>>--ARROW ADS---> Hack

Arrow ads is based on and uses some original coding from
VB Banner Control 1.2 created by KarateKid. Thanks mate!

Why Arrow ads? This is the first VB hack that gives you total
control of advertising and sponsorship banners
How long does it take you to add a new banner using your conventional
banner software? It will only take you 30 seconds with Arrow Ads.
Arrow ads also supports mulitpule campaigns.

1) Forum targeting
This gives you the ability to target a nominated forum, arrow ads will automaticly place the
required banner at the top of the sponsored thread list and at the top of every thread within that thread.
It will also add a "Sponsored by xxx" in the forum display list under the title of each sponsored forum.
You can also add these banners to the bannerbank.

2) File tergeting
With this feature you can add sponsorship banners to the top of nominated files eg. usercp.php etc.
the required banner will be displayed at the top of each page of that area.
You can also add these banners to the bannerbank.

If a forum or file is not sponsored a random banner will be displayed from the bannerbank.

3) Bannerbank
If you have an advertiser that just wabts their banner on your site but not sponsoring a page or file,
just select "add to bannerbank" and the ad will be displayed at random if an area of the site is not sopnsored.

ADMIN FEATURES
1) Add
2) Modify
3) Search
4) Stats

In the admin you can view
guestclicks ( how many not logged in guests clicked on the banner )
userclicks ( which user has clicked how often on which banner )
views ( how often is the banner viewed )
date that the banner was added
date that the stats were reset
to save deleting, you can activate or deactivate a banner at amy time.

MEMBER FEATURES
View guestclicks, userclicks and total impressions. Also displays the status of each banner
including:

This Banner is campaign No. 3 and,
was added ~ Today.
was last reset ~ Today.
is Active.
is included in the bannerbank.
is displayed in the US Crowd control forum / directory. (with link to the forum)
or
is displayed in the Members List area (with link to the file)

Members can also reset their banner stats at any time as required.

DEMO: atmyparty.com

SCREENSHOT: Next posts

REQUIREMENTS:

4 X php file alteration
1 X database query
7 X new templates
4 X template modifications

INSTALATION TIME: aprox. 20 - 30 min

Tested on 2.3.0 but should work on all versions.

Don't forget to click on INSTALL
UPDATE - BIG FIX - 24/04/03
Bug fixed - this now stops guests from entering the ad stats area.
Please download the zip again and replace the userreport.php file
UPDATE - changes- 26/05/03
Basicly we are changing the "date added" to "date expired"
to upgrade will take you 5 mins. This is being done to make it easies to see when your ads expire and will be required for the new Arrow ads / VB Trader intergration hack to allow banners to be auto active upon payment via paypal .

~ This hack is Copyright ~
Please note that I reserve the right to code and release this hack for VB3, I have not and will not grant permission for anyone else to code this hack for VB3.

[trafix]

Firstly, im sorry for not giving replies here for a while as i have been so flat out on VB TRADER.

@ Guidster

Did you manage to fix your problem??

Secondly, I want to thank everyone for their responses and great raves

The future of Arrow Ads.....

I am planning some big things for arrow ads..

1) Change the banner url to image upload instead of direct link.

2) Make the banner modifyable by the advertiser. They will be able to activate / de-activate the banner of change the banner image if required.

3) The intergration of VB Trader. I will build an addon so members can pay by Paypal for their advertising costs and then once they have paid, they will then be able to upload their banner to the arrow ads system so once they have finished the banner will be automaticly added to the banner bank

Less work and more money for you

If they want to sponsor a foum or php file you will still have to do that manualy.

Trafix

[Guidster]

I was not really reporting a problem, I am just trying to integrate Arrow Ads into the Archive Hack by Xenon and Skuzzy as I get at least 1000 visitors to my archive per day. These are views and potential clicks that I would like to capitalize on.

This hack uses a couple of php files to feed search engine spiders .html instead of dynamic content. As a result, many people come to the archive. Just trying to leverage some more exposure for my advertisers.

Thanks,

[trafix]

Ok I will look into that intergration with the next version of arrow ads

With the intergration of VB Trader and arrow ads simply means that I have to do some updating of the arrow ads code.

Arrow Ads will still be free

The intergration coding to allow your members to buy, upload and activate their own banners will all be added to VB Trader.

[DannyITR]

I have a problem. I don't want any forum specific banners. I added them all to the banenr bank it doesn't rotate evenly at all. Can you help me? I have another VB where it does work fine so I know I installed it correctly. Could another hack be affecting it? I made sure to completely remove VB_Advert Management.

The whole reason I installed this hack was because the VB_Advert management stopped rotating the ads. I'm so frustrated right now.

My board is http://forums.montrealracing.com

Thanks

[DannyITR]

Here is a sample of stats for about 2 hours:

[trafix]

hmmm,

Ok so you have 1 version working properly and another that is not .....

I dont think it would be affected by other hacks.

The only thing I could put it down to is maybe the version of php that the server is running.

The system on my site works fine, however others have reported similar problems as you have. The version of php running ion the server could affect the random adility but im not totly sure.

[PurpleCow]

trafix : Can you give the hack capability to serve HTML ads also ?? like the ones we see on site point forums.

[trafix]

UPDATE - changes- 26/05/03
Basicly we are changing the "date added" to "date expired"
to upgrade will take you 5 mins. This is being done to make it easies to see when your ads expire and will be required for the new Arrow ads / VB Trader intergration hack to allow banners to be auto active upon payment via paypal .

[kcradio]

The last thing you need to do is add this code to link to your stats page,

<a href="userreport.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Add Stats</a>

---- What is this and where does it go?

[trafix]

ok this is a link to where banner owners can view their banner stats.

you can put this whereever you like, maybe in the use cp or the footer. Maybe you have a list of members links.