Miscellaneous Hacks - Rotating Banner System

With the Rotating Banner System software, you may publish literally anywhere standard banners and advertising, with no restriction but your imagination. Unlike many other products, it allows to show an unlimited amount of banners and advertising, which are randomly shown at the places you choose, and you may refer generically to an Ad by using specific placeholders.

Also the management is straight-forward and simple to use. Forum administrators with maintenance rights may add, edit and delete records from the Administration Control Panel (ACP), one of each representing a banner. After saving the new banner settings, they are immediately visible at your board.

Compatibility: from vBulletin 3.6.5 onwards

By the way, I do also install the hack on your boards, but since I am very, very busy, it may take some time (weeks) until it gets done.


Tutorials:

• How-to create my first banner (Flash).

Updates:

• 2.0.1: Simple click tracker added, HTML help included.
• 2.0.3: Small bug fixes; additional banner list, navigation bar, E-Mail field for banner event notifications and automatic save on scroll setting; absolute URL to rbs_banner.php in order to allow click tracking on non-standard pages; supported languages: English, Italian; Help file clean-up.
• 2.0.5: Small bug fixes; additional details in banner list; email notification for epired banners.
• 2.0.6: vbCMS compatibility bug fix; additional banner lists.
• 2.0.7: Usergroups filter: now it is possible to define a list of usergroups which may show a banner; additional vbCMS compatibility bug fix.
• 2.0.8: Various fixes and most of all, inclusion of the right files: admin_rbs.php, cpnav_rbs.xml
• 2.0.9: Extra comma fix in new record creation.
• 2.1.0: Fix for an occasional banner type selection bug, when the sample banners have been deleted or disabled.
• 2.2.0 (Major upgrade): Up to 10 different banner locations. Requires changes to your existing placeholders in your templates, since a more generic format has been chosen. If you don't need more than 2 different locations, you don't need to upgrade. Changed files: rbs_banner.php, admin_rbs.php
• 2.2.1: Minor bug fix in files: admin_rbs_h_banner_list.php, admin_rbs_v_banner_list.php
• 2.2.1: Hotfix for Max Clicks saving bug.
• 2.2.2: More listings and less files. PDF Help. Separate Italian add-ons and help. Duplicate button.
• 2.2.3: Minor bug fixes. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.2.4: Flash Banner support (beta). Changed files: product-rbs.xml, rbs_wrapper.swf, admin_rbs.php, English Help.
• 2.2.5: Hotfix for vBulletin 4.0.2 compatibility bug.
• 2.2.6: Checking for installed Flash Wrapper rbs_wrapper.swf; A few English FAQ; Help files. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.3.0 (Major upgrade): New modules: Delete Expired Banners, Disable Expired Banners; Detail Banner Statistics with unique access key for your customers; Updated help; Changed files: all.
• 2.3.1: Hotfix for missing field in rbs_hist table. Changed files: none, just update product.
• 2.3.2: Added: Unsupported option for setting any number of available positions between 1 and big bang. Fixed: Small bug and speed issues. Removed: Italian translation. Italians may now request support at www.vbulletin.it. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.3: Fix: Copy selected forum ID's during banner duplication. Changed: start and end hours for new banners are set to 0:00 and 23:59 respectively. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.4: Option: Send Mail Before. This option allows to schedule expiring banners differently. New variables for emails: $rbs_enddate: This variable holds the formatted banner ending date and time based on the standard formats for date and time in vBulletin settings; $rbs_name: This variable holds the banner name. EMail Notifications option description: Added direct links to the email phrases for quick changes. Changed files: rbs_mail_cron.php.
• 2.4.0 (Major upgrade): Removed: Option to enable or disable mailing. Banners with email addresses to notify are handled. Setting to reset mailing in single banners. Now, if mailing should be repeated, you will have to edit the banner from phpMyAdmin. Added: Order links in lists. The initial state is ordered by ID, as before. By clicking the titles, the other voices can be ordered. Clicking twice inverts the order. This works in all lists. Options to prevent counting and reducing thus a tiny bit of load. A new bunch of demo banners for new installations. Demo banners are locked into database in order to avoid 30% of the questions because of the 'experts' deleting them before trying the product. They can be disabled and modified though. The true experts can delete them after all testing from the database by using phpMyAdmin without side effects. Changes: Phrase for emailing about expiring banners, now also with direct links to the phrases. Demo banners. Our old publisher ID is replaced with the new ones, and old demo banners are updated with the new ones, if found. The functions have been exported to includes/functions_rbs.php. This makes the product code smaller and easier to maintain, and runs faster on sites where caching/acceleration is enabled. Changed Files: all *.php
• 2.4.1: Option Likelihood. This new option adds a weight to banners and allows thus to show one banner more often than another. The default weight is 100%. We also make sure that the final date of the default banners falls into a valid range. Changed files: includes/functions_rbs.php and rbs_stats.php.
• 2.4.2: Workaround for update sequence problems.

Hacks and unsupported add-ons:

• Banner Rotator Widget To CMS
• Rotate banners in-place
• Italian Translation

[Stakerscorner]

try to put this mod on really dont know what im doing can someone help me please

[demo7up]

What do u exactly need help with ? I can probably attempt to assist you?

[valdet]

Hello y2k,

I am trying to show the banners on top of my forums, in header template, but it isn't showing anything. It is working very well in other templates, such as navbar, showthread, forumdisplay etc...

However it isn't working on header.

I made a partial workaround by placing a static

<a href="http://www.mysite.net/forum/rbs_banner.php?id=34&userid=2"><img src="http://www.mysite.net/forum/banner-image.jpg"></a>

but unfortunately, this workaround only counts clicks and not the impressions. I desperately need the impressions to be counted too.

I disabled vBSEO HTML cleansing tool, disabled rbs_banner.php rewrite etc... but it's not working there in header template.

Y2k, do you have any solution how to make it work on header template or how to make the alternative solution work on my case. I am on vB 3.6. I know

I'm even willing to pay if you can make a quick fix.

Looking forward to reply.
Thanks

[x YNWA x]

Hiya

So I have looked at the location options and some of them include adverts within posts, which I personally do not want or need.

How do I edit it so that I move the advert to after say the first post and then every 15 posts?

I had this on a previous style on the forum but that was for a single advert. I basically want to do the same but with the rotating system instead.

Thanks

[x YNWA x]

I'm struggling with this plugin.

I have just created a test banner and put it in location 3.

I then put <!--@vbbanners:3@--> when editing the style ad_thread_first_post_content but nothing appears.

Is there more to this? I was able to get position 0 to appear by putting <!--@vbbanners:0@--> in the below nav bar template and they appear fine. Am I missing something?

Is there a way I can put adverts in locations manually rather than using the placeholders?

I basically want these locations:

1 set of adverts to appear under the nav

1 set of adverts to appear after the forum list on forum home

1 set of adverts to appear after the thread list

1 set of adverts which would appear after the first post and after x number of posts.

I want this so I can have different adverts for different area's of the site. For example on our betting area we would only use betting banners.

Also I would like to know if I can make a donation to the developer with anything other than paypal? This is a very good plugin and I want to donate some money towards its development.

Thanks

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by valdet

Hello y2k,

I am trying to show the banners on top of my forums, in header template, but it isn't showing anything. It is working very well in other templates, such as navbar, showthread, forumdisplay etc...

However it isn't working on header.

I made a partial workaround by placing a static

<a href="http://www.mysite.net/forum/rbs_banner.php?id=34&userid=2"><img src="http://www.mysite.net/forum/banner-image.jpg"></a>

but unfortunately, this workaround only counts clicks and not the impressions. I desperately need the impressions to be counted too.

I disabled vBSEO HTML cleansing tool, disabled rbs_banner.php rewrite etc... but it's not working there in header template.

Y2k, do you have any solution how to make it work on header template or how to make the alternative solution work on my case. I am on vB 3.6. I know

I'm even willing to pay if you can make a quick fix.

Looking forward to reply.
Thanks

I fear this can't be fixed. The header template is rendered in a different moment and rendering the banners there would invalidate all the rest.

Why do you need to put banners in the header template? Are you trying to rotate the logo?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by x YNWA x

Hiya

So I have looked at the location options and some of them include adverts within posts, which I personally do not want or need.

How do I edit it so that I move the advert to after say the first post and then every 15 posts?

I had this on a previous style on the forum but that was for a single advert. I basically want to do the same but with the rotating system instead.

Thanks

You could replace for example the prevuois banner code with a RBS placeholder. Then, a rotating banner will appear as long as the conditions and availability are met.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by x YNWA x

I'm struggling with this plugin.

I have just created a test banner and put it in location 3.

I then put <!--@vbbanners:3@--> when editing the style ad_thread_first_post_content but nothing appears.

Is there more to this? I was able to get position 0 to appear by putting <!--@vbbanners:0@--> in the below nav bar template and they appear fine. Am I missing something?

Is there a way I can put adverts in locations manually rather than using the placeholders?

I basically want these locations:

1 set of adverts to appear under the nav

1 set of adverts to appear after the forum list on forum home

1 set of adverts to appear after the thread list

1 set of adverts which would appear after the first post and after x number of posts.

I want this so I can have different adverts for different area's of the site. For example on our betting area we would only use betting banners.

Also I would like to know if I can make a donation to the developer with anything other than paypal? This is a very good plugin and I want to donate some money towards its development.

Thanks

Did you try the location 3 banner? If location 0 shows up, there should be no problem to show location, to. Please try to duplicate a working location 0 banner and the change it to location 3 (and save). If that works, change it a little more, such as using s different image.

If it doesn't work, the most frequent errors are: spelling, missing images, incorrect HTML (in Text), wrong time frame, wrong section.

If you would just keep sometimes the default banners switched on, a few pennies arrive by your visitors clicking on them ... mainly, this is how this product is maintained

[y2ksw]

PS: If not using placeholders, the banners don't rotate. And that doesn't make much sense

[clauz]

Hello,
Thanks for the great mod.
My problem is that after installing thsi mod, "clicks" remain at 0, even if I enabled "Click Tracking".
As you can see in the image attached I have
Impressions 1.515
Clicks 0

I have clicked many times on the image banner from different IPs and with different users logged in (or without logged user).
Bellow there are my settings:
(you also can see the live demo: www.tenisdemasa.ro and statistics: http://www.tenisdemasa.ro/forum/rbs_...87ae82544f6b05 )
Thanks for help.