Adsense Reveune Sharing Hack

This hack will allow you to offer Google Adsense revenue sharing to your vbulletin board users. Revenue sharing is a great way to reward your board members for their loyalty and adds a feeling of ownership in the board and it's success.

Add a User Profile Field with these settings:

Profile Field Type: Single-Line Text Box
Title: (your choice)
Description: (your choice)
Field Editable By User: Yes
Private Field: Yes
Field Searchable On Memers List: No
Show On Members List: No
(I have only specified settings for the fields you will need to change from their defaults.)


In the php_include_start template, add this code:

PHP Code:

srand();
$random_number = rand(0, 1);
$ga_adsenseid = 'ENTER_YOUR_ADSENSE_ID_HERE';
if ($random_number == 1)
{
    if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread')
    {
        if (!empty($_REQUEST['t']))
        {
            $ga_threadid = $_REQUEST['t'];
        }
        else
        {
            $ga_threadid = $_REQUEST['threadid'];
        }
        $ga_thread = $DB_site->query_first("
            SELECT postuserid
            FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread
            WHERE threadid = $ga_threadid
        ");
        $ga_user = $DB_site->query_first("
            SELECT field7 AS adsenseid
            FROM userfield
            WHERE userid = $ga_thread[postuserid]
        ");
    }
    elseif (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showpost')
    {
        if (!empty($_REQUEST['p']))
        {
            $ga_postid = $_REQUEST['p'];
        }
        else
        {
            $ga_postid = $_REQUEST['postid'];
        }
        $ga_post = $DB_site->query_first("
            SELECT userid
            FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread
            WHERE postid = $ga_postid
        ");
        $ga_user = $DB_site->query_first("
            SELECT field7 AS adsenseid
            FROM userfield
            WHERE userid = $ga_post[userid]
        ");
    }
    if (!empty($ga_user['adsenseid']))
    {
        $ga_adsensecode = $gauser['adsenseid'];
    }
} 


Then, where ever you have your AdSense display code, find the spot where you specify your AdSense ID and replace it with $ga_adsenseid . Also make sure in the above code that you enter YOUR AdSense ID in the spot above where it says "ENTER_YOUR_ADSENSE_ID_HERE".

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by TheWebJunkie

Where can i find that hack ?

Click on his profile and select random ads in thread per usergroup. That is Nexialys few posts above.

It does not share revenue, but conveniently places it in thread. You can put googles script in it if you wish.

[artonex]

Using his hack and mine together would be very good

[Gastongr]

Thanks for Sharing TheWebJunkie.
Is there an additional section in the user cp so they can view their ads and manage when they want them displayed?.
ALso is there any kind of control over users who register and never post, like points for posting or something.?

Originally Posted by TheWebJunkie

Using his hack and mine together would be very good

you can build a merge if you like... as you're not a coder, just ask someone to do it... but refuse to pay for such a hack next time... most coders here will do it for free if they see a good advertising power in it!

[Geographic2]

Using adsense makes your forums look like crap and lines the pockets of Googles shareholders more than it will ever benifit your members. In other words you're being exploited but... Proceed, Carry on, Pretend I never said nuthin...

[Polo]

@nexialis... this hack can be a good one for webmaster forums

@geographic2... if you know how to place them adsense can be a great tool to maintain your site... you can always have them display for guests only... and like I said, you go to know how and where to place them... google adsense is the best thing that could happen to many webmasters

@thewebjunkie... thanks for sharing this with the community... is greatly appreciated specially since you had to pay for it... I dont know if I would use it, with google TOS I'm still not really sure if they agree with this type of hacks..... anyways, thank you

[artonex]

Originally Posted by Polo

@thewebjunkie... thanks for sharing this with the community... is greatly appreciated specially since you had to pay for it... I dont know if I would use it, with google TOS I'm still not really sure if they agree with this type of hacks..... anyways, thank you

Google do allow this hack, a few ppl emailed google about it, there email reply can be found on http://forums.digitalpoint.com

[Polo]

can you post the link to that specific thread? I tried searching but couldnt find anything...

[artonex]

hmmm they must have cleaned up some old threads as its not there anymore

[Acido]

Originally Posted by TheWebJunkie

Field Editable By User: Yes

Sorry, but How can the user edit his self ID?
Can you provide some screens ?

Thanx !