Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.
If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.
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* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.
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You want to visit AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options and the vB Ad Management settings will all be there in a few sections near the bottom of the list.
You won't see a difference until you've found the settings as you haven't added the advertisement code you want to display yet.
Don't forget to click install so you will receive update notifications (top right of the first post).
"You want to visit AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options and the vB Ad Management settings will all be there in a few sections near the bottom of the list."
i cant see it, not in the the list!
I will tell you what i did and maybe you can pick up where i have gone wrong.
1. i downloaded the zip file and opened it.
2. i opened the zip folder, opened the 'includes' folder and uploaded the 'vb_ad_management' folder to the 'includes' folder of my vbulletin installation,
3. then followed these rest of the instructions 'Go to Style Manager > Edit Templates and...'
was i supposed to do anything else? thats all the instructions said?
So...you want to have a column and just the contents of the column again, but separately elsewhere on the page? Placing $left/right_adcode in your template should do that, but it will not randomise independently, it will be exactly the same content as the column. If you want it different it will have to be another custom adcode block.
Yes, basically I want to place the contents of the random adcode block into any template without any additional formatting stuff surrounding the block content. Are you saying that the variable $leftcolumn_adcode represents this data?
Example:
$leftcolumn_adcode = <a href="link to advertiser website1"><img src="link to image1"></a>
So that anywhere I place $leftcolumn_adcode, I will have the equivalent of the above html inserted? I understand about adding custom blocks and will likely do that, but I was just trying to isolate the html stuff as shown above without all the extra table formatting code that is included with the $leftcolumn_advertisement variable.
"You want to visit AdminCP > vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options and the vB Ad Management settings will all be there in a few sections near the bottom of the list."
i cant see it, not in the the list!
I will tell you what i did and maybe you can pick up where i have gone wrong.
1. i downloaded the zip file and opened it.
2. i opened the zip folder, opened the 'includes' folder and uploaded the 'vb_ad_management' folder to the 'includes' folder of my vbulletin installation,
3. then followed these rest of the instructions 'Go to Style Manager > Edit Templates and...'
was i supposed to do anything else? thats all the instructions said?
Etienne
Ah. Do you see the .xml file that is also in the .zip file? You must upload this using the Product Manager in your AdminCP.
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Originally Posted by Tourmeister
Yes, basically I want to place the contents of the random adcode block into any template without any additional formatting stuff surrounding the block content. Are you saying that the variable $leftcolumn_adcode represents this data?
Example:
$leftcolumn_adcode = <a href="link to advertiser website1"><img src="link to image1"></a>
So that anywhere I place $leftcolumn_adcode, I will have the equivalent of the above html inserted? I understand about adding custom blocks and will likely do that, but I was just trying to isolate the html stuff as shown above without all the extra table formatting code that is included with the $leftcolumn_advertisement variable.
That would be correct. It's easy enough to test and see.
Hey There very nice hack.. I believe I have followed your instructions in installing to the T but I am unable to get it to work for me. My knowldge in php is slim to none so I might have over looked something.. should I delete everything and try from the begining again?
Hey There very nice hack.. I believe I have followed your instructions in installing to the T but I am unable to get it to work for me. My knowldge in php is slim to none so I might have over looked something.. should I delete everything and try from the begining again?
Without any further details I don't have much option except to say "Yes". I've installed modifications wrong before, it happens to the best of us.
Don't forget to click install so you will receive notificaition of updates (link to the top right of the first post).
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05-06-2007, 02:18 PM
I've installed modifications wrong before, it happens to the best of us. 
