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

[jnrdavo]

Hi guys,

I've searched through pages of this mod, but can't seem to find an answer.

I would like to be able to place an add in the right hand column, but can't seem to find the template to do it... Can anybody help?

It's the only reason that I haven't converted my forum to vb4 as I'm still using vbadmanagement as it seems to work.

This looks much better, but need to be able to work out how to display the add correct. Could I use the new Forum Blocks with this code?

My website is http://www.ozaudi.com, you can see what I am trying to achieve...

UPDATE I've managed to get it to work in one of my new forums (www.ozbmw.com) that is running on VB4.0.2....

However, if I use the VB Blocks, the user can close them and that's not ideal. So still after any help with what template could be used for a right hand column (hopefully to sit where the current blocks are).

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by jnrdavo

Hi guys,

I've searched through pages of this mod, but can't seem to find an answer.

I would like to be able to place an add in the right hand column, but can't seem to find the template to do it... Can anybody help?

It's the only reason that I haven't converted my forum to vb4 as I'm still using vbadmanagement as it seems to work.

This looks much better, but need to be able to work out how to display the add correct. Could I use the new Forum Blocks with this code?

My website is http://www.ozaudi.com, you can see what I am trying to achieve...

UPDATE I've managed to get it to work in one of my new forums (www.ozbmw.com) that is running on VB4.0.2....

However, if I use the VB Blocks, the user can close them and that's not ideal. So still after any help with what template could be used for a right hand column (hopefully to sit where the current blocks are).

In order to ad a column to the standard layout of your pages, you would have to add a table right below the <body> tag and add one or more columns, and close the table right at the bottom of the page, before the </body> tag.

Your layout would roughly look like:

<body>

<table>
    <tr>
        <td style="width: 100%;">
            Original template contents (header, navbar, contents, footer)
        </td>
        <td style="width: 160px;">
            Additional right column, 160 pixels wide.
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

</body>

[jnrdavo]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

In order to ad a column to the standard layout of your pages, you would have to add a table right below the <body> tag and add one or more columns, and close the table right at the bottom of the page, before the </body> tag.

Your layout would roughly look like:

<body>

<table>
    <tr>
        <td style="width: 100%;">
            Original template contents (header, navbar, contents, footer)
        </td>
        <td style="width: 160px;">
            Additional right column, 160 pixels wide.
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

</body>

thanks, I really appreciate your help.

Would this be able to go under the new 'Forum Blocks' that are available in VB4.0?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by jnrdavo

thanks, I really appreciate your help.

Would this be able to go under the new 'Forum Blocks' that are available in VB4.0?

I do think so, but vBulletin is still undergoing many changes, so I would not rely too much on them.

[JWL]

I cannot get any banner to work at all

I have installed it uninstalled it and tried everything listed in these forums

Site is www.NorCalCanyonCarvers.com

VB Version is 3.8.4 PL2
VBadvanced is 3.2.1

Just not showing up

Update

Got it to work following the instructions for VBseo. User in the option @vbbanners:%d@ with out the <!-- -->

But the only place these ads appear is in the below navbar

I can use my Google, Adsense in Admincp for that.

Pretty buggy stuff if you ask me

One thing I have been noticing is every single ad I create is set for start date to be 2 days ahead. So example is, Today is 3/8/10 The Start date is 3/10/10 Odd. Just caught that. Uninstalled and reinstalled same issue. I think I will wait until this is a far more stable system. I like it an all, but I can accomplish the same thing just by putting my adsense code where i want it. I am a new site so it is no big deal to me right now.

For the larger sites, tis is just to much work I might as well install phpads

[y2ksw]

The date/time problem is most certainly a problem with your board's timezone settings, and likely an additional problem with your server, running a day ahead.

This software can't and won't ever fix problems with servers, browsers and vbulletin styles. I'm almost sure that your style does not support all Ad locations the vbulletin Default style does, and for this reason it may not work everywhere

[kiawah75]

I have a strange issue that I could not find an answer to. I have a google image ad that shows up just below the navigation of my site and I cant seem to get rid of it. My Google Adsense is disabled on the forum and I have disabled all of the ads in the Rotating Banner System. I have also deleted all the google image ads in the module and it still shows up. Any suggestions?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by kiawah75

I have a strange issue that I could not find an answer to. I have a google image ad that shows up just below the navigation of my site and I cant seem to get rid of it. My Google Adsense is disabled on the forum and I have disabled all of the ads in the Rotating Banner System. I have also deleted all the google image ads in the module and it still shows up. Any suggestions?

Probably it is hard-coded into your style. A few of the free styles for vBulletin have this feature enabled.

[ecky]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

In order to ad a column to the standard layout of your pages, you would have to add a table right below the <body> tag and add one or more columns, and close the table right at the bottom of the page, before the </body> tag.

I also need a side column, how do I add this and where to?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by ecky

I also need a side column, how do I add this and where to?

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