow click tracking on non-standard pages; supported languages: English, Italian; Help file clean-up.
• 2.0.5: Small bug fixes; additional details in banner list; email notification for epired banners.
• 2.0.6: vbCMS compatibility bug fix; additional banner lists.
• 2.0.7: Usergroups filter: now it is possible to define a list of usergroups which may show a banner; additional vbCMS compatibility bug fix.
• 2.0.8: Various fixes and most of all, inclusion of the right files: admin_rbs.php, cpnav_rbs.xml
• 2.0.9: Extra comma fix in new record creation.
• 2.1.0: Fix for an occasional banner type selection bug, when the sample banners have been deleted or disabled.
• 2.2.0 (Major upgrade): Up to 10 different banner locations. Requires changes to your existing placeholders in your templates, since a more generic format has been chosen. If you don't need more than 2 different locations, you don't need to upgrade. Changed files: rbs_banner.php, admin_rbs.php
• 2.2.1: Minor bug fix in files: admin_rbs_h_banner_list.php, admin_rbs_v_banner_list.php
• 2.2.1: Hotfix for Max Clicks saving bug.
• 2.2.2: More listings and less files. PDF Help. Separate Italian add-ons and help. Duplicate button.
• 2.2.3: Minor bug fixes. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.2.4: Flash Banner support (beta). Changed files: product-rbs.xml, rbs_wrapper.swf, admin_rbs.php, English Help.
• 2.2.5: Hotfix for vBulletin 4.0.2 compatibility bug.
• 2.2.6: Checking for installed Flash Wrapper rbs_wrapper.swf; A few English FAQ; Help files. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.3.0 (Major upgrade): New modules: Delete Expired Banners, Disable Expired Banners; Detail Banner Statistics with unique access key for your customers; Updated help; Changed files: all.
• 2.3.1: Hotfix for missing field in rbs_hist table. Changed files: none, just update product.
• 2.3.2: Added: Unsupported option for setting any number of available positions between 1 and big bang. Fixed: Small bug and speed issues. Removed: Italian translation. Italians may now request support at www.vbulletin.it. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.3: Fix: Copy selected forum ID's during banner duplication. Changed: start and end hours for new banners are set to 0:00 and 23:59 respectively. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.4: Option: Send Mail Before. This option allows to schedule expiring banners differently. New variables for emails: $rbs_enddate: This variable holds the formatted banner ending date and time based on the standard formats for date and time in vBulletin settings; $rbs_name: This variable holds the banner name. EMail Notifications option description: Added direct links to the email phrases for quick changes. Changed files: rbs_mail_cron.php.
• 2.4.0 (Major upgrade): Removed: Option to enable or disable mailing. Banners with email addresses to notify are handled. Setting to reset mailing in single banners. Now, if mailing should be repeated, you will have to edit the banner from phpMyAdmin. Added: Order links in lists. The initial state is ordered by ID, as before. By clicking the titles, the other voices can be ordered. Clicking twice inverts the order. This works in all lists. Options to prevent counting and reducing thus a tiny bit of load. A new bunch of demo banners for new installations. Demo banners are locked into database in order to avoid 30% of the questions because of the 'experts' deleting them before trying the product. They can be disabled and modified though. The true experts can delete them after all testing from the database by using phpMyAdmin without side effects. Changes: Phrase for emailing about expiring banners, now also with direct links to the phrases. Demo banners. Our old publisher ID is replaced with the new ones, and old demo banners are updated with the new ones, if found. The functions have been exported to includes/functions_rbs.php. This makes the product code smaller and easier to maintain, and runs faster on sites where caching/acceleration is enabled. Changed Files: all *.php
• 2.4.1: Option Likelihood. This new option adds a weight to banners and allows thus to show one banner more often than another. The default weight is 100%. We also make sure that the final date of the default banners falls into a valid range. Changed files: includes/functions_rbs.php and rbs_stats.php.
• 2.4.2: Workaround for update sequence problems.

Hacks and unsupported add-ons:

• Banner Rotator Widget To CMS
• Rotate banners in-place
• Italian Translation

[clauz]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Isn't this great?

What kind of banner is this? If it is a scripted banner, it may need adjusting the z-order. However I'm not a great help in CSS/HTML ...

Hello, it is a flash banner, located on:
"images/banner1.swf"

There is any way this could be fixed?

Here are my setting for banners:

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by clauz

Hello, it is a flash banner, located on:
"images/banner1.swf"

There is any way this could be fixed?

Here are my setting for banners:

I don't believe it can be fixed. The flash wrapper does its best to stay underneath popup elements (menues, images) and most times does.

You may try to load normal image instead of the swf file (keeping the flash option on) and if the problem disappears, then the problem may be the transparent setting of the flash banner itself.

[clauz]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

I don't believe it can be fixed. The flash wrapper does its best to stay underneath popup elements (menues, images) and most times does.

You may try to load normal image instead of the swf file (keeping the flash option on) and if the problem disappears, then the problem may be the transparent setting of the flash banner itself.

Thank you for your answer.
Unfortunately the swf banners are "custom made" by a design company, i have promised them that they can use SWF files instead of animated gif, for quality reason.

[fuyunobara]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Try a style attribute with "margin: 10px;"

sorry for my thick-ass response but where do i put that?

great mod btw!

tried this and it has not worked.

i have the code inputted in to the style code under this in the header section, as if i place it above or anywhere else it sits in completely the wrong place any better place to put it?

<div class="above_body"> <!-- closing tag is in template navbar -->
<div id="header" class="floatcontainer doc_header">
	<vb:if condition="$stylevar['titleimage']"><div><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}" class="logo-image"><img src="{vb:stylevar titleimage}" alt="{vb:rawphrase x_powered_by_vbulletin, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}" /></a></div></vb:if>

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by fuyunobara

sorry for my thick-ass response but where do i put that?

great mod btw!

tried this and it has not worked.

i have the code inputted in to the style code under this in the header section, as if i place it above or anywhere else it sits in completely the wrong place any better place to put it?

<div class="above_body"> <!-- closing tag is in template navbar -->
<div id="header" class="floatcontainer doc_header">
    <vb:if condition="$stylevar['titleimage']"><div><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}" class="logo-image"><img src="{vb:stylevar titleimage}" alt="{vb:rawphrase x_powered_by_vbulletin, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}" /></a></div></vb:if>

I'm sure I'll regret you helping in HTML (since I don't know enough), but here it is:

<div style="margin: 10px;"><!--@vbbanners:0@--></div>

[xoninet]

anyone help me ,I do not see this why? ad_header_logo

http://s10.postimg.org/m9twvu4o9/header_logo.png

[Videx]

Originally Posted by xoninet

anyone help me ,I do not see this why? ad_header_logo

http://s10.postimg.org/m9twvu4o9/header_logo.png

I don't think there is supposed to be one. I just checked and I don't have one either (vb 4.2.1).

[muimui]

hi,how to put the banner under first post?

[webmaster74]

thank you for the new version, but how do I upgrade my current version?

should I uninstall my current version and install the new?

I don't want to lose any of my banners or their stats.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by webmaster74

thank you for the new version, but how do I upgrade my current version?

should I uninstall my current version and install the new?

I don't want to lose any of my banners or their stats.

No, just upgrade as you would do with a normal product (upload the changed files, import the product-rbs.xml file with overwrite option on).