Add-On Releases - Adsense Revenue Sharing for 3.5.x and 3.6.x

Overview
This hack will allow you to offer Google Adsense revenue sharing to your vBulletin board users. Basic idea generated by AlexanderT, who developed the hack for previous version.

* Revenue is split between board administrator and thread starters.

* User needs to enter their Adsense Publisher ID and Channel ID (optional) in the edit profile.

* The percentage of probability is customizable by the administrator

* Number of min. post in order to show the ads is customizable by administrator.

* Works on 3.5.x and 3.6.x



Demo
http://www.spoofee.com/forums/



Background
Thanks to webmastershome for creating this and rob30uk for making it easier by creating a plugin and I suppose myself for small tweak


Instructions ( literally takes 5 minutes to install )

1. Download zip file and extract ( 3 files : adsense_admin.php, adsense_revenue_sharing.xml, cpnav_adsensesharing.xml )


2. Add Adsense Client ID and Channel ID to your user profile fields
1. Add the following following new user profile field in AdminCP:
Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Google AdSense Client ID
Description: If you have an AdSense account, you can enter your client ID here. You then have a 50% chance that the AdSense ads displayed are credited to your account on threads you participate in. It should be in the form of <b>pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</b>
Max length of allowed user input: 20
Display Size: 25
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No

2. Add the following following new user profile field in AdminCP:
Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: Google AdSense Channel ID
Description: If you choose to enter your AdSense client ID, you can specify a channel ID as well.<br /><br />It would be a good idea to have a unique channel ID for this forum (then you can track stats specifically for the forum).<br />
Max length of allowed user input: 10
Display Size: 25
Field Required: No
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: No
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No


3. Go back to userfield manager and get the field# of the two new fields you created. (ex : field5, field6)


4. Open adsense_revenue_sharing.xml and change the field5 to whatever your adsense field# is and field6 to whatever your channel field# is


5. Add Adsense snippet in your style
- Go to Admincp->Styles & Templates->Style Manager->Edit Templates->Post Bit (if you are using legacy style, choose to edit "Post Bit Legacy"

Add the following to the bottom of your postbit.

<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1">
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND ($post[postid] == $GLOBALS['qrfirstpostid'])">
<if condition="$show['spacer']">$spacer_open<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"></if>

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" bordercolor=white width="100%" align="center">
<tr><td class="alt1" style="padding:0px">
<div class="smallfont" align="center">
                <script type="text/javascript"><!--
                google_ad_client = "$post[ad_client_id]";
                google_ad_width = 728;
                google_ad_height = 90;
                google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
                google_ad_channel ="$post[ad_channel]";
                google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
                google_color_link = "000000";
                google_color_url = "666666";
                google_color_text = "333333";
                //--></script>
                <script type="text/javascript"
               src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
                </script>
</div></td></tr></table>

<if condition="$show['spacer']"></div>$spacer_close</if>
</if>
</if>

6. Import adsense_revenue_sharing.xml plugin


7. Upload cpnav_adsensesharing.xml to forums/includes/xml/


8. Upload adsense_admin.php to forums/admincp/


9. Configure
- Go to admincp, now you will see "Adsense Share Settings" where you can configure how much revenue you want to share!

10. Click here to mark it as INSTALLED!

[iwarrior]

Hey guys, I just managed to install this in 3.7.3

[dthbah2006]

Originally Posted by iwarrior

Hey guys, I just managed to install this in 3.7.3

Does this work on Version 3.7.3?

How would you be able to test to see if it is working?

[tsptom]

This has been a great mod for me. Any chance of getting a version for the blogs? I would definitely vote it as MOTM if it happens!

Thanks!

[clasione]

I never did get this to work properly, but I would like to give it another whirl.... Any chance there is a version for 3.7 yet?

[vwdforum]

Will this work 100% with 3.7 ??

[vwdforum]

I can't get this to work on my site. Its not populating the
$post[ad_channel] and $post[ad_client_id] and just leaving them as that text

[dthbah2006]

Originally Posted by kenji4861

Yes, this is only for the postbit/postbit legacy, but you can slightly modify the copy/paste code anywhere on your style and it'll work.

Did anyone learn how to use this on other parts of the forum like the header and other spots on the forum?

This mod works great for me. I just want to use it on other locations other than the second spot on threads.

Thanks,

[tsptom]

Originally Posted by dthbah2006

Did anyone learn how to use this on other parts of the forum like the header and other spots on the forum?

This mod works great for me. I just want to use it on other locations other than the second spot on threads.

Not in the header, but you can add it every X number of posts.

This one puts one after the 1st post and 9th post. It also checks to make sure the member has at least 50 posts.

<!-- post $post[postid] popup menu -->

<!-- / Google AdSense in Posts begin -->

<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1 OR $post[postcount] % 9 == 0"> 
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND  $post[postid] == $GLOBALS['qrfirstpostid']">   </if>

<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    </div>
    $spacer_close
</if>

<if condition="$show['spacer']">
    $spacer_open
    <div id="edit$post[postid]" style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
    <if condition="!$post['islastshown']">
   <!-- this is not the last post shown on the page -->
    </if>    
</if>

<table class="tborder" id="post$post[postid]" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
   <td class="thead" id="td_post_$post[postid]">  
   <div class="normal">
        &nbsp;
     </div>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1" align="center">
        <div>
     <!-- Adsense standard banner start -->
       <center>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
if('$post[field6]' == '' || $post[posts] <= 50)
        {
            google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
            google_ad_channel = "";
        }
        else
        {
            google_ad_client = "$post[field6]";
            google_ad_channel = "$post[field7]";
        }
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = ["f5f5ff"];
google_color_bg = ["f5f5ff"];
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_url = ["000000","008000","008000","008000"];
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script></center>     <!-- Adsense standard banner End -->

[tcmcem]

nice hack.

i want to put the adsense on the top of my forum near to logo but i cant edit the code for top of the code adsense place. does anyone has the code to put it on near of the logo

thanks

[MisterLaO]

how do you confirm if this is working after the installation???


i just placed the entire script in the locations i want my google ads to be and changed the part where the pub is found

example:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
/* 468x60, created 12/24/08 */
google_ad_slot = "7982207914";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

just changed "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" to "$post[ad_client_id]" and added the:

google_ad_channel ="$post[ad_channel]";

somewhere within the script..


is this ok??????