>>--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.

[Dribbles]

Is there a way I can use a simple code to place banners anywhere I want instead of fixed positions? ie- something like $bannerhere ... that way I can sort of mix them up using the same code in between posts, in the header, and even use the sig mod to add them to some usergroups' sigs.

For instance, I see:

$showsponsorforumbit
$showthisad

Is $showthisad just the universal code for the banner bank? I won't be using forum sponsors, forum-specific banners, etc etc. Just a banner bank with maybe a rotation of 8-10 banners. Is $showthisad the only one I need to add to the header, postbit, sigs, etc etc? thanks

[trafix]

you can ust the "$showthisad2" anywhere (in theory)

[Dribbles]

thanks $showthisad2 with a 2 at the end as opposed to the $showthisad one?

[trafix]

yep the same string as you put in the header

[Dribbles]

thnx a million

[DannyITR]

i found this. Mabye it has something to do with my randomization problem.


http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Mathematical_functions.html
"As of MySQL 3.23.52, MySQL changed the way
RAND() functions, such that you MUST supply a
SEED to get an actual random number. If you do
not, each new connection will return close to the
same number as the previous new connection. An
example to test this would be to run the follow
command multiple times in a row. mysql -u
username -p -e'select rand()' A basic way to seed
this would be to run RAND(NOW())."

... maybe that's why !?

i tried it manually with rand(now()) and it always returns ad # 11 .. so
that's no good either

[DannyITR]

anyone?

[DannyITR]

It was my mysql version.

Are there banner hack for VB3 betta?

[trafix]

apparently...

VB3 Gold may have optional banners advertising

[DannyITR]

Do you think this hack can be adapted to vb3?