Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

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.

* 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.

[Pottsy]

Redtyger, thanks for that - but...

I use your software to post an ad and the end of a thread, the one where it looks like it's from a user. So I have enabled ads everywhere and now my headers and footers work. I enable the post at the bottom ad, and they appear everywhere. I put the conditional around the $postbit_advertisment and they all disappear. It's as if it doesn't know which forum the thread is in.

I really liked the way it worked in 2.1 - can I revert without horrible errors?

[RedTyger]

Ah, for a postbit conditional it would be different, $thread[forumid] or something perhaps, I can't remember.

You can use any version you want without issue.

[Mecho]

Thanks for update ..

problem is :
after upgrade when i active " threadbit " i got Blank page in forums !

any idea ?

[alternity]

Is it possible to make it so there is an option that members can choose in their profile or somewhere so that they can choose if the ads will display or not, independent of their usergroup?

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

If you use the Ad-Sharing version it's essentially impossible.

Is the NON Ad-sharing version still available?

[Pottsy]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

You can use any version you want without issue.

Thanks - did this and there were no problems, and now I can restrict adverts to one or two forums and keep the header/footer everywhere.

[Roby75]

i've an error with nable threadbit advertisements? ON:


Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /forumdisplay.php(905) : eval()'d code on line 119

Attachment 61430


What can i do?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Mecho

Thanks for update ..

problem is :
after upgrade when i active " threadbit " i got Blank page in forums !

any idea ?

You'll have to be more specific than that...

Originally Posted by alternity

Is it possible to make it so there is an option that members can choose in their profile or somewhere so that they can choose if the ads will display or not, independent of their usergroup?

You could do it yourself with a custom field and a template edit, but there's no way for me to add it to the modification without significantly lowering performance (one extra query per page load).

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

Is the NON Ad-sharing version still available?

Not officially, though there's nothing to stop you using it. There's no particular reason to do so though, since the Ad-sharing version performs slightly better than the 2.1 version whether you're using the Ad-sharing feature or not. You can just turn it off.

[sensimilla]

Originally Posted by Roby75

i've an error with nable threadbit advertisements? ON:


Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /forumdisplay.php(905) : eval()'d code on line 119

Attachment 61430


What can i do?

same errors here.. so its a bug.