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

[mkdevo]

:drool:

geek - looks fantastic, and well worth the wait! thank you!!

[The Geek]

Sorry - but it aint gonna happen tonight

It looks like I still have a couple more hours worth of work left on it and I cant be asked to continue on as my keyboard is wireless and I think someones cable tv remote is screwing with it and hence my code.

However I promise it will be released tomorrow. I only have some testing, a bit more on the readme, and it will be in a useable state.
Then all I will have to do is the stats viewer (but as I mentioned before, that can wait until before a final release).

See you all tomorrow.

[FamilyCorner]

Originally Posted by The Geek

However I promise it will be released tomorrow.

Well thank you for all your hard work! Looking forward to trying it out

[luckske]

PHP Code:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '=' in /home/luckske/public_html/cinema4d/vb/admincp/index.php on line 614 


anyone knows what i did wrong ? i followed every step but still keep getting this error :disappointed: .

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Sorry - but it aint gonna happen tonight

It looks like I still have a couple more hours worth of work left on it and I cant be asked to continue on as my keyboard is wireless and I think someones cable tv remote is screwing with it and hence my code.

However I promise it will be released tomorrow. I only have some testing, a bit more on the readme, and it will be in a useable state.
Then all I will have to do is the stats viewer (but as I mentioned before, that can wait until before a final release).

See you all tomorrow.

np mate! we will wait.

Only one suggestion what would be great, having the templates located into a category on our template listings. I dont know if u understand my english. What I would like is to have all templates grouped, cuz in the beta version they are not, or at least my installed version didnt group them.

Cheers!

[high]* COBRAws loads his paypal too [/high]

[The Geek]

RC1 is out.
Be sure to read the README. The only thing I think is still missing is the stats viewer (on its way).

To upgrade from Beta 2, Uninstall it and then install the new package.

[The Geek]

*cough* erm. I just re-uploaded the zip as I stumbled across a typo in the advertising.php file. If you downloaded before the date on this post - just download again and replace the advertising.php file

[tomshawk]

Originally Posted by The Geek

*cough* erm. I just re-uploaded the zip as I stumbled across a typo in the advertising.php file. If you downloaded before the date on this post - just download again and replace the advertising.php file

Excellent, I'll start testing this soon, but...

One question.

I like that it butters my toast, but, could we add the bumm wiping feature back in, I really liked that one.



Thanks for the hard work, I'll be testing this shortly

[The Geek]

Thanks - ill look to put it back in! Make sure you use the package I just uploaded as I squashed a couple more bugs I came by whilst working on the stats system

To upgrade from RC1 to RC1.01, just download the latest package and replace all physical files.

[steadicamop]

Ok, just tried installing RC1.01 and get this error on /index.php

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/gab_class_core.php on line 188

That line of code is:

PHP Code:

foreach($script['ads'] as $key=>$value){ 


Any ideas?

I'm not going to uninstall it just yet ... will see if this is something wrong at my side ... or a bug.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by steadicamop

Ok, just tried installing RC1.01 and get this error on /index.php

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/gab_class_core.php on line 188

That line of code is:

PHP Code:

foreach($script['ads'] as $key=>$value){ 


Any ideas?

I'm not going to uninstall it just yet ... will see if this is something wrong at my side ... or a bug.

Looks like an untrapped check against empty ads.

Ill go put a check in - however in the meantime, try to ad a banner and see if that sorts it

[steadicamop]

That was with a banner set up ... will try and alter some settings on the banner page - will let you know in a few mins.

Quick reply ... respect sir!

[steadicamop]

Nope, tried with, without a banner and altered settings, had a few problems as when I clicked save for a new banner, nothing was there after, I had to do this three times before one showed up.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by steadicamop

That was with a banner set up ... will try and alter some settings on the banner page - will let you know in a few mins.

Quick reply ... respect sir!

Another thing might be that you have unticked a scripts 'use master' option and that script has no ads in it (hence the error). Im going to go down and set it up to test it.

I guess I like to lurk about after new releases to make sure that no one has any problems

[steadicamop]

Reading thru the readme file, the scripts page is for entering what template (?) the ads will be on ... in my case I went for forumhome, so I put that in the ID and Description .. and ticked both boxes, clicked save and nothing appeared, did this 3 or 4 times, nothing has shown - I'm presuming this isn't right?