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

[eglim]

Hi,
I am sorry for this silly question. I am using vBulletin 4.1.5 Patch Level 1 and installed this mod. But this is not working. I followed every step from video and also checked manual. But no luck. Banner is not showing. I check source of forum home page nothing I found with "vbbanners" text.

In admin panel everything seems fine as per video.

[eglim]

This is start working. Is this possible we can align it center.. this time it left aligned.

[eglim]

all fixed. Thank you for this great mod. exact what I looking for.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by 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.

Text banners don't track clicks ... that was said many times
However, you may track them, if you put your landing page from your text banner to the URL field and substitute the text banner landing page with http.../rbs_banners.php?id=N, where http... is your site and N is the numeric ID of the banner itself. That was said many times, too

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by eglim

Hi,
I am sorry for this silly question. I am using vBulletin 4.1.5 Patch Level 1 and installed this mod. But this is not working. I followed every step from video and also checked manual. But no luck. Banner is not showing. I check source of forum home page nothing I found with "vbbanners" text.

In admin panel everything seems fine as per video.

Originally Posted by eglim

This is start working. Is this possible we can align it center.. this time it left aligned.

Originally Posted by eglim

all fixed. Thank you for this great mod. exact what I looking for.

I appreciate, thank you

[metalguy639]

I need help this was working fine until I installed vBSEO on the site. I read the PDF and set the banners up according to how they should be with the html problem.

Site runs vBulletin 3.8.7. And vBSEO 3.6.0. The banners were installed some time ago and worked just fine until I installed vBSEO.

Things I have done so far:

1. Checked the banners to be sure that they can show within my browser.
2. I have changed the code to work with vBSEO.
3. Turned off the vBSEO html clean up.
4. I changed the settings in the vb admincp taking off the extra html.
5. Cleared the cache in my browser
6. Hard Refreshed the page.

The banners simply do not show in either skin I have a bought skin installed & the default skin. they do not show in either one.

[clauz]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Text banners don't track clicks ... that was said many times
However, you may track them, if you put your landing page from your text banner to the URL field and substitute the text banner landing page with http.../rbs_banners.php?id=N, where http... is your site and N is the numeric ID of the banner itself. That was said many times, too

Thank you very much, it is working now.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by metalguy639

I need help this was working fine until I installed vBSEO on the site. I read the PDF and set the banners up according to how they should be with the html problem.

Site runs vBulletin 3.8.7. And vBSEO 3.6.0. The banners were installed some time ago and worked just fine until I installed vBSEO.

Things I have done so far:

1. Checked the banners to be sure that they can show within my browser.
2. I have changed the code to work with vBSEO.
3. Turned off the vBSEO html clean up.
4. I changed the settings in the vb admincp taking off the extra html.
5. Cleared the cache in my browser
6. Hard Refreshed the page.

The banners simply do not show in either skin I have a bought skin installed & the default skin. they do not show in either one.

All I can say is, I never had one single case in which it wasn't possible to show banners.

There is an issue with vbSEO and you fixed it.
There is an issue with photopost, where it will not work at all (only there).

So I can only imagine you missed something. The most frequent errors are spelling, followed by an error of assignment rules.

If you can't fix it, I can try. Please post me an admin account via PM and once I have time I'll see into it. No hurry though, because my duty list is chilometric

[metalguy639]

Thanks for your answer but I figured it out and got them showing ok.

[Gripi]

is it possible to run this addon or call the banner script inside my complete php file? example "test.php" ? but the file is inside the directory of vbulletin forum core file too.