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

[Internetcafe]

Doesn't seem to work on 4.0.8 :-

Please upload the files that came with the product before installing or upgrading!
Missing files:

All files have been uploaded !?

[CybaGirl]

Originally Posted by giorgioarmani

So its installed.. Where do I place "@vbbanners@" so it shows top right?

If anyone else is wondering how to do this and if what you are trying to achieve is shown in this image.



This is what I did to make it look like this.

1. Log in to your admin panel.

2. Click on styles and templates.

3. Click on style manager.

4. Select the template you wish to modify and from the drop down box on the right select Edit Templates.

5. Double click on Ad Location Templates so that this menu expands.

6. Scroll down till you see ad_header_end and double click on it.

7. In the empty big box enter in the following.

<br><br><br>
<div align="center"><table>
<tr>
    <td><!--@vbbanners:0@--></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

Of course changing <!--@vbbanners:0@--> to what ever banner number you want to display in this area.

For example if you want to display Position 2 banners in this area change the 0 to a 2 so that it looks like this.

<!--@vbbanners:2@-->

Oh yes and if you are not using a large forum logo like we are. You may have to switch where it says <div align="center"> in the code above to say <div align="right"> .


Anyway hope this helps others who would like to place their banners in this area.

[Parture]

How do we get the images to rotate each time the page is refreshed? I have added 3 images but only one ever shows up.

Oh, problem solved, for some reson the starting dates of the other banners were later in the day.

[andreamarucci]

Originally Posted by CybaGirl

5. Double click on Ad Location Templates so that this menu expands.

6. Scroll down till you see ad_header_end and double click on it.

There's no ad_header_end. I've 4.0.8pl2 and these are the templates

Attachment 124078

[CybaGirl]

Hi Andreamarucci,

I have just tested the code in the ad_global_header1 and it seems to work exactly the same as if it was placed in the ad_header_end

I haven't upgraded our forum to version 4.0.8 pl2 yet. So I guess this is where I will need to place this code when I do .

[andreamarucci]

Tried and it works in the header1 or header2 position...

[andreamarucci]

Another question. Is it possible to rotate the banner based on time? I've seen that the banner change when you change page. It's not possible to make it change every x seconds?

[CybaGirl]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

Another question. Is it possible to rotate the banner based on time? I've seen that the banner change when you change page. It's not possible to make it change every x seconds?

I read it was possible in one of the replies in one of the previous pages. But I cannot remember which page I read it on now.

It has something to do with using the meta refresh tag.

Probably your best bet is to start from page 1 and read all the pages. As I am sure I read about this on one of the previous pages. Plus if my memory serves me right someone is kind enough to provide a working example on how you can achieve this.

[nando.dominios]

Please, replace output url "&" with "&amp;" in the next relase for a valid urls. Good work, thanks.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/valida...blems.html#amp

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

Another question. Is it possible to rotate the banner based on time? I've seen that the banner change when you change page. It's not possible to make it change every x seconds?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=989