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

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Sia Bani

Would this work with VB3 beta 7?

No

[DiscussAnything]

Got it running, disregard my post 2 up.

I also did the modification that rotates the banner. Works fine but I noticed that the browser doesn't refresh the banners very well. If you load the first time on a showthread template for instance, all the other threads you view afterwards show the same banner. Until you refresh the browser. Is this a browser caching issue or can something be done to force the page to request a new banner? Do views get counted if its cached like this?

thx

[Greivog]

Is there any way to make this a random banner script.

I have several banners i want to show randomally in the "header" template

Anyone tell me how to do this?

Cheers

Paul

[SKerr]

I have ported KarateKid's banner mod to vBulletin 3.0.3 if anyone is interested..

I haven't done the userreport.php file yet, but I've got all the admin stuff done and it's working good on the site I'm administering. It was actually fairly easy to do - kudos to the vBulletin crew for writing a fairly decent API...

Speaking of which, is there any developer manual floating around for vB? Sure I've got the source, but it'd be nice to have a little philosophy behind the functions as well..

Thanks,
Steve Kerr (Killean)

[SVTBlackLight01]

I'm interested. Are you going to publically release it?

[SKerr]

Sure - give me a day or two as I'm still working on finishing up the report page for users..

Any requests?

[SVTBlackLight01]

Although I had already come up with a solution for vB2, a lot of people wanted a way to rotate multiple banners.

[SKerr]

That's already done - and I did it inside of the phpinclude_start template instead of dropping it in the globals.php file using someone's (can't remember off the top of my head) RAND() SQL fix.

I, and I think a few other people, had a problem using the view.php page to generate the image as it seemed either the browser was caching the image or whatever. So instead I just added code to phpinclude_start that increments the view value right after it selects the data from the database.

[SVTBlackLight01]

Sounds good! :up:

[SKerr]

Allrighty, here's my modifications.

- upgraded to work with vBulletin 3.0.x (I'm using 3.0.3, so I don't know for sure if earlier versions work %100)
- added springbok's fix to rotate banners properly
- user report now allows multiple banners per user

I haven't tested this to work with the 1.2 "banners between catagories" feature, so don't be surprised if this breaks if you implemented the 1.2 step 5.

I'm still a vB newbie, so if you find anything or want to improve on anything please let me know..

Thanks,
Steve Kerr (Killean)