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!

[tsptom]

Are you sharing?

[Brandon Sheley]

seems to be working great on 3.6.4

would be nice to get group permissions set in this

/me installs

[jamsiejay]

I still cannot find anywere to have this working on header template or homepage template.

I am sure someone here know how it can be done please can you post i am in need of this before i can launch it to my members.

[jamsiejay]

Can somebody please help me i have pm'd and posted plenty but nobody can help please can someone offer help.

[jamsiejay]

Even a guess at this stage would be helpfull i just cannot find anyone to help me i have posted dozens of threads etc nobody can get this working outside postbit template.

[tsptom]

jamsiejay -
I'm not getting much help either with a similar question. I posed it to the programming forum and got a little hint that I have yet to try....

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...72#post1176372

[jamsiejay]

Ive checked your thread it never got it working thankyou for the help.

Please anyone HELP!

[jamsiejay]

I Will Give You Free Advertising If You Can Help Me .

[jamsiejay]

C'Mon Challenge your skills please let me know how to get this working in the forumhome, header template.

I am not able to launch my forum till i have it done i paid a programmer but they couldn't do it and never refunded me.

I am really in need for this.

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Will offer forum sponsor advertising to whomever can figure it out it.

[Profusehost]

Originally Posted by stormy_

i installed it but not sure if it's showing the ads with members ID. i even set it on 100% sharing but still showing with admin ID.

secondly has anyone noticed that it's showing adsense ID in profile of user?

like: http://www.yourforum.com/member.php?u=5

you are probably viewing the profile as admin. I am sure as a member or guest, you will not see the publisher ID.