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

[Basit Kingz]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Try

<param name="movie" value="./images/signalfeeds.swf" />

Let me try. Thanks.

[Basit Kingz]

Same result Rotating Banner System did not respond.
Moreover If I place the same coding that I have mentioned above in advertisement built in feature of VB 4 it started working. But I want this banner with simple image banner.

[Basit Kingz]

So, Can we post Flash Banner with simple image banners ?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Basit Kingz

Hi.!
I have installed Rotating Banner System. I have created different image banners that are working fine. But Whenever I have tried to add Flash/SWF banner with those image banner it does not show SWF banner with those image banners.
Here is the code I am using for file signalfeeds.swf.

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="780" height="18" id="yourflashbanner" align="middle">
                    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                    <param name="movie" value="images/signalfeeds.swf" />
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                    <embed src="images/signalfeeds.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="780" height="18" name="yourflashbanner" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Moreover this is settings preview.
Attachment 148893

Thanks in Advance

If you use your own code, you cannot use also images and landing pages

You may: Clear and uncheck everything (also click tracking does not work) and just put your code in the "Text" field.

OR: Enable the Flash wrapper, your current settings, and set the sizes, of course, use the full http path to your SWF, and clear the "Text" field.

AND: Please don't contact me in private. I am already notified about new messages and I somewhat hate to get additionally remembered about my duties. It's a bit like getting up early and have my mom shouting at me not to come late ... at the age of 50

[Basit Kingz]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

If you use your own code, you cannot use also images and landing pages

You may: Clear and uncheck everything (also click tracking does not work) and just put your code in the "Text" field.

OR: Enable the Flash wrapper, your current settings, and set the sizes, of course, use the full http path to your SWF, and clear the "Text" field.

AND: Please don't contact me in private. I am already notified about new messages and I somewhat hate to get additionally remembered about my duties. It's a bit like getting up early and have my mom shouting at me not to come late ... at the age of 50

(Pardon me for private invitation )
Roger that Sir/. Thanks for being here.

[Basit Kingz]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

If you use your own code, you cannot use also images and landing pages

You may: Clear and uncheck everything (also click tracking does not work) and just put your code in the "Text" field.

OR: Enable the Flash wrapper, your current settings, and set the sizes, of course, use the full http path to your SWF, and clear the "Text" field.

AND: Please don't contact me in private. I am already notified about new messages and I somewhat hate to get additionally remembered about my duties. It's a bit like getting up early and have my mom shouting at me not to come late ... at the age of 50

I have testified the given instructions. May be I can't fully understand it but it's not working on my end.
I have a banner uploaded it thorugh FTP to my forum Images directory. Kindly Guide me to setup it for banner rotation. I have spend allot of time on it. Images banner are working fine but flash banner is not showing at least.
Where as if the same code is placed in built in advertisement feature of VB4 it start working. But I want to rotate it which is only possible with Banner Rotating System.

[gsmlover4u]

can use it for google adsense

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by gsmlover4u

can use it for google adsense

If this is a question, yes

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Basit Kingz

I have testified the given instructions. May be I can't fully understand it but it's not working on my end.
I have a banner uploaded it thorugh FTP to my forum Images directory. Kindly Guide me to setup it for banner rotation. I have spend allot of time on it. Images banner are working fine but flash banner is not showing at least.
Where as if the same code is placed in built in advertisement feature of VB4 it start working. But I want to rotate it which is only possible with Banner Rotating System.

Are you using the wrapper?

[MIWASA]

hi would you be so kind as to link or show me how i can get banners to display on my forum.php and content.php pages please