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Rotating Banner System
Version: 2.4.2, by y2ksw y2ksw is offline
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Category: Miscellaneous Hacks - Version: 4.x.x Rating:
Released: 08-15-2008 Last Update: 09-08-2013 Installs: 1237
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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: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.
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I've obviously missed this post. I read back to where I first asked the question and still didn't see the answer.

Where would I get the "ad code" from?
The code is given in the instructions. But don't start with it; instead, create a simple .jpg the size you want and make sure that shows up correctly where you want it. Then you can use the RBS code in place of it.
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Hello,

Question:
Is there a way to have a specific banner not display on a specific CMS/article page?


I am interested in displaying all our rotating banners everywhere on the site, yet there's one Article, where I would like not to display 1 specific banner, yet display the others.

Is there a way?

Thank you!
You may try a style condition based on the article ID and use 2 different locations, where one banner set has all and the other set all but one of the banners. Based off the article ID, you then show the one or the other location.
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Is there any way to weight an ad using this mod? For example if one wants an ad to be 5 times more likely to show up than another, how would one do this (other than the obvious and duplicate the ad 5 times )
Do the obvious
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I'm still looking for specific instructions on how to put ads in a sidebar block?
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Create a new HTML block and put the ad code in there as previously instructed
Sample code:
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<!--@vbbanners:0@--> 
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Do the obvious
I was hoping you wouldn't say that... just makes reporting on that ad a tad more difficult I guess. Perhaps something to consider for a future version?

Now if I can try work out why the ad wont show up in my "Below Navbar" position but it works in all my other custom positions...
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I was hoping you wouldn't say that... just makes reporting on that ad a tad more difficult I guess. Perhaps something to consider for a future version?

Now if I can try work out why the ad wont show up in my "Below Navbar" position but it works in all my other custom positions...
The weight calculations would add far too much overhead on loading, since it would need to query also the impression history each time, and also the start and end dates, and, and, and ... trust me, you would not like this plugin any more after you got proper weight handling

If we would work around this history, making it just "more probable" to show up, we would run in a new bunch of problems, such as showing weighted banners too often. The only weighting we have been playing with for a while, was the favouring of new banners until they have somewhat levelled compared to the old banners, but even this method was then abbandoned.

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Most banner problems are due to a wrong time frame, spelling errors and/or too restrictive additional rules
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The weight calculations would add far too much overhead on loading, since it would need to query also the impression history each time, and also the start and end dates, and, and, and ... trust me, you would not like this plugin any more after you got proper weight handling

If we would work around this history, making it just "more probable" to show up, we would run in a new bunch of problems, such as showing weighted banners too often. The only weighting we have been playing with for a while, was the favouring of new banners until they have somewhat levelled compared to the old banners, but even this method was then abbandoned.
Not sure if it needs to be too complex, just basing the ad placement on probabilities. If one's site carries enough traffic and it has a decent "randomiser" the probabilities should work out in the end.

I use Advertisment Management on my phpBB site (which is being migrated to vBulletin, hence the "need") and it works pretty well.

PS, the missing banner seemed to be a problem with the vbulletin ad side - just deleted the ad and created a new one.
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Not sure if it needs to be too complex, just basing the ad placement on probabilities. If one's site carries enough traffic and it has a decent "randomiser" the probabilities should work out in the end.

I use Advertisment Management on my phpBB site (which is being migrated to vBulletin, hence the "need") and it works pretty well.

PS, the missing banner seemed to be a problem with the vbulletin ad side - just deleted the ad and created a new one.
I understand perfectly well, but I would not like to make this product work like a full driven advertising management. For that, much more work has to be done, it's just not only banners weight, but also reports, graphics, payment, channels, customers, providers, resellers, Google integration + 100 other small and big features
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<font size="3">What do you guys use to create the banner ads for your sites?

I want to use this modification to rotate banners that I create for users that write excellent articles for my site. A banner such as "Project of the Month Winner John Smith" is what I want to create.

How do you guys create these types of banners?

Thanks!!

Nelson</font>
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What do you guys use to create the banner ads for your sites?

I want to use this modification to rotate banners that I create for users that write excellent articles for my site. A banner such as "Project of the Month Winner John Smith" is what I want to create.

How do you guys create these types of banners?

Thanks!!


Nelson
I've been using Laughingbird's logo creator for years now and work great for those quick little banners and logos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYaLuPFa-I
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