Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

HowdA All.

From the makers of Hydrogen comes the latest mack - GAB (Geek Advertising Banners).

This has come about by needing an advertising system that no other hack seemed to totally fulfill. Personally - I really didnt want to burden myself with supporting another hack - but I felt it was significantly better than other hack systems out there so I thought many would be able to benefit from it.

Whats so freaking cool about it?

1- use flash, normal, text based (google adsense) or rotating banners
2- Decide which scripts run the banners
3- Define which forums run the banners
4- define which usergroups can turn off the banners
5- Make ads stop at x amount of hits
6- Make ads stop at x amount of views
7- Make ads start/stop at certain times
8- track views and/or hits
9- Wipes your bum

Why am I releasing this now? It seems to be hip and trendy to release Banner hacks. In all reality - this has been a very long work in progress that is finally rounding the finsihing stages. The current RC pacakge is considered complete except for the show stats segment (its recording stats, but you cant browse them easily yet).

LIke with any hack (especially a Beta) back up you DB and files needing change (global.php,admincp/index.php).

Known issues:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

For users of GAB Beta 2, uninstall it and then install this version. In all reality, you could just revert the file changes and delete the GAB_ tables from yur DB (heck, you dont even need to do that).

To upgrade from RC1.5 to RC1.6, just replace existing files with the latest from the downloaded package and run the template portion of the installer (you can skip the rest of the install steps). You may have to revert your GUSH_main and GUSH_ad_row

Donations

I have never asked for donations for any of the macks I have done - however since I have spent well over 60 hours coding this - I thought I would stick my neck out there. If you like my mack, it brings you some money and you want to keep my fridge stocked with beer and Cheetos, then feel free to drop some cash in my paypal account: geek@thenailgeek.com
If youre having difficulty keeping beer in the fridge yourself - fill yours before you fill mine.
If you think the mack sucks, or youre just a tight git then please dont bother

nJoy

[mikehawk]

God job people, this is gonna be awesome for my site and my wallet. :nervous:

[geezzaa]

Hi mate .
I uploaded the files as it said, but i get this error Warning: copy(./gab/logo.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/GAB_admin.php on line 716
when i try to set an add.
Could you answer in Noobie for me... Ta

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by geezzaa

Hi mate .
I uploaded the files as it said, but i get this error Warning: copy(./gab/logo.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/GAB_admin.php on line 716
when i try to set an add.
Could you answer in Noobie for me... Ta

make sure there is a folder called gab in your forum directory and it is chmod to 0777

spinball - some of those features are planned. The others are great ideas - but may not make first version if thats cool.

[geezzaa]

Thanks mate ,
That bit is now sorted .

I got an error when i click on packages

Originally Posted by scaredofmysql

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc
mysql error: Table 'geezzaa_xxxxxx.GAB_packages' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Sunday 17th of April 2005 11:42:42 AM
Script: http://www.ukcultivator.biz/admincp/...isplaypackages
Referer: http://www.ukcultivator.biz/admincp/index.php?do=nav
Username: xxxxxxxx
IP Address: xxxxxxxx

Any ideas , or would you consider payment for installing ?

[The Geek]

hmmm. did you run the gab_install file? The db portion of the install creates that table.

[geezzaa]

Yes i did, , it went through the installatio ok and told me i had to make changes to 2 steps

[geezzaa]

Also i noted that your picture with options is different to mine, Is this new additions.
Probably me being thick

[The Geek]

the pictures in the first post are of the first beta.

Well.. somethings screwy with your install as you are also missing a phrase.
Can you just run the phrases and database part of the install again?

[geezzaa]

Hi mate, i re run these and still the same , do you think i should redown load the zip, upload and try again

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by geezzaa

Hi mate, i re run these and still the same , do you think i should redown load the zip, upload and try again

yea - give it a go. The install steps aer not completing correctly or something.