Miscellaneous Hacks - Google Adsense Banners (or others) in Your Archive

This is a mod that has been working since 3.5.x. It still works in 3.7 beta 3 from my testing. I am reposting it to make it easier for people to find.

It is tested on my vbulletin 3.7 test forum and can be seen at http://eaforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/


Essentially, this product allows you to have adsense (or other) banners in your forum archives.

To install:
Import the product. Edit the plugin code to substitute your adsense code.

Note: I have marked this mod as using external content because just about any ad banner system you use pulls in content from another site, unless you host the banner images locally.

Unfortunately, I work full time now and am not actively supporting my mods. Thank you for understanding.

[amykhar]

Why would it break the TOS? It simply puts ad banners on archive content pages. Or am I missing some use of it?

[FlyBoy73]

Originally Posted by GrAveTzT

You just go to "Manage products" then hit the drop down tab where it says "edit" for the "Archive Adsense" Product. It will say "uninstall".



I realize that there is no support for this but I might as well ask anyway.

Can anyone confirm that this does not break the TOS of Google Adsense?

It does not break any Adsense TOS.

[crkgb]

Originally Posted by GrAveTzT

You just go to "Manage products" then hit the drop down tab where it says "edit" for the "Archive Adsense" Product. It will say "uninstall".

lol thank you so much stupid me could not find the name of the mod

[GrAveTzT]

I guess it shouldn't break the TOS.

Its just google demands you to have content on the site and I figured that the archive list may not be enough.

[almannai]

thanks, nice hack

[fukdawrld]

i cant seem to get it to show anywhere please help

[amykhar]

To the above poster (sorry, refuse to type that name ) I can't check your installation because your homepage isn't linked. However, when you first start using adsense banners on new pages, it often takes some time for the banners to show up. This is because it takes google a bit of time to serve the ads to the page. If they are still not there after a day, pm me the link to your archive and I'll see what I can see.

[Phornixx]

I dont seem to get this working, I dont use Adsense, I use AdutAdWorld ads, my code is as follows:

Header

$output.='
<div align="center">

<!-- begin Ad World Media for channel: Amateur , publisher: XXX http://XXXXXXX.com , Ad Dimension: Super Banner - 728 x 90 -->
<script language="javascript">
document.write('<iframe src="http://newt1.adultadworld.com/jsc/z5/ff2.html?n=607;c=2437;s=6320;d=14;w=728;h=90;p=6320" frameborder=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 scrolling="no" allowTransparency="true" width=728 height=90></iframe>');
</script>
<!-- end Ad World Media for channel: Amateur , publisher: XXX http://XXXXXXXX.com , Ad Dimension: Super Banner - 728 x 90 -->

</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
';

The error in the archive page is this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/www/XXXX/www.XXXXXX.com/archive/index.php(254) : eval()'d code on line 6

And the same for the footer code, any help?


Thanks in advance...

[Julie]

Thanks

Edit: I'm having some problems with some conditionals. The ads show up alright, but the user groups I've specified, shouldn't see the ads. Here's part of my conditional code:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 21, 26, 6, 1)"><p>No ads</p><else /><div align="center">
<p>Ads code</p>
</div>
</if>

But what it is doing, is (if using the code above) print out both "No ads" and "Ads code". What do I have to write in the plugin to get it to NOT display ads for members of user groups X, Y, Z, but show the ads for members of user groups A, B, C?

I also tried writing a PHP conditional

if (condition) {
}
else {
}

But that didn't work either :/

Thanks in advance

[veenuisthebest]

I believe your conditional is wrong..

Use this instead

<if condition="is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 21, 26, 6, 1)"><p>No ads</p><else /><div align="center">
<p>Ads code</p>
</div>
</if>