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

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Bulent Tekcan

I found only this request https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...de#post2165990 can you share me the solution link ?

There is no "solution link". A preview simply isn't a feature available in this addon.

[Scream And Fly]

Hi All,

I could really use your help.
I have been using this addon for many years on my site at http://www.screamandfly.com/forum.php

It's absolutely fantastic, and I depend on it very much. I have one issue that I have never been able to resolve and I could really use your help.

I am only able to add a maximum of four vertical banners, in positions 1, 2, 3, and 4. If I try to add a banner to position 5 (or any higher number), it will not show. I am not sure where to look to fix this.

I would be most grateful for any guidance. I would very much like to add more than four banners.

Thank you so much!

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Scream And Fly

Hi All,

I could really use your help.
I have been using this addon for many years on my site at http://www.screamandfly.com/forum.php

It's absolutely fantastic, and I depend on it very much. I have one issue that I have never been able to resolve and I could really use your help.

I am only able to add a maximum of four vertical banners, in positions 1, 2, 3, and 4. If I try to add a banner to position 5 (or any higher number), it will not show. I am not sure where to look to fix this.

I would be most grateful for any guidance. I would very much like to add more than four banners.

Thank you so much!

Hello

1. check that you actually have a banner in the database and is set up to show on location 5 (duplicate one you can see, just to make sure it is working, replace it later with the one you want to show);
2. copy the placeholder (in your template) for location 4 below or beneath it, then replace the number 4 with 5;
3. use a computer ... tablets and phones have problems with copy and paste;

When all 3 conditions apply then there is really no reason why the banner is not showing up. Eventually, you can go into the options and see if you have modified the recommended number of max banners from "10" to "4".

[dwerden]

I thought I had found a way to rename banner.php to resource.php, but now I can't seem to make that work. Is there a way to have the code look for the new name to display a banner? I'm trying to get around AdBlock (my ads are all hand-made and very specific to my forum).

Thanks.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dwerden

I thought I had found a way to rename banner.php to resource.php, but now I can't seem to make that work. Is there a way to have the code look for the new name to display a banner? I'm trying to get around AdBlock (my ads are all hand-made and very specific to my forum).

Thanks.

If you use an editor which allows you to replace words in all open documents, use that to make these changes. Essentially you may rename anything, as long as the changes match all over the project (and file names).

[bazookajoe]

Can anyone assist me via PM regarding this mod. I have a few questions and would rather communicate via PM so I dont sound like the idiot I probably am.

Thanks in advance!

[bazookajoe]

Im having a redirect error when a new banner I just added is clicked on. I've checked the settings in the rotating banner ad console and all appears to be correct but it wont redirect properly. All the existing banners are working properly. Suggestions?

[rhody401]

can you be more specific about the error? Are you including the full HTTP: or HTTPS: in the link?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

Im having a redirect error when a new banner I just added is clicked on. I've checked the settings in the rotating banner ad console and all appears to be correct but it wont redirect properly. All the existing banners are working properly. Suggestions?

Making a holiday exception ... couldn't you just duplicate a working banner and make changes on the duplicate?

[bazookajoe]

Originally Posted by rhody401

can you be more specific about the error? Are you including the full HTTP: or HTTPS: in the link?

Thanks for pointing out a dumb mistake. Its now fixed.