Version: 2.4.2, by y2ksw
Developer Last Online: Feb 2023
Category: Miscellaneous Hacks -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 08-15-2008
Last Update: 09-08-2013
Installs: 1237
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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.
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.
2.0.7: 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.
I'm having a problem with 'header position 2' in the vB advertising configuration. The banner appears, but it's not hard up on the right side of the forum header.
Header position 1 is fine. It's hard left, but I don't want one there.
Anyone else had this and come up with a work around?
I need some help placing the placeholders. I want to place two vertical banners to the right of the forum. How can I accomplish this, what template do I need to edit?
I'm having a problem with 'header position 2' in the vB advertising configuration. The banner appears, but it's not hard up on the right side of the forum header.
Header position 1 is fine. It's hard left, but I don't want one there.
Anyone else had this and come up with a work around?
This is a known bug in 4.01. The header banners are not working as they should.
This may be fixed in 4.02... or 4.03... or 4.04... inquire at vBulletin.com.
in particular with vbulletin 4.x, which is yet in development.
Yes. It was supposed to be a Gold release but it's not even close to that... maybe RC3 even after the 4.01 release. And it's clear there will still be a lot of bugs remaining even after 4,02.
Well, of course vb4 will be "in development" until vb5 is released. But the important thing to remember is that any work you do in vb3 is basically wasted now, because it is no longer in development.
Most people that have taken the time have found vb4 to be quite nice. Yes, there are bugs, but they're being addressed in a timely fashion.
Well, of course vb4 will be "in development" until vb5 is released. But the important thing to remember is that any work you do in vb3 is basically wasted now, because it is no longer in development.
Most people that have taken the time have found vb4 to be quite nice. Yes, there are bugs, but they're being addressed in a timely fashion.
I'm not slagging vB4 - it will eventually be a decent product. I'm merely stating the obvious: The developers boxed themselves into a corner with the time-limited price incentives for upgrading to the suite. Given that customers had only a limited time ro respond to the offer before it disappeared combined with the fact that those customers were essentially buying the promise of a product rather than one they could actually "touch and feel", vBulletin needed to release something before the end of 2009. The problem is that they really weren't ready to release it and to call 4.0 or even 4.01 a "Gold" release is an insult.
One consequence is that we are now in the position of creating our own work-arounds for bugs in 4.00 or 4.01 that may disappear or morph into an entirely different bug by 4.02 or 4.03.
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