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vB Ad Management 4 · **Released**: 11-08-2006

vB Ad Management 4

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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.

Quote:

* Find  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   in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

imported_silkroad · #**2112** 12-23-2007, 03:55 PM

Hello,

On the next release, can you include an option in the registered users CP to view the ads if they want to?

Right now our forums, like most I suspect, don't show for registered users. That's OK. However, some registered users, like me, want to see the ads!

Or, is there a simply way to add this option to the user CP?

Sandy-XXX · #**2113** 12-23-2007, 06:33 PM

Conditionals are no working... (click here)

And I would like to show ads in attachment.php, Its possible?

kronnos · #**2114** 12-24-2007, 07:49 PM

Ok, one huge question. ( spent the whole day and could not do it

)
I would like to have 2 leftcolumn ads one under the other. If I paste $leftcolumn_advertisement 2 times in my header template they appear right next to each other and not one under the other like I would want it. I know it would show 2 same ads but I would first like to be able to place them one under the other instead of lined up next to each other pushing the forum out.

Thank You

pnd · #**2115** 12-24-2007, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kronnos

Ok, one huge question. ( spent the whole day and could not do it

)
I would like to have 2 leftcolumn ads one under the other. If I paste $leftcolumn_advertisement 2 times in my header template they appear right next to each other and not one under the other like I would want it. I know it would show 2 same ads but I would first like to be able to place them one under the other instead of lined up next to each other pushing the forum out.

Thank You

try

$leftcolumn_advertisement
 
$leftcolumn_advertisement

Robert Paulson · #**2116** 12-24-2007, 10:10 PM

I'm using 3.7.8 and am getting:

Quote:

Warning: main(./includes/vb_ad_management/functions_vb_ad_management.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/vb_ad_management.php on line 12

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening './includes/vb_ad_management/functions_vb_ad_management.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /admincp/vb_ad_management.php on line 12

I searched the thread and re-read the installation instructions and I did everything right(seemingly).

Any ideas?

DuitFX · #**2117** 12-25-2007, 01:24 AM

hi,

i'm newbie here and confuse to use vb ad management 4.

1. is it possible to add 2 column or more at left column ... or add 2,3 column at right column?
- if possible

a) how to do it and where. What's the steps one by one. i'm very new with vbulletin.

2. is this compatible with ultimate side column ? or i dont need anymore ultimate side column if i use vb ad management ?

i've been looking all over the place still didn't find answer and currently very blur.

Thanks a lot for any answer.

kronnos · #**2118** 12-25-2007, 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pnd

try

$leftcolumn_advertisement
 
$leftcolumn_advertisement

doesnt seem to work. They are still next to each other just not even (the second column is a little lower then first but not under

tekguru · #**2119** 12-25-2007, 09:27 AM

I use this which works for me:

PHP Code:


			
<table border=0 align=center>

ADDCODE HERE

</TABLE>

<br />

<TABLE BORDER="0" >

ADDCODE HERE

</TABLE>

<br />

<TABLE BORDER="0" >

ADDCODE HERE

</TABLE>

Works for me

eJM · #**2120** 12-25-2007, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pnd

try

$leftcolumn_advertisement
 
$leftcolumn_advertisement

With this code, the advertisements you put in the ad code block will appear twice. The idea was to have 2 different ads appear one after the other.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tekguru

I use this which works for me:

PHP Code:


			
<table border=0 align=center>

ADDCODE HERE

</TABLE>

<br />

<TABLE BORDER="0" >

ADDCODE HERE

</TABLE>

<br />

<TABLE BORDER="0" >

ADDCODE HERE

</TABLE>

Works for me

I don't know if that really works, but it certainly is broken code. vBulletin is valid XHTML Transitional. Nothing a hack or style does should break that. The code you posted above does.

If you want 2 different ads to fall in-line vertically, the easiest code to use is this in the ad code block (you don't need to edit the templates):

Code:

[first ad code]
<br />
[second ad code]

If you want 2 different ads to appear in-line horizontally, use this code:

Code:

[first ad code]&nbsp;[second ad code]

If you use rotating ads and still want 2 ads to show at once, place your separator (the default separator is the vertical bar "|") between the sets of double ads - each set consists of a [first ad code] and [second ad code]. It might appear like this for a vertical ad:

Code:

[first ad code]
<br />
[second ad code]|
[first ad code]
<br />
[second ad code]|
[first ad code]
<br />
[second ad code]

That would produce 3 different sets of ads as long as the ad code you used was different for each ad. That doesn't mean you have to have 6 different ads (or however many repeats you make). You can use the same ad code more than once, but have it appear on top in one view and on bottom in the other.

If centering the ads are an issue for you, the easiest solution for that is with this code used for each of the examples above:

Code:

<div align="center">[first ad code]</div>
<div align="center">[second ad code]</div>

Code:

<div align="center">[first ad code]&nbsp;[second ad code]</div>

Code:

<div align="center">[first ad code]</div>
<div align="center">[second ad code]</div>|
<div align="center">[first ad code]</div>
<div align="center">[second ad code]</div>|
<div align="center">[first ad code]</div>
<div align="center">[second ad code]</div>

As you can see, I left out the in the vertical code. Using DIVs causes an automatic line break similar to using . However, if you find the ads appear to touch each other and that might confuse the user, or be against the TOS of the advertiser, you can add the after the first set of DIVs:

Code:

<div align="center">[first ad code]</div>
<br />
<div align="center">[second ad code]</div>

All of this code depends a great deal on the code you are supplied by your advertiser. That code may already contain centering or table/div structure. My experience with most advertisers though, is they don't really care if their code is valid and they don't really care about how it affects your users, as long as it gives them an advertisement that someone will click on. I often times find myself having to fix the rendering code of the advertisement or asking the advertiser to do something about the code script that makes page loads slow to a crawl. But of course, that doesn't have anything to do with this particular discussion.

While I'm here: The terminology is ad=advertisement add=mathematic function

Jim
PS: Merry Christmas

tekguru · #**2121** 12-25-2007, 04:17 PM

Well yes I know the code posted was a bit iffy as a snippet, but I was trying to show that using works.

However you recommend using DIV instead of using seperate aligned tables?

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