Randomly positioned ad in between postbits in showthread

Inspired by this hack.

The ad is positioned randomly after one of the postbits. We use this for positioning adsense ads on visordown.com.

Install the attached plugin then add the following code to your postbit or postbit_legacy template:

<if condition="$GLOBALS['adsense_position'] == $post['postcount'] && $GLOBALS['adsense_position'] > 0">
$spacer_open 
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"> 

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> 
<tr> 
	<td class="thead" align="left">Sponsored Links</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
	<td class="alt1" align="center">

<!-- ad code goes here -->

	</td> 
</tr> 
</table> 

</div> 
$spacer_close 
</if>

Changelog

v1.01
Bug fix: The ad code shouldn't appear on PMs any more (template change)

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[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Hi GrendelKhan

Are the pages publically visible or do you have to register to see them? If Googlebot can't get at the pages (and content) from the same URL that you're using to access it then it can't index it. Sometimes it might take a while for pages to get indexed. I'd give it a couple of days and see how it goes. Post back and let me know how you get on.

Hey jimbo, thanks for the reply (sorry I've been out this week and didn't see it).

The threads are all public. (no registration necessary to read)
And its been like this for weeks. :/

(eg:
here's one with a ton of text about the superbowl and ward winning MVP...but again, the ads are still "free forum software etc."
http://www.naestar.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19196 )

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

(eg:
here's one with a ton of text about the superbowl and ward winning MVP...but again, the ads are still "free forum software etc."
http://www.naestar.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19196 )

Hotels in Seoul of Korea
Animaged images for ?150
All Steelers games on DVD

were the ads I got. Looks like it's working.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Hotels in Seoul of Korea
Animaged images for ?150
All Steelers games on DVD

were the ads I got. Looks like it's working.

really? :/
is some kinda of geo-location in effect? where are you located?

I get 4 forum software or other related ads. (ie: pretty useless)
(see image).

can you check some other threads and see if you get related ads? I'd appreciated it greatly. I want to see if its just feeding me those ads.

[tamborinegal]

Works very well. Thank you.

Clancy

[Makaveli105]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

really? :/
is some kinda of geo-location in effect? where are you located?

I get 4 forum software or other related ads. (ie: pretty useless)
(see image).

can you check some other threads and see if you get related ads? I'd appreciated it greatly. I want to see if its just feeding me those ads.

I see relevant ads.

Steelers pendants
Pittsburg Steelers
Pittsburg Steelers
Seoul Hotels

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Thanks UK Jimbo, I'll give it a go

[arossphoto]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Took less time than I thought - give this a try:

// only for non-threaded display
if($threadedmode == 0) {

	// only need to do the calculation once
	if( $counter == 2 && empty($GLOBALS['adsense_position'] && $totalposts >= 3 ) ) {

		$_min = $postcount;
		$_max = min($totalposts,$_min+$perpage-1) - 1;

		$GLOBALS['adsense_position'] = rand($_min,$_max);
	}

}

I've installed and it's working very well. Will the code above display the ads after the first post and before the last? Would you mind showing me what the whole code for the post bit would look like, and is it possible to show the ads to certain usergroups?

Cheers.

[Marv]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Any luck?

Sorry for the delay, Jimbo

I?ve installed your code and modified it, so that certain usergroups see/don?t see ads, and to create different ad-channels to have a better overview (targeting).

The code seemed to work fine, but in the last days I had to notice that ads also appeared under the last post. Dunno why, but that?s the situation by now.

[UK Jimbo]

Hi guys - I'm really tied up at the moment. Will take a look ASAP but that might be in a few days time.

James

[Niall Fernie]

I know this is a bit basic, but I missed it on about 20 ocassions during my installation on this plugin.

Make sure you have the plugin/hook system enabled on your board, I was doing a test install on my other vB setup (small site - new install) and could not get this to work at all, until I read the text that vB had been almost shouting at me since the start "the plugin/hook system is currently disabled..."

Enabled it and worked first time.

I know you've probably just wasted 30 seconds of your life reading this, but I've just read every post here before reading the error message so just hoping to save someone 10 minutes.

Great plugin, easy install (especially if you're not as dopy as me)

[cleeeck]INSTALL[/cleeeck]

[sandrodz]

installed, works like charm... only concern is if I can set it to display at the end of the last post only? or after the first post only? cause I believe this kind of random placing isn't efficient in my case... thank you!

[imported_infitech]

This stretches my page

[Niall Fernie]

Now that I have this up and running, can anyone tell me how to modify the first line condition to check for user rank, ie I would also like my Junior members to be able to see the ads. I already have it checking for forums and usergroups. Junior members (less than 30 posts) dont contribute as much content to the site as more senior members so they may as well see the ads.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[The Chief]

Does this work on postbit template, doesn't seem to work on mine, it creates the first post normal, then every post after that just decreases in size, lol..

the last post is super small..??

[AzzidReign]

Sweet! I've been looking for this! Thanks a lot!

I had some troubles, but once I put the code in both postbit and legacy, then the ads started showing up! Brilliant mod! Thanks very much!

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by imported_infitech

This stretches my page

Nice forum style - doesn't look very standard to me though.

You probably need to change the HTML accordingly