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.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

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

Originally Posted by rnmcd

Is the NON Ad-sharing version still available?

Originally Posted by RedTyger

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.

So it wouldn't be impossible if I used the Ad-Sharing version (just as long as I turned it off), right?

[RedTyger]

Not really, no. I'm afraid it's just not built to do what you're after.

[Itworx4me]

Any chance that you will make this track ad clicks??? Then have it show how many clicks or impressions the ad gets to the buyer through some type of login area?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[Skipsoutdoors]

Red,

I appreciate your work on this item, it's something I need and will really use.

I've got one error that I have found so far, it's with the threadbit ad. This shows up at the top of the Forumdisplay page when it's turned on.


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

When it's turned off, no error.

Any idea where that might be coming from?


Another question:

If you notice in my header I have the large Google ad and 7 smaller 125x125 ad locations. I would like to fix it so that each of the smaller locations is controlled separately. Right now I moved the right and left ad location to those and that's why there's 3 and 3 the same. An alternate would be to fix the random ad display on the left and right locations so that instead of all 3 having the same ad, they each have a different ad from the random list.

Again, thanks for your work.

Skip

http://www.sportsmanshomepage.com

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Itworx4me

Any chance that you will make this track ad clicks??? Then have it show how many clicks or impressions the ad gets to the buyer through some type of login area?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

That is not likely. It was intended for people using third party trackers like phpAdsNew, Google Adsense, Yahoo Ads etc. The other good reason not to is that currently aside from the optional Adsharing, this modification ads no queries to the running of the forum. Tracking would add database queries on every page by necessity, not something I want to do.

Originally Posted by Skipsoutdoors

Red,

I appreciate your work on this item, it's something I need and will really use.

I've got one error that I have found so far, it's with the threadbit ad. This shows up at the top of the Forumdisplay page when it's turned on.


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

When it's turned off, no error.

Any idea where that might be coming from?


Another question:

If you notice in my header I have the large Google ad and 7 smaller 125x125 ad locations. I would like to fix it so that each of the smaller locations is controlled separately. Right now I moved the right and left ad location to those and that's why there's 3 and 3 the same. An alternate would be to fix the random ad display on the left and right locations so that instead of all 3 having the same ad, they each have a different ad from the random list.

Again, thanks for your work.

Skip

http://www.sportsmanshomepage.com

Are you using the latest version release a few hours ago? It should fix the first problem. As for the second, there's no way to control individually more than the default featureset without a significant amount of work. Sorry.

[perju]

Sorry if this has been discussed before... I was wondering if this ad management system has a randomly appearing full-page ad feature where users must click a "Click Here to Continue" link to reach their desired page?

[RedTyger]

It doesn't, that was something I was going to add into the latest version but never got around to. I'd like to add it at some point.

[Skipsoutdoors]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

That is not likely. It was intended for people using third party trackers like phpAdsNew, Google Adsense, Yahoo Ads etc. The other good reason not to is that currently aside from the optional Adsharing, this modification ads no queries to the running of the forum. Tracking would add database queries on every page by necessity, not something I want to do.






Are you using the latest version release a few hours ago? It should fix the first problem. As for the second, there's no way to control individually more than the default featureset without a significant amount of work. Sorry.

I'll try changing the versions tonight.

I may look through that install file and see if I could code in an extra sport or 2.

Skip

[perju]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

It doesn't, that was something I was going to add into the latest version but never got around to. I'd like to add it at some point.

Sounds great. I'm sure we'll have some tools to control these pages? I was envisioning something that allowed me to control the frequency of the full-page ads, and which members would be forced to view them.

Maybe something like this?

20% Unregistered Users
5% Registered Users
2% Moderators

[NathanMc]

I'm using header, footer, and left column right now...on my main page the column works perfect, but on any other page it strecthes out about 100 pixels throwing the layout off a bit. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this? Should I edit something in the left column template or header? thanks in advance.