Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[netcommander]

I've tried
yes its closed adsense but cannot delete "Remove Advertisements" link

[neverstop]

Originally Posted by netcommander

I've tried
yes its closed adsense but cannot delete "Remove Advertisements" link

I'm not sure what you are saying? There are options to disable by usergroup in the "Global Settings".

If you want to remove the "Remove Advertisements" link for logged in users you have to edit whichever ad template you want to remove it from. For example: You want to remove the link from your header adblock follow these steps:

Go to:
AdminCP->Style manager->"Your Style"-Edit Templates->Advertisement Templates->advertisement_header.

Find:

<phrase 1="$vboptions[bburl]">$vbphrase[adintegrate_remove_ads]</phrase>

Replace with:

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1,3,4))">
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bburl]">$vbphrase[adintegrate_remove_ads]</phrase>
</if>

Cheers,
Ian

[netcommander]

Edit.
yes I see remove the "Remove Advertisements" links for logged users
and I've found my problem your code work nice
thanks neverstop

[RedGTiVR6]

I'm a bit new to advertising on the forums and don't quite understand some of the terms and purposes for some features.

Can someone please tell me what purpose Ad Sharing serves? I'm trying to determine if it's something we want to consider. I understand it as a way to allow users to advertise, but how exactly?

Reading the manual it all fine and dandy, but I'm not understanding how it's actually implemented. Can someone actually SHOW me an example of this?

[R-n-R]

OK, loaded 4.0.1 and everything seems to be running fine, EXCEPT the AJAX.

Regardless of where you run a add if AJAX is turned on after the last ad I get the following Parse Error (I removed my domain and replaced it with domainname.com)

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /chroot/home/livingli/domainname.com/html/forum/ajax.php(44) : eval()'d code on line 1

I am not sure if this is a setting I have wrong, aka operator error, or if its a actual bug.

[ang2el]

I installed it and used google ad it shows ad in the footer but not in the post bit can anyone tell me how it does work... i have 3.6.8

Thanks in advance.

[ntloc]

Originally Posted by ang2el

I installed it and used google ad it shows ad in the footer but not in the post bit can anyone tell me how it does work... i have 3.6.8

Thanks in advance.

There's the manual on top of the page, just above the hack files link.

[Tehz]

My ad's aren't appearing for the juice theme ?

What's wrong?

[jgommel]

When I input a beginning and expiration date into the Left & Right columns, Forumbit and Threadbit advertisement timespan box, the time doesn't save. If I input the same beginning and expiration date into the Header, Navbar, Footer, Postbit, Header Archive or Footer Archive advertisement timespan it saves it just fine.

The date/time I input was: 2007-12-03 22:14:00 | 2007-12-14 01:59:00

BTW, for those that don't already know, the advertisement timespan uses the servers time, not the users machine time. You'll need to find out the timezone of your server and adjust the time you enter into the advertisement timespan box accordingly. Example: If your server is located in the Mountain Timezone and you live in the Eastern Timezone. Make sure you input the time you want the ad to expire -2 hours. So if you want the ad to expire at 20:00:00, then you would enter 18:00:00. This way, the ad will end at 8:00pm EST (6:00pm MNT)

[wildo69]

ok, i dont know if i missed something stupid, but i uninstalled 3.14 and installed the newest version 4.01.
The install looks to be ok, except when i go into setup my ads, i enable headers ads, paste in my code, click save.. and bam.. it reverts to no code and headers disabled.
its like it wont retain my settings..

thoughts?