Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[Mum]

Congratulations. I have great people skills, not something you can learn, obviously

[wisebread]

Hello,

I've enabled advertisements on the "last post on a page", but they seem to only appear in the linear views. There is no ad block in hybrid and threaded views.

I understand if that's by design... but if that's the case, does anyone know how to have an ad block appear after the last post on hybrid and threaded views? I'm a VB noob but am not afraid of a little template hacking.

Thanks in advance.

Greg

[jnrdavo]

I have found the answer to the people using Version 4.x and not being able to see any menus after the hack has been installed.

I tried to run cpadmin on another pc, and what do you know, it looked fine. All the vbadmanagement menus where there.

Tried again on my normal pc, still not working. Only the vbadmanagment hack showing as installed, but when I click on one of the options, I would only get a white screen.

I have ie7pro installed on my normal pc, and have the "enable Ad Blocker " option checked. When this is checked, you can not see any of the menu items for vbadmanagment. When unchecked, it works fine...

Hope this helps some of you that are experiencing the same problem. If you don't have ie7pro, it may be some of your other explorer adons that are blocking what it thinks are ads...

[jnrdavo]

Has anybody got the code that I can use to put a .swf file in to this? I've used search, but can't find anything (you can't search for swf, only .swf). Also tried to search for flash, but no luck.

Code I have is:

<param name="movie" value="http://www.????.com/forums/images/Ads/The_Racing_Room-Dec_07.swf"> <param name="quality"
value="high"> <embed src="http://www.????.com/forums/images/Ads/The_Racing_Room-Dec_07.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="160"></embed>

[ProBlogger]

Do we need this for vb 3.7?

[andrew67]

Has anyone got this working on 3.6.0 ? I have been asked to install it on a forum and am having numerous problems with all the links being garbled in the admin cp.

It was previously working fine with v3 on 3.6.0 , does anyone know where I can get this older version ?

Thanks in advance

[CypherSTL]

Originally Posted by ProBlogger

Do we need this for vb 3.7?

The language file is not installing on 3.7 so I am holding off on trying again till 3.7 got RC or Gold and more things start getting ported.

[mobilescafe.com]

Hi i am using if condition to show ads to guests only in threadbit and the only problem i am facing is that the block created by the advertisement still shows to other members although no advertisement is displayed and the link "Remove this advertisement" also shows. How can i fix this.

[kollam003]

i have updated it very soon as it was released but i did not find anything new it was being made into more a complex stuff and many stuffs did not have anything no name and menus i got mad uninstalled it and then searched the whole net for the older version at last i got it and its working fine as before thanks to that version i will manage it without an update !!!

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Add new plugin

Product: vB Ad Management
Hook location: global_start
Title: Month conditional
Execution order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:

$adintegrate_month = date('F', TIMENOW);

Plugin is active? Yes

Save the plugin. Now you can use this conditional in your adcode:

<if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[adintegrate_month], array(February, April, June, August, October, December))">
Ad stuff goes here
</if>

You can change the list of valid months as you wish, of course.

I've been using this with great success until today when I went to put a new batch of advertising in place. I used:

<if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[adintegrate_month], array(January, March, May, July, September, November))">
<div align="center">
adstuff
</div>
</if>

and all i get is a blank ad box....

Any ideas?