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.

[skor]

Well I couldn't really figure out an elegant solution but I did this to get rid of the error message..

Replaced

PHP Code:

eval(print_standard_redirect('')); 


With..

PHP Code:

eval(print_standard_redirect("Thank you for supporting our sponsor!",false,true)); 


Then instead of

Could not find phrase ' '.

it's...

Thank you for supporting our sponsor!

What is weird is that I have this installed on one site and I don't see the redirect page at ...but on the other site, I do....

[cyberchief]

I am new to vBulletin... and I have been searching and searching for something like this. Unfortunately, I am on 4.0.8. I NEED THIS! I am about ready to start selling advertising on my site... but not many options. Puhleeese! Please let me know this will be available soon!!!

[Jim Oaks]

For some odd reason I'm getting (2) sponsor banners showing up in the index with my default template;

http://www.therangerstation.com/foru...=103&styleid=2

But only (1) showing up with a new template I recently added:

http://www.therangerstation.com/foru...103&styleid=10

The recent template is the way it's probably suppose to be displayed. I've compared the templates and they look to be coded the same, but I can't figure out why styleid=2 is showing the extra banners?? One's on the left and one's on the right. Any ideas which template mod could have caused that error?

I've thought about just copying/pasting the code from the template style that shows corectly to the ones that don't, but I don't understand the template enough to know if that would affect the look of the template. The new template that works correctly was purchased and added.

Suggestions?

[TheInsaneManiac]

4.0 when?

[Jim Oaks]

Well, I ended up fixing the problem by just copying/replacing the code from the new template files used in this mod to the older existing templates.

[speedracer68]

This would be great on 4+

Does anyone know of anything I can use in the mean time?

[Gadget_Guy]

Hi,

How do I center the banner on the sponsoring page?

Can anyone help?

See attached image... I want that sponsor banner centered.

D.

[Gadget_Guy]

Anyone?

I'd appreciate the help.

D.

[Jim Oaks]

Anyway to make it add up a monthly total in addition to the daily total?

[Deviation]

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