Add-On Releases - Advertisement System V2.6 Aka Ad Management

Many forums are using the Ad management system, however the coder has stopped supporting the script. Therefore I have decided to release this modification. I will give support to those who need it and continue to make updates to the system.

====>> Live Demo
The Advertisement System was designed with the intent that anyone with any level of experience could use the system. It is easy to install and once installed, the templates are easy to use on a site. The advertisement system has several features that sites will enjoy such as it can be used on versions 3.6.x as well as 3.7.x. The ads can be placed in the following areas: header , footer , below whats going on, below the navbar , postbit , postbit legacy, pms, announcement, archive, left & right column in forum home , left column in member info and full page , threadbit , as well as forumbit. Also, the ability to not display advertisement on certain pages such as login, registration & the search page. This system allows you to personalize the system to better suit their needs such as setting permissions like ads after first post on a page, ads after last post on a page, ads after X post on a page, and ads every X posts on a thread. You may also display ads by forum ID, as well as customize the full page for your site. The system comes with a feature for auto refresh ads as well as Google analytics. Besides the features,there is constant support given to those who need it and of course, updates are made to the system in order to better serve the sites using the system.

10/15/2008 version 2.6

** ability to tun on /off the autorefresh : check the screen below

Yes : will enable the autorefresh
No : will enable a simple rotation
** fixed 2 bugs in [left & right column ]
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Features :
* works for v3.7.x and also v3.6.x
*advertisement in header , footer , below whats going on ? , below the navbar , postbit , postbit_legacy , pms , announcement , archive , left & right column in forumhome , left column in memberinfo and full page , threadbit , forumbit
* flash rotation
* do not display advertisement on certain pages Such as login , register & search
* google analytics
* permissions by area : display advertisement or not for usergroup x in :
... area 1 : header , footer
... area 2 : navbar , left & right column
... area 3 : forumbit & threadbit
... area 4 : postbit,postbit legacy , pms & announcement
* for postbit & postbit_legacy you have the ability to set more permissions like :
.... ad after first post on a page
.... ad after last post on a page
.... ad after X post on a page
.... ad every X posts on a thread
.... Minimum thread postcount
.... Maximum user postcount
..... Display Advertisements as User
*** Full Page
****Auto refresh ads

Please remember to click Mark as Installed if you use this modification.
Support questions from members who have not marked this as installed will be considered low priority.

[karim004]

Originally Posted by D.Baker

Hello Karim004,
Thanks for the update, its a big step forward. However, using a comma as a code separator will conflict with any type of flash banner a user would like to embed, as flash embed codes generally have commas in them.

For example, this is the code I have setup in Who Sees Ads, I thought it might help to show you what an end user like me is trying to do:

<div id="leaderboardad">
<a href="http://mydomian.com/twoweeksin/" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview ('/webads/leaderboard_twoweeksin');" target="_self"><img src="http://mydomian.com/blog/wp-content/ads/twoweeksin_ad1.jpg" alt="Two Weeks In... " name="leaderboard1" width="728" height="90" /></a>
</div>
*** CODE ***
<div id="leaderboardad"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
           var so = new SWFObject("http://mydomian.com/blog/wp-content/ads/forum/DESTROYER2noLoopb.swf", "ForumDestroyer", "728", "90", "9", "");
		   so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
           so.write("leaderboardad");
</script>
*** CODE ***
<div id="leaderboardad"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
           var so = new SWFObject("http://mydomian.com/blog/wp-content/ads/burton/ESTbanner.swf", "BurtonEST", "728", "90", "9", "");
		   so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
           so.write("leaderboardad");
</script>

As you can see, the first banner in the set is a plain JPEG with some Google Analytics tracking code, the second and third banners are Flash banners embedded using the swfobject.js embed method. As you can see from my code, using a comma will not separate the banners correctly. May I suggest you use a unique code separator instead of a comma (ideally this could be changed by the user) such as ***CODE*** or ***ROTATE***, that way a user could use your plugin to embed anything, even non ads!

And, doing it this way would mean the user could specify his own DIVs and CSS, thus removing the need to edit templates to center ads, or anything like that. As the users is placing their own DIVS, it would also allow ads to be embedded that are different sizes, so you wouldn't need the global size setting anymore. How awesome would that be!?

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

thank you D.Baker
let me see check if i can let users select a separator from the admincp

[redlabour]

Ehmmm...

before anyone Upgrades some Warnings to the Developer:

1. Where is the Feature Full-Page-Ad' after X Posts' gone?

2. And you write : "05/18/2008 Version 2.1" in the FirstPost - but it is only 2.0 ?

3. Archive-Ads still completely missing in AdminCP and in Forum.

4. You did mistakes in the AdminCP Descriptions:

Enable footer advertisements your forum?

footer end advertisement code

Enable footer start advertisements your forum?

footer end advertisement code

5. BTW - you forget Ads after X-Post in Postbit in your Description of Product here in the first Post but it still works.

6. My Random Code is deleted after Upgrading??

7. You entered absolutely useless Usergroups as Default in AdminCP Options.

[karim004]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Ehmmm...

before i install/update:

1. Where is the Feature Full-Page-Ad' after X Posts' gone?

2. And you write : "05/18/2008 Version 2.1" in the FirstPost - but it is only 2.0 ?

3. Archive-Ads still completely missing in AdminCP and in Forum.

4. You did mistakes in the AdminCP Descriptions:



5. BTW - you forget Ads after X-Post in Postbit in your Description of Product here in the first Post but it still works.

???????????

redlabour i told you yesterday i am still testing the x post in full page !
for the version it s just a mistake typo ((thx )) !
for archive (( works with header & footer )) next version i am gotta add a option to turn it on or off !

and dont forgot it s just a free script i cant get millions features in 4 days come on !

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by karim004

for the version it s just a mistake typo ((thx )) !

There are a lot of Typo-Errors in the first Post.

installation :

you know in vb3.7 we already have a templates group for advertisement we gotta use them in this mod and make things easy for you because you dont have to edit any template just import the product go to admincp , vBulletin Options , Advertisement System and click yes to Enable advertisements on your forum?

and so on ......

Originally Posted by karim004

for archive (( works with header & footer )) next version i am gotta add a option to turn it on or off !

Ehmmm... nobody wants the same Ads in Archive as in the Forum.

GoogleAdSense and Amazon have different Codes for only Text. We need a complete own Ads in Archivefunction.


Ok - and what about the Points :

5 + 6 + 7

And sorry for my Post above - but you have told us yesterday that the lost Features will be in this next Update - sorry but this is irritating.

So in my Eyes it is 1.3 and not 2.0.

BTW - you can hit the Button for "Beta-Testing" in your First Post.

[redlabour]

Another Couples of Bugs:

Footer Start Ads are not centered. Footer End Ads are!
And before you forget it - in AdminCp you named both "Footer End".

Ads in Postbit are broken - not longer centered and at the End after Banner there is a readable Code :

var ry=Math.floor(Math.random()*myimages.length) if (ry==0) ry=1 document.write('') // specifies link in new window } random_imglink() //-->

Clickend uninstall now and cleared MOTM Nomination. Sorry - but this Hack is Crap at this Time and not Version 2.0 - maybe Version 1.0 RC2. And i am very sorry to say that i think you are not knowing what you are doing.

I go back to vBAdManagement 4 since there is a working Ad-Product for 3.7 from anyone because the Core Functions are well working with 3.7!

[karim004]

Originally Posted by redlabour

There are a lot of Typo-Errors in the first Post.





and so on ......



Ehmmm... nobody wants the same Ads in Archive as in the Forum.

GoogleAdSense and Amazon have different Codes for only Text. We need a complete own Ads in Archivefunction.


Ok - and what about the Points :

5 + 6 + 7

And sorry for my Post above - but you have told us yesterday that the lost Features will be in this next Update - sorry but this is irritating.

So in my Eyes it is 1.3 and not 2.0.

BTW - you can hit the Button for "Beta-Testing" in your First Post.

for ads in archive i said i gotta add the option in next update

for group 5 , 6, 7 come on man it s just a default usergroup to show the newbies how the option work you can enter your usergroup id you want enable or disable the ads for them so what s wrong with that ?

for the version i updated the mod in my forum test till i get v2 and relase it if you have prb with this i can change it for you !

a question :
did you find any prb (( not typo )) i am saying prb in this mod ?

anyway i am fixing the typo errors (thanks )) and it s not a big deal if you center the code in your footer

[Chance4Today]

I put the code in as described by you and still nothing shows up am I missing something? I really would like to get a rotating banner on my sites

thanks

[exetel]

karim004,

I've notice with the slideshow that there is a white box, i know this might be a dumb question however is there away to make the white box the same colour of the rest of the forum background?

Awesome script by the way

Regards

Cheyne

[D.Baker]

Hey Karim004,
Your doing good work, don't stress. If people want special requests, then I'm sure somebody over here could help, otherwise take your time and thanks again for the help. Don't forget, this is the best ad manager for 3.7 at the moment, so you're holding all the cards. Not to mention, that by the very nature of this plugin it helps people earn money, so it annoys me to see people getting on your case about it when your doing this for free.

Anyway, back to the plugin. Like I said above, if you just removed all alignment code, and let the users do this through DIVs and CSS, then it saves you the work of coding this. I removed the center code from your "header end" templates, but I think in the future you should just leave it up to the end user.

For an example (just so you know how I am using this & it might helps n00bs) I added this CSS to my style:

#headerad {
	height: 90px;
	width: 728px;
	margin: 25px 30px 0 0;
}

And my ad code is like this (as I can't ad the flash ones in yet due to commas):

<div id="headerad">
<a href="http://mydomain.com/twoweeksin/" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview ('/webads/leaderboard_twoweeksin');" target="_self"><img src="http://mydomain.com/blog/wp-content/ads/twoweeksin_ad1.jpg" alt="Two Weeks In... " name="leaderboard1" width="728" height="90" /></a>
</div>

Another idea for the future, to be able to have different ads display depending on which Forum/Child forum you're in. This would let users have more targeted ads, which is just good strategy.

Keep it up,
D.Baker

[LukaB]

Chaps,

I appear to have it all working except, and I'm a little confused about this, but shouldn't I be able to have say, one ad (486x60) in the postbit part and have it rotate into other ads. Basically I'm trying to figure out how one would rotate several ads. No matter what I've tried the ads don't appear to rotae. Could anyone post a bit of code here showing how to rotate for the postbit part of it.

Much obliged