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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by icare

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: globalize() in /home/horny/public_html/admincp/gab_install.php on line 44 


I am getting this error when I run gab_install.php file. please help

THis is not a vb3.5x hack

[icare]

Originally Posted by The Geek

THis is not a vb3.5x hack

:disappointed: :disappointed: :disappointed: :disappointed:

Any way do youknow any hack similar to this one that i can use it Vb 3.5.3

I need to hide gogole in some of my forums...

Please help

[Bergman]

Originally Posted by ozaurora

Before I ask for help are the click stats supposed to work? I have setup the cron job, enabled click counting, etc. but not getting any click counts.

tia

Jo

I also have the same problem and i running vBulletin 3.0.12. Any one who have a solution ?

[harbormaster]

My gab_stats table crashes about 3 times a week. I am using vb 3.53.

Anyone have any ideas? I would hate to have to pull this product off my site.

[The Geek]

this is designed for 3.0x not the 3.5x series

[paulfletcher]

Will you be bringing this to 3.5.4 anytime in the near future?

Thanks,
Paul

[tgreer]

It works in 3.5.4. There is a small bug with the synopsis, though. Currently, it is hard-coded to only show the first 250 characters, even though there is an admincp setting to override this.

To fix, open the gars_underscore_class.php file and replace the snip_and_parse function with this version:

    function snip_and_parse(&$text, $readmore = 0)
    {
        $text = $this->parse_bbcode($this->prep_for_broken_tags(fetch_trimmed_title($text, intval($this->settings['maxsynopsischars']))));
        $readmore ? strlen($text)  > 240 ? $text . "... <a href='showthread.php?t=$readmore'><strong>More</strong></a>" : "" : "";
        return $text;
    }

You can adjust the hard-coded 240 if you like, though I chose to leave it on my site because I want all synopses to contain the "read more" link.

I've posted this fix at Geek's request.

[tgreer]

This was mis-posted, sorry. Moderator, this belongs in the Gars LITE thread!!

[paulfletcher]

Is there a difference between this Geek Banner System, and the paid Banner System on their website?

Thanks,
Paul

[paulfletcher]

Any thoughts? Just curious if I should get the paid version.

Thanks,
Paul