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We have 30+ forums, all dedicated to different topics. I wanted to be able to sell targeted banner ads for each of those categories. phpAdsNew is great for serving ads, but I needed to make some quick changes to VB in order to facilitate targeting.

Its easy to just plop in a generic call to phpAdsNew in the "header" template - works easy enough - however, you have no control and no ability to dynamically target those ads to a given forum. Now you can. (If there is another way, someone please tell me).

This is a simple hack, which involves a quick change to "global.php".

In global.php, find:

Code:
// figure out the chosen style settings
Below that, add:

Code:
// figure out the chosen style settings

// BSB - HACK - Need to populate foruminfo for targeted ads
if(isset($forumid)) {
    $getforuminfo=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT title FROM forum WHERE forumid='$forumid'");
    $forum_ad_keywords=$getforuminfo[title];

    // Replace generic words
    $forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" and ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
    $forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" the ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
    $forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" with ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
    $forum_ad_keywordss = str_replace(" or ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
    $forum_ad_keywords = str_replace("/", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);

    // Replace spaces with commas (for phpAdsNew OR keywords)
    $forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" ", ",", $forum_ad_keywords);
}
// END HACK
Let me give you an example. Let's say you have 2 forums:
  • Outdoor Hiking
  • Wild and Crazy Sex

Strange combination, I know - but bear with me. This hack will create a special variable called "$forum_ad_keywords", which will look like this (using the 2 examples above):
  • Outdoor,Hiking
  • Wild,Crazy,Sex

To use these in a template (i.e. header) to grab a target ad, you might try something like:

Code:
<a href="/ads/admin/adclick.php?n=$VBRandomX"><img src="/ads/admin/adview.php?n=$VBRandomX&what=$forum_ad_keywords" border="0"></a>
Note: the VBRandomX numbers are another hack. Just put this line in global.php to get some random #'s for the ad call:

Code:
$VBRandomX = time();
Easy enough. Not a real great randomizer, but it works for my needs. You want it to do more, have at it.

At any rate, the ad code above would expand to something like:

Code:
<a href="/ads/admin/adclick.php?n=993088616"><img src="/ads/admin/adview.php?n=993088616&what=Outdoor,Hiking" border="0"></a>
Now all you need to do is use those keywords when creating accounts within phpAdsNew.

Voila - instant targeted ads.

A robust, scalable targeted ad/sponsorship system should really be a part of the next release - IMHO.

Cheers.

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Old 05-23-2003, 08:20 AM
Dejan Dejan is offline
 
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try to not use "by" as keyword
or
try to add "by" in //Replace generic words


Code for your global.php is:


Quote:
// BSB - HACK - Need to populate foruminfo for targeted ads
if(isset($forumid)) {
$getforuminfo=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT title FROM forum WHERE forumid='$forumid'");
$forum_ad_keywords=strtolower($getforuminfo[title]);

// Replace generic words
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" and ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" the ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" with ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" or ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace("/", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" & ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" for ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" by", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);

// Replace spaces with commas (for phpAdsNew OR keywords)
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" ", ",", $forum_ad_keywords);
} else {
$forum_ad_keywords = 'home';
}



// Parent forum inside thread pages
if(isset($threadid)) {
$getforuminfo=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT forum.title FROM forum,thread WHERE threadid='$threadid' AND forum.forumid=thread.forumid");

$forum_ad_keywords=strtolower($getforuminfo[title]);

// Replace generic words
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" and ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" the ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" with ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" or ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace("/", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" & ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" for ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" i ", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" by", " ", $forum_ad_keywords);

// Replace spaces with commas (for phpAdsNew OR keywords)
$forum_ad_keywords = str_replace(" ", ",", $forum_ad_keywords);
}

// END HACK
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Old 07-10-2003, 05:35 AM
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Is anyone still using this. I can not get it working.
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Old 07-13-2003, 07:59 AM
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I have this hack working fine on 2.3.0
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Old 08-16-2003, 01:39 AM
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I now have this working fine on 3.0 beta 5 as well
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Old 09-02-2003, 01:43 PM
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I got this added to the phpinclude_start

Code:
require("C:/../../phpadsnew/phpadsnew.inc.php");
if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
$phpAds_raw = view_raw ('', 0, '', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
$variable_name = $phpAds_raw['html'];

But not sure where I need to put the local invocation code generated by phpadsnew. Do you know where I need to put them? I would greatly appreciated if you can point me to the right direction. Thanks.

Code:
<?php
if (@include('C:/../../phpadsnew/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
$phpAds_raw = view_raw ('', 2, '', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
}
?>
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Old 10-03-2003, 03:24 AM
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So far it is working great.

Is there any way to plug a banner on the main forum page? Forum Home I mean.

Thanks!

- Alex
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Old 10-20-2003, 06:15 PM
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I haven't been able to get the size parameters working properly...if I try to specify a size, the banner disappears altogether.

Here is the invocation code I'm testing (remote javascript method):

PHP Code:
<!--
   if (!
document.phpAds_useddocument.phpAds_used ',';
   
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random phpAds_random.substring(2,11);
   
   
document.write ("<" "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
   
document.write ("http://www.acuraworld.com/ads/adjs.php?n=" phpAds_random);
   
document.write ("&amp;what=$forum_ad_keywords@width:120");
   
document.write ("&amp;exclude=" document.phpAds_used);
   if (
document.referer)
      
document.write ("&amp;referer=" escape(document.referer));
   
document.write ("'><" "/script>");
//-->
</script><noscript><a href='http://www.acuraworld.com/ads/adclick.php?n=a1d9c3f2' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.acuraworld.com/ads/adview.php?what=home@width:120&amp;source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acuraworld.com&amp;n=a1d9c3f2' border='0' alt=''></a></noscript
According to the manual, I replaced the "," delimiters with a "/" and appended the "@" symbol to the end of the string to create a parameter for the entire expression - but it's not working at all. I've checked the output of the code to be sure it's picking up the keywords variable, and it is...

Any ideas?
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