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

[Nelson58]

Sorry! Here it is!!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129267...8/15971651736/





I tried all kinds of CSS as per this forum. Nothing worked. Also the LEFT GLOBAL HEADER 1 does not appear at all!!

[ozzy47]

Try adding this to your additional.css.

.ad_global_header {
    padding-top: 20px;
}

Adjust 20px as needed.

[Nelson58]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Try adding this to your additional.css.

.ad_global_header {
    padding-top: 20px;
}

Adjust 20px as needed.

That worked, thanks! The left header (Header 1) still isnt showing. Any idea what could be causing that? I have the code properly inserted into the style template.

[ozzy47]

I added that to your site via firebug and it dropped the banner down as it should. Make sure you clear your browsers cache, and cookies, as well as flush any server side caching you may have like vBOptimise.

[Evoklub]

Hi All,

Just upgraded from v2.3.1 to v2.4.2, and banners doesn't work any more.

Any hint, maybe anything to change in ad_global_header1 template, or...?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Evoklub

Hi All,

Just upgraded from v2.3.1 to v2.4.2, and banners doesn't work any more.

Any hint, maybe anything to change in ad_global_header1 template, or...?

Did you also update vbulletin? If yes, did you revert the templates?

Do the banners list in ACP?

[Evoklub]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Did you also update vbulletin? If yes, did you revert the templates?

Do the banners list in ACP?

No, No, and ACP: what should I do there?

In template ad_global_header1 is: <div id="ad_global_header1"><!--@vbbanners:0@--><vb:if condition="$adsshown[] = 4"></vb:if></div> Is it OK?

[Evoklub]

...and it is actually there (by viewing source), but it is invisible.

You can check it here: http://forum.evoklub.hu (header)

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Evoklub

No, No, and ACP: what should I do there?

In template ad_global_header1 is: <div id="ad_global_header1"><!--@vbbanners:0@--><vb:if condition="$adsshown[] = 4"></vb:if></div> Is it OK?

This should read:

<!--@vbbanners:0@-->

unless of course you want to make a different use of it. The div is only necessary if you have custom styles for that area.

Originally Posted by Evoklub

...and it is actually there (by viewing source), but it is invisible.

You can check it here: http://forum.evoklub.hu (header)

If you can see this in source code:

<!--@vbbanners:0@-->

Then the plugin is disabled. If you can see the banner code, then the banner has moved out of the page or visible area.

In my HTML inspector, I see the banner code and the banner code seems ok, but I can't tell what all the Google code means. I suggest to go to Google Adsense and get the code and replace it. Coincidentally they may have changed something or for some reason, that channel has no banners (I can't tell). Putting there some code which works elsewhere is a good way to find out.

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[Evoklub]

Dear Giovanni,

Thank you very much. It works with a normal jpg banner, so something is wrong with the Google code.