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

[mawtenbiker]

well i removed the slash and it still tells me the same thing just now that extra slash dont show up.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mawtenbiker

just

Should be reading gab/images/0/etc... I think your paths are squwompus.

It will most likely be two to three weeks for gas. I still have a good week to get my advertising system done for my site and then ill spend all my time on GAS. The majority of the hard stuff is done - however its a mamouth mack and that makes it very hard to guage how its going to come along. Regardless... Its one of the key things that will prevent me from upgrading and Im very keen to upgrade asap so rest assured its a very high priority.

[mawtenbiker]

figured it out. I didn't have my chmod set on my folders to write. thanks for the help and quick response.

[Protoman]

anybody have a copy of the beta still? I can't seem to get rid of the settings saying I'm using Beta 2.0 since I don't have the original installer/uninstaller any more.

also, tried installing rc1.6 again and got this error:

PHP Code:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/gab_class_core.php on line 189

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/gab_class_core.php on line 250 


running on PHP5

[RichieBoy67]

Hi geek,

I am trying to get the script to allow forums to have their own specific rotating banners seperate from the banner rotating in the header template...

Thanks

[mawtenbiker]

Alright, everything shows up, but when I dont set a url for advertising the want to advertise with us still shows up.

when I set cycle rate it still cycles at default setting

when you click on banner it doesn't take you to the url.

and probably a dumb question do I have to make a redirect page or is there one I don't know about?

Other than those this is a great set up for banner rotation.

[PixelFx]

how well does this run on vb3.0.8 and any updates planned in the near future? I was thinking of installing it ..

[The Geek]

Works fine for 3.08
Development is coming along very well. Primarily focusing on the user management aspect of it.

[jdingman]

Any latest developments for 3.5.x?

[The Geek]

They are coming along quite nicely however I have several major projects that are currently open and in beta stages for 3.5 that are taking a slightly higher priority. Ill see if I can get some time to look into it this weekend - however I dont think it will be released here... Then again... huh... maybe I will. Actually, its not a bad idea.

Ill look into it