Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

HowdA All.

From the makers of Hydrogen comes the latest mack - GAB (Geek Advertising Banners).

This has come about by needing an advertising system that no other hack seemed to totally fulfill. Personally - I really didnt want to burden myself with supporting another hack - but I felt it was significantly better than other hack systems out there so I thought many would be able to benefit from it.

Whats so freaking cool about it?

1- use flash, normal, text based (google adsense) or rotating banners
2- Decide which scripts run the banners
3- Define which forums run the banners
4- define which usergroups can turn off the banners
5- Make ads stop at x amount of hits
6- Make ads stop at x amount of views
7- Make ads start/stop at certain times
8- track views and/or hits
9- Wipes your bum

Why am I releasing this now? It seems to be hip and trendy to release Banner hacks. In all reality - this has been a very long work in progress that is finally rounding the finsihing stages. The current RC pacakge is considered complete except for the show stats segment (its recording stats, but you cant browse them easily yet).

LIke with any hack (especially a Beta) back up you DB and files needing change (global.php,admincp/index.php).

Known issues:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

For users of GAB Beta 2, uninstall it and then install this version. In all reality, you could just revert the file changes and delete the GAB_ tables from yur DB (heck, you dont even need to do that).

To upgrade from RC1.5 to RC1.6, just replace existing files with the latest from the downloaded package and run the template portion of the installer (you can skip the rest of the install steps). You may have to revert your GUSH_main and GUSH_ad_row

Donations

I have never asked for donations for any of the macks I have done - however since I have spent well over 60 hours coding this - I thought I would stick my neck out there. If you like my mack, it brings you some money and you want to keep my fridge stocked with beer and Cheetos, then feel free to drop some cash in my paypal account: geek@thenailgeek.com
If youre having difficulty keeping beer in the fridge yourself - fill yours before you fill mine.
If you think the mack sucks, or youre just a tight git then please dont bother

nJoy

[king zell]

can I remove "want to advertise with us?" from the banner?

[The Geek]

Though punishable by imprisonment and tourture - go for it.
That side of things isnt active yet anyway

Just edit gab_ad

[DougM]

OK, I'm geeting this on admincp index

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '=' in /home/batter/public_html/offers/admincp/index.php on line 581

... and have read "remove the http there" but find no http there? Can anyone help to track down the cause of this?

... or "just add $printhr = false there it shud work"

But where do you add "$printhr = false" exactly?

Thank you.

EDIT : After trial and error I just removed = false; on thre line 581, 594 and 601. I also tried replacing them with $printhr = false. Either way the parse errors were gone.

I now have three GAB control menus in admincp. Have tried uninstall and reinstall with same result.

[CosmicBlend]

I dont know if this is a bug or not, but i noticed after i added a banner to rotation.. when you click on the banner it does not follow the link you provide. It just goes to http:// thats it... also the phrasing after adding a banner does not work correctly, and i have done the edit and save thing with phrases.

[m0nde]

My Admin Control Panel was missing phrases, but I've fixed that.

Now that I'm in...

I get this at the top of the "Settings" Control Panel page:

<td class="tfoot" colspan="2"

and the "SAVE" and "RESET" buttons are missing at the bottom.

On the "New Ad" Control Panel page:

<input type="submit" class="but

appears at the bottom and again the "SAVE" and "RESET" buttons are missing.

"Display Packages" results in the following mySQL error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM forum_GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc
mysql error: Table 'bostonlove.forum_gab_packages' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

"Add Package" has no "SAVE" and "RESET" buttons at the bottom.

"Display Frequency" Control Panel works! "SAVE" and "RESET" are available and all is wonderful.

"Add Frequency" Control Panel works too! "SAVE" and "RESET" are available as well.

The testing Control Panel seems to be working and shows the following:

Problem You have no usergroups set to actually view ads. Check your settings. 
Problem You have no scripts set to actually host ads! Go back to your settings bad boy. 
Potential Problem There are no forumids to show ads if the script is showthread or forumdisplay.

"SAVE" and "RESET" buttons show up on this page as well.

I'm eager to try this hack in beta, but I need a bit of help.

- Sid

[eXtremeTim]

how about the ability to handle ads like google adsense?

[Rich]

Hello,
Without a doubt, I will be using this system. Lets see, I have the Article System, the Autolinks System, and Now the Banner Advertising.

The Geek hits a hatrick!
*Rich hits install!

[Watson]

dont really wanna install this in the b3ta, cause I am uselss at coding, and prolly wont be much help, but I am defo keeping my eye on this topic

[The Geek]

Doug - you will have to manually remove your extra admincp options. (Hey - look on the bright side - you dont have to stumple around looking for the settings!)

cosmic - In this version your ads can not be prefixed with http://

m0de - hmmm. Edit the GAB_admin.php page and look for <? after the javascript and change to <?php to see if that helps.
The package problem is a known issue - it isnt implimented yet.

Extremetim - It will most likely make the final

Thanks guys - Ill be picking this back up in a couple of days to complete it. If you are not offay with coding - I would wait a few for a final release.

THanks

[uReside.com]

Whats the ETA on a final release? (subscribing)