Major Additions - Forum Ad Management

This modification allows you to add advertisements to your vBulletin forum. It is a module that extends the functionality of vB Ad Management. There is no restriction regarding the content you can use. Adsense, images, flash, plain text and you can use template conditionals and phrases as well. It will put anything, anywhere. Just about.

Features:
- Timed ads.
- Self-refreshing ads.
- Ad rotations.
- Ads using conditionals, phrases and templates.
- Ad sharing.
- Default ad blocks (typical ad block screenshot attached) for all the most popular locations.
- Ads for distributed content (emails and feeds).
- Instant previews before publishing.
- No template edits necessary.
- Compatibility with external pages and software.
- Appearance blending to make your ads look like part of your vBulletin templates.
- Alter hyperlinks to include your referral codes.
- Further details in the manual.

Unique to this module:
- Share your ad space with thread starters and posters.
- Default ad placement at customisable positions with forum listsing, thread listings, posts, announcements, feeds and "Send to a friend" and "Email member" emails as well as global placement for your forum archives.

Required plugins:
vB Ad Management

Other modules:
Blog

That's probably about it. If it's not enough, its modular format means you can extend it to suit yourself with comparative ease (relatively speaking).

vB Ad Management is supported with a link back to my homepage in the footer. This module does not add further branding.

Installation instructions:
Installation
Upgrading from an older version of vB Ad Management

[imedic]

If you want to place an ad after last post here what you can do:

- in Forum Ad Management / Posts screen in admin panel add in Postbit inclusion field (at bottom)

$vbam_location[whateveruwanthere]

- in Style Manger / Edit templates open Showthread templates / SHOWTHREAD template (you need to double click to see it in the list) and look for

<!-- / start content table -->

after add:

$vbam_location[whateveruwanthere]
<br />

Of corse whateveruwanthere can be replaced by individual name.
You also need to play with numbers of display and repeat number untill it show only one. My setting is 3 and 38 (don't ask why , it is working I don't bother )

It is looking clear as a last post. You can see it here

Aparently I run into some problems on IE , add is showing 3 times ?

There is no way I can make add show 1 time setting numbers in times to display. The edit worked fine but this mode has still bugs.
I leave it like this for when this mode will be upgraded if it will be.

Alternate way to do it (the hard way, ignoring most of this mod) but for postbit legacy (you can find in Advertisment templates the code for postbit)
Paste this:

<table class="tborder advertisement" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="margin-top:6px">
<tr>
	<td class="thead" style="line-height:1.4em" colspan="2">
		&nbsp;
	</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
	<td class="alt2" width="175px">
		<div>
			<a class="bigusername">$vboptions[bbtitle]</a>
		</div>
		<div class="smallfont">
			$vbphrase[vbam_advertisement]
		</div>
		<div>
			&nbsp;<br />
			<img src="$vboptions[showdeficon]" class="inlineimg" width="0" height="0" alt="$vbphrase[vbam_advertisement]" border="0" />
		</div>
	</td>
	<td class="alt1">
		<if condition="$show[messageicon] OR $post[title]">
			<div class="smallfont">
				<if condition="$show[messageicon]">
					<img src="$vboptions[showdeficon]" class="inlineimg" alt="$vbphrase[vbam_advertisement]" border="0" />
				</if>
				<if condition="$post[title]">
					<strong>$vbphrase[vbam_sponsored_links]</strong>
				</if>
			</div>
			<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
		</if>	
		<div class="postbit_adcode adcode">
			$vbam_adcode[postbit]
PLACE INSTEAD OF THIS THE AD CODE ( GOOGLE AD ...) 
		</div>
	</td>
</tr>
</table><br />

instead of $vbam_location[whateveruwanthere] from steps described above.

Place your banner (google ad code ...) instead of bold caps lock text from above (you need to scroll to see it, fifth line from below up) .

This until a better solution is found using this mod.

[kevcj]

Is there a way for this modification to serve ads to other sites, such as wordpress blogs?

I have wordpress installed in a folder under vbulletin - it's being used as an articles section. It would be nice to have a script that could display the ads in the forum, as well as non-vb pages.

[Geek Specialtie]

Originally Posted by kevcj

Is there a way for this modification to serve ads to other sites, such as wordpress blogs?

I have wordpress installed in a folder under vbulletin - it's being used as an articles section. It would be nice to have a script that could display the ads in the forum, as well as non-vb pages.

I don't know about that, but I use Random Ads Plugin for Wordpress. Very easy to manage.
http://www.datafeedr.com/random-ads-plugin/

[ShawneyJ]

wow what mess, whens the next update coming out please? in the mean time i think i'll stick with the old mod.

[ianwatkinz]

The following dependencies were not met:
The product vbam must be installed before this product may be installed. (Compatible starting with 5.00)

What did I do wrong here? I uploaded the files and tried to add the .xml from the products folder.

[DinarMet]

I am having a problem using this system with sharing Google AdSense.

My AdSense ads show, but the AdSense ads I share do not.

The problem is that it appears that the modification it does not take into account the google_ad_slot field.

The AdSense format looks like this (note xxxxxxxxxx is the Google account variable):

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
/* header */
google_ad_slot = "032862920";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

The google_ad_client field is the variable controlled by the system to determine who's ads to serve.

The google_ad_slot field controls the style of the ad and reports to the corresponding channels.

The variable placed in the code to control the ownership fo the ad looks like this in the Forum Ad Management module:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "#field5#";
/* header */
google_ad_slot = "032862920";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

I am able to get the first variable to work properly but the shared codes all have different google_ad_slots which do not permit the ads to run properly except for
mine.

I created a 2nd variable for the google_ad_slot which is included in the member profile along with the google_ad_client:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "#field5#";
/* header */
google_ad_slot = "#field6#";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

The problem is that the code now breaks at the google_ad_slot and doesn't show the ad.

Looks like this on the screen. There's ad space but no ads and this on the bottom:

032862920"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //-->

I believe the script is converting the " character to it's html equivalent &quot; thus rendering the javascript error.

I was able to remove the google_ad_slot from the code (which means all ads run default Google styles - blue-title / black-text / green-url), but I don't know if this is permissible under Google TOS. I would really prefer to blend my ads better with customized ads using the google_ad_slot field.

Any help here would be so greatly appreciated.

[softjury]

Hi,

i'm running vBulletin 3.8.4, vB Ad Management 5.02, Forum Ad Management 1.01 and have issues with $stylevar.

I have this (example) in Forum Ad Management/Postbit adcode:

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" width="100%">

which gets translated to

<table cellpadding="" width="100%">

when sent to the client - the $stylevar is replaced with an empty string.

I don't want to put numeric values in there like "6" but use the $stylevar variables.

What do i have to do to get template variables to work in postbit adcode?

Thanks,

Marcel.

[tuga-gsm]

hi.

forum ads does not work on 3.8.4 default theme

i get this error:

Warning: Division by zero in [path]/includes/functions_forumlist.php(393) : eval()'d code on line 40

any idea how to fixit?

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by tuga-gsm

hi.

forum ads does not work on 3.8.4 default theme

i get this error:



any idea how to fixit?

this is so unsupported. i'd go with another product.

[sleepyboy2004]

I get the same thing

    Warning: Division by zero in [path]/includes/functions_forumlist.php(393) : eval()'d code on line 40

Someone needs to jump on and find a fix or create a new mod like this one.