VB Banner Control 1.2

Hi,

with the allowance of Firefly I repost this hack. At first I want to mention that I used PPNs ads hack only for one file in the adminoptions as a template. He made this file so perfect that I looked how he solved the adminconfigurations file for his hack.
The rest is without viewing on other hacks coded by me.

This hack has the following features:

- allows you to create banners dynamicly
- you can view stats:
-> guestclicks ( how many not logged in guests clicked on the banner )
-> userclicks ( which user has clicked how often on which banner )
-> views ( how often is the banner viewed )
- control theses stats over an admin cp script which let you:
-> add new banners
-> edit banners
-> remove banners
-> view the stats
-> remove the stats
- NEW in 1.1: Useroverview:
-> you can give a user of your forum the possibility to view the stats via ACP
-> he can see the views, userclicks and guestclicks
- NEW in 1.2: Put Banners between categories
-> you can assign each category via phpmyadmin an banner which is under this category shown
-> therefor you've to split the categories, that you have space between them

For an example, you can have a view on www.kampfkunst-board.info. The 2 banners in the middle are created dynamicly by my scripts

Here in this post I add the hack, in the next post, the screenshots

[KarateKid]

hmmm, sorry, no idea,

but you could try to assign the cells manually by phpmyadmin?

Best Regards. :banana:

[Buddha]

is there a way of putting either an additional field to name each banner or add a thumbnail of the picture, or a link to the picture so that you can quickly remember which is which... as some of us may be using quite a few banners and buttons. it gets confusing to remember which is which and have to click into each and check the links.
thanks.

[KarateKid]

sure, it is

If I have the time I would implement it, but you could easy put a <img> tag before the information row, so that you have the banner there.

[Buddha]

which file are you referring to bud?

[KarateKid]

of course the admin file: banner_manage.php

[Buddha]

i fooled around with that file after i posted my reply, but i keep getting parse errors... i'm not that knowledgable with php...
i added a line of code to makelink by the other options, but it doesn't seem to work. any thoughts?

(thanks for the quick reply btw)

[KarateKid]

try to replace this line:

PHP Code:

echo "<td width='20%' align='center'>$ba[id]".makelinkcode("edit","banner_manage.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=edit&bannerid=$ba[id]"). 


with this line:

PHP Code:

echo "<td width='20%' align='center'><img src='$ba[url_to_banner]' border='0' width='40' height='20'>$ba[id]".makelinkcode("edit","banner_manage.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=edit&bannerid=$ba[id]"). 


Regards.

[Buddha]

that's excellent karatekid!
thank you very much!

*edit*
i set the width to 50px, and left the height out so the image wasn't distorted (as i use different size banners) and it looks great.
thanks again.

[Buddha]

i've fooled around a little more and set the picture as a link to the larger size. works great cause it appears in the same frame and it's easy to go back and forth to check them out (the 468 wide banners are harder to tell apart at 50px).

PHP Code:

echo "<td width='20%' align='center'><a href='$ba[url_to_banner]'><img src='$ba[url_to_banner]' border='0' width='50'></a>$ba[id]".makelinkcode("edit","banner_manage.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=edit&bannerid=$ba[id]"). 


the funny thing is, i was so close with my initial experimenting, but like i said, i don't know php so i wasn't using the right syntax.

[KarateKid]

no problem, you're welcome