PAH---Post Ad Hack

The Post admin hack is for those who need money for bandwith, or those who just don't mind advertising thought their site.

This hack adds posts randomly after someone replys. The posts are shown to the usergroups that are enabled to view them, in the forums that are set to show them.

This hack uses a bit of the organization of the tom bot hack, cause that is what inspried this idea, however the bot was totaly removed, and was replaced with a random ad genertor. The postbit used also was changed to make it dispaly clearly as an add rather than a post, however you can clone the postbit template to make it match.

If you use this hack, please leave the gama banner in the rotation. Its not required to use this hack, id just appriciate it since i did not create this hack for my use, but solely for anyone who would want to.

Also id like to see this in use on some of your sites so i know how i can improve it as well as other people see examples so if you post a url to your board with it installed, ill put a link in the first post.

ScreenShot:
Post Screen

File:
version 1.01

Updates:
From 1.0 to 1.01

Sites Using it:
waiting for urls to be submitted

[Dean C]

What an excellent idea !

- miSt

[Okiewan]

Great idea... but a major issue!

New thread... fine.
First reply.... fine.
Second reply........ doesn't show up.

Thought the problem was in newreply.php, but even putting the unmodified version back in, still won't show second reply.

There is no error, acts normal when submitting the second reply, but when it returns to the thread, the second reply is not there?

Help? Please!

[Okiewan]

This hack has some great potential!

Here is an error message that just showed-up:

Invalid SQL: SELECT script FROM adholder WHERE adid=1
mysql error: Unknown column 'adid' in 'where clause'

[zajako]

mist: Thanks

about the errors:

gah, ill look into this

[Okiewan]

Thanks ... great hack

[zajako]

version1-01

[zajako]

These directions are to update to PAH 1-01

open functions.php find

PHP Code:

$script=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT script FROM adholder WHERE adid=$post[adid]"); 


Change to:

PHP Code:

$script=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT script FROM adholder WHERE id=$post[adid]"); 


[Okiewan]

That did it VERY cool, thanks for the support!

[zajako]

not a problem, could you submit what url your using this on, so people can see it in action?

[Okiewan]

Once I release it, sure will. Problem now is that for those user groups that don't get the ads, there is still a blank post by "Ad Bot" . Any way around this? They have scroll past a blank post, seems it doesn't matter if there is an ad in it or not....