Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

Check the FAQ before requesting support!

What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by iogames

Hi Tyger! doe the new version will be my Birthday's present or my Xmas'?

Happy Christmas.

vB Ad Management 4.00 Beta released.

When any problems are dealt with, it will be released here. In the meantime, it is a test version and anyone is welcome to try it. Let me know how you get on.

[DarthCoder]

redtyger, how can I display ads before first post. I did it once but after re installing vb i forgot how.

[DAdiguzeL]

Hi RedTyger again me.
How can i remove the red things in my attachment?

here's my forums test preview:
please check my attachment and pls help me.

[class101]

You must define the table data <td> where is the banner as a height="100%", I think the height is missing but haven't tested cos I do'nt use column ads

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by DAdiguzeL

Hi RedTyger again me.
How can i remove the red things in my attachment?

here's my forums test preview:
please check my attachment and pls help me.

Sorry, I couldn't tell you with a custom theme. The columns are something that I can only really set to work with the default theme out of the box, anything else may need customising to fit. The code it searches for is in the global_start.php file.

Originally Posted by DarthCoder

redtyger, how can I display ads before first post. I did it once but after re installing vb i forgot how.

In the postbit section of the settings is an option called "Display ads with first post". Set it to yes.

[DAdiguzeL]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Sorry, I couldn't tell you with a custom theme. The columns are something that I can only really set to work with the default theme out of the box, anything else may need customising to fit. The code it searches for is in the global_start.php file.

Thanks for the reply but how can i remove the borders? From global_start.php file or some different way?

[directprint]

Can this mod also place the advert after the last post instead of the first post?

[calbano_18]

Amazing add-on! Please help me through this speed bump. I'm trying to install this and i have a different forum theme. Currently my forum only displays header ads to the admin! Where exactly should i place the $header_advertisement in my header?

PHP Code:

<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>

<!-- this the header area, including the top right navigation -->
<div id="header">
<div id="logo" ><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="images/forumheaven/main/top_a.gif" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></div>
<div id="navigation"><span id="subnavi"><span class="navigation">
<a href="index.php">Home</a>&nbsp;
<a href="memberlist.php">Members</a>&nbsp;
<a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Events</a>&nbsp;
<a href="faq.php">Help</a>&nbsp;

</span></span>
<div id="search"><form action="search.php?do=process" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" /><input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="1" /><input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" /><input style="border:0px;border-right:1px solid #f7edce;border-bottom:1px solid #f7edce;font-size:10px;" type="text" class="bginput" name="query" size="20" value="$vbphrase[search_forums]" tabindex="1001" /> &nbsp; <input type="image" src="images/forumheaven/main/search.gif" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" tabindex="1004" /></form></div>
</div>
</div>

<!-- this is the area below the header, including the member/login stuff -->

<div id="highlights_container">
<div id="highlights_a"><if condition="$show['member']"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2"><img src="images/forumheaven/main/highlights_a.gif" alt="$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]" /></a><else /><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily" accesskey="2"><img src="images/forumheaven/main/highlights_a.gif" alt="$vbphrase[todays_posts]" /></a></if></div>
<div id="highlights_b"><if condition="$show['registerbutton']"><a href="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="images/forumheaven/main/highlights_b.gif" alt="$vbphrase[register]" /></a><else /><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="images/forumheaven/main/profile.gif" alt="$vbphrase[user_cp]" /></a></if></div>
<div id="highlights_c">
<form action="login.php?do=login" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
<span id="member"><if condition="$show['member']"><strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase></strong><br /><if condition="$show['pmmainlink']"><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if>
<if condition="$show['pmwarning']"><strong><phrase 1="$vbphrase[pmpercent_nav_compiled]">$vbphrase[your_pm_box_is_x_full]</phrase></strong></if><else />
&nbsp; <label for="navbar_username"><input type="text" class="bginput" style="font-size: 10px;background-color:#7b7b7b;border-top:1px solid #6d6d6d;border-left:1px solid #6d6d6d;border-right:1px solid #8b8b8b; border-bottom:1px solid #8b8b8b;color:white;" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="12" accesskey="u" tabindex="101" value="$vbphrase[username]" onfocus="if (this.value == '$vbphrase[username]') this.value = '';" /></label> &nbsp; <label for="navbar_password"><input type="password" class="bginput" style="font-size: 10px;background-color:#7b7b7b;border-top:1px solid #6d6d6d;border-left:1px solid #6d6d6d;border-right:1px solid #8b8b8b; border-bottom:1px solid #8b8b8b;color:white;" name="vb_login_password" id="navbar_password" size="12" tabindex="102" /></label> &nbsp; <input type="image" src="images/forumheaven/main/go.gif" class="button" value="$vbphrase[log_in]" tabindex="104" title="$vbphrase[enter_username_to_login_or_register]" accesskey="s" /><br />

&nbsp; <label for="cb_cookieuser_navbar"><input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" />$vbphrase[remember_me]</label>
        <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
        <input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />        
        <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
        <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
        


</if></span></form>



</div>
</div>
<!-- /logo -->



<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open
$leftcolumn_advertisement

$_phpinclude_output 


[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by DAdiguzeL

Thanks for the reply but how can i remove the borders? From global_start.php file or some different way?

I'd really ask the person who designed your style, they'd know best. In the global_start.php are two lines with the left/right_column bits of code (its obvious where they are) with some HTML which is what is added to the style.

Originally Posted by directprint

Can this mod also place the advert after the last post instead of the first post?

Yes, it's just an on/off button.

Originally Posted by calbano_18

Amazing add-on! Please help me through this speed bump. I'm trying to install this and i have a different forum theme. Currently my forum only displays header ads to the admin! Where exactly should i place the $header_advertisement in my header?

Not to sound unhelpful, but you can put it anywhere you like. If it doesn't look right, just move it until it does. Sounds like you may not have changed the Usergroup setting in Global Settings yet, all ads show to the admin only by default.

[Paradise-Bodies]

Hi,

how do i setup this to show special Banners (Advertisers/Zones/Champaignes) from openads on special forums (id's). I use just the Header.