Major Additions - vB.Sponsors - Forum and Category Sponsorship Ads (and AdSense) with Statistics

vB.Sponsors
Forum and Category Sponsorship Ads with Statistics

Add sponsor's ads or Google AdSense to forums & categories

INTRO:
This extension will allow you to add sponsors to you forums and categories or use Google AdSense. You can also track the hits to each sponsor by date as well. See below for more features.

For vBulletin 3.7.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1557085.

For vBulletin 3.6.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1116730

For vBulletin 3.5.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103327

FEATURES:
-Enable sponsorship on forums and categories
-Ability to use Google AdSense code
-Use a banner or a text link
-Supports large banners for the top of the sponsored forum and small banners for the forum listing
-Tracks hits for each sponsor
-Statistics viewable inside Admin CP
-Ability to alter the "Forum sponsored by:" text
-Easy to use and install

INSTALLATION:
Documentation is located here.

THANKS:
...to vBulletin.org and its members.
...to the people who have installed this mod, suggested improvements and found bugs.

FEEDBACK:
Feedback is always welcomed! Good or bad. Post all feedback and feature requests in this thread or in the forums above. Trust me, I'll be reading it even if I don't respond to every post. You can also reach me at DigitalDeviation.com or on Twitter @JustinDoles.

SUPPORT:
Please post as much detail as possible with any code or screenshots pertaining to the issue. MySQL, PHP and web server software versions are helpful. You can obtain these from the Admin CP in vBulletin.

DONATE:
If you like this product, feel free to buy me a cup of coffee.


VERSION HISTORY:
2.0.7 - Bugfix / Feature Add
-Added support for vBulletin 3.8.x.
-Added vbulletin-style.xml file to easily import template modifications for vBulletin 3.8.x.
-Previous versions must manually edit the templates.
-Added a verification for the forum path in link.php.

---KNOWN BUGS---
-Invalid Redirect
--You will need to add each sponsor URL (FULL URL) to the "Redirect Domain Whitelist" in the vBulletin Options -> Site Name / URL / Contact Details section. See screenshot below.

Don't forget to click the install link below if you use it.

[DannyITR]

Anything?

[garyopa]

I recently installed this on my site.

I still using vb3.8.6 because we have a very customized skin, that is not very compatible with vb4.0

And I was able to get this plugin to work perfectly, by manually adding the info found on your website.

If I try importing the vbulletin-style.xml, even tho it is for vb3.8.6, it causes my forums to be all throw in together, no catergories, thank god for REVERT changes!

Anyhow, the only problem I am having is, when someone clicks on the link, it takes them of course to the link.php file, and it does redirect them after a few seconds.

But during the screen display, I get this error message:

Could not find phrase ''.

Any help in getting this right, would be most welcome!

[DannyITR]

Any update on the 4.0 version?

[Mr Peabody]

im pretty sure if there was an update it would have been posted.

[DannyITR]

Desperately waiting for the 4.0 version.

[socalsoccer]

Do Not import the style.xml file on 3.8 if your skin is custom. I did this and now lost my custom skin style. Rather do it manually.

[socalsoccer]

For those who accidentally upload the style xml, revert your forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost . This is where those nice category dividers are.

[socalsoccer]

I cannot get this to work and have tried numerous edits to link.php . Most of us do not have lines listed in notepad, but I have found the area we are supposed to edit. Strange is I see no branding at the bottom of my forum, is this a possibility as to why it is not working?

Thanks

I even looked through every thread dating back to rev. 3.6 . It seems most people are having the same problem I am.

[FIM]

Thanks

[skor]

Originally Posted by garyopa

I recently installed this on my site.

I still using vb3.8.6 because we have a very customized skin, that is not very compatible with vb4.0

But during the screen display, I get this error message:

Could not find phrase ''.

Any help in getting this right, would be most welcome!

I am getting the same message

When I click the banner, I am getting the following messge...

Redirecting...


Could not find phrase ' '.

Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect you.
But then it redirects ok...anyone know what could be causing the Could not find phrase message?

I got this with the previous version as well...

EDIT: I think it's related to this part of the link.php...I'm too much of a novice to know how to fix it but maybe one of the gurus here can help? It seems like a fairly simple thing..

PHP Code:

                        $vbulletin->url = $arr['sponsor_url'];
                        eval(print_standard_redirect(''));        
                    }
                    else {
                        eval(standard_error(fetch_error('sponsor_url_invalid')));