VB Banner Control 1.2

Hi,

with the allowance of Firefly I repost this hack. At first I want to mention that I used PPNs ads hack only for one file in the adminoptions as a template. He made this file so perfect that I looked how he solved the adminconfigurations file for his hack.
The rest is without viewing on other hacks coded by me.

This hack has the following features:

- allows you to create banners dynamicly
- you can view stats:
-> 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 )
- control theses stats over an admin cp script which let you:
-> add new banners
-> edit banners
-> remove banners
-> view the stats
-> remove the stats
- NEW in 1.1: Useroverview:
-> you can give a user of your forum the possibility to view the stats via ACP
-> he can see the views, userclicks and guestclicks
- NEW in 1.2: Put Banners between categories
-> you can assign each category via phpmyadmin an banner which is under this category shown
-> therefor you've to split the categories, that you have space between them

For an example, you can have a view on www.kampfkunst-board.info. The 2 banners in the middle are created dynamicly by my scripts

Here in this post I add the hack, in the next post, the screenshots

[Parker Clack]

KK:

I found an error in the doreset subroutine.

You have

$DB_site->query("UPDATE banner SET views=0 AND guestclicks=0 AND userclicks=0 WHERE id='$bannerid'");

this only resets the views to 0 and the others do not get reset.

I changed this to:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE banner SET views=0,guestclicks=0,userclicks=0 WHERE id='$bannerid'");

and all get reset to zero as they should.

Thanks,
Parker

[KarateKid]

thank you for this information,

maybe I'll rebuild this hack and present it with all fixed bugs in some days

Regards.

[Parker Clack]

KK:

You are welcome. I would like to see this rewritten with all the bug fixes included. If you could make it so the banners can be put in a rotation and add groupids so you can group banners together by groupid. So if you have a banner with groupid=home then any banner with a groupid of home would get displayed in that group.

Parker

[scottct1]

I have installed this hack and it works good.

I wanted to rotate my ads so I installed the rotate code to my global.php

When I do this I have a problem. Different ads display but when a user clicks on them they are always taken to the highest number ad in the database.

Lets says I have 6 ads in my database, I click on http://www.dbstalk.com/click.php?bannerid=2 which should take me to site #2 instead it takes me to site #6.

If I remove the stuff from global.php and try going to http://www.dbstalk.com/click.php?bannerid=2 it takes me to site 2.

Anyone have any ideas?

[rharbison]

This is a really nice hack and easy to install.

I like the tracking features and how easy it is to use.

Please consider adding the ability to rotate ads, that would be very useful to me!

[rharbison]

I just tried to install the rotation hack, but hit a roadblock here:

> Open /global.php
> Find:
> if ($getforum['styleoverride']==1 or
> $bbuserinfo['styleid']<2) { $codestyleid=

I can't find that anywhere in my global.php file.

Is this something another hack added? I'm using 2.2.8 and the original global.php file.

[Dean C]

Ok on my forums i have set the banner width to the size i want it but when i insert the getlinkcode or whatever its called it and the image shows up as a 60 X 10 pixel image?

Any ideas

- miSt

[KarateKid]

hm, I don't have this problem noticed anywhere.

Can you tell me the link to your forum?

[Dean C]

I'll PM it to you

*You have mail*

- miSt

[arracing]

waiting patiently for the new version with all the bugs fixed and rotation added. Is their a timeframe for when this might be finished? :cross-eyed: