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

[geezzaa]

Hi mate,
I reuploaded and ran the install again, same problem

[The Geek]

can you pm me admincp account so I can check it out?

[Lionel]

I also have problems with the install on a fresh vb install (3.07). Some tables would not create, and settings seem to be wrong. For example, if I select Record number of times shown? (this is a table insert every time a banner is shown!) yes and submit, it comes back to no.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc
mysql error: Table 'khforums.GAB_packages' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO GAB_packages
(title,description,price,currency,duration,frequen cy,scripts,forumids,ordinal,hits,views) VALUES (
'test',
'testing',
,
'USD',
657000,
2,
'index,showthread,forumdisplay,forumhome,0,',
'1,2,3,',
1
0,
0
)
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '
'USD',
657000,
2,


mysql error number: 1064

[The Geek]

hmmm. Ill look into these.

Well - actually I have totally re-written the packages side of things anyway to integrate with GAL as well as to allow multiple banner creations per package.

So in essence each package can contain 0 or more banners and 0 or more GAL entries.

Ill try and find out why the packages table didnt get created - but in the meantime I would just hold off with the packages - they are for the user cp which isnt even partially complete in this beta. Saying that - the banner side of things should be fully functional.

[venomx]

The Geek I seen this and was happy that you was making a banner script but then I see it is kinda like the rest in that it doesnt allow HTML ads.

I am also looking for one that has a login area for advertisers where they can set where the ads will appear and stuff.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by venomx

The Geek I seen this and was happy that you was making a banner script but then I see it is kinda like the rest in that it doesnt allow HTML ads.

I am also looking for one that has a login area for advertisers where they can set where the ads will appear and stuff.

Not sure what you mean by HTML ads. It allows static, rotating banners, and flash ads.

That side of things is working - and as far as I am aware, that side of things gives you more control and versatility than any other banner ad (feel free to correct me if I am wrong)

What I am working on right now is the usercp side of things.
It will allow users to browse packages of ads for sale, buy them, upload their own ads, edit them, and get statistics on the ads the already own.

[venomx]

I am talking about like if I join a banner exchange and they give me an IFRAME to use...
Will that work in this?

[geezzaa]

Hi mate
Thanks for the Pm .
How do i get the banners to display? I have set up a couple of banners and put $GAB_ad1 in the navbar template

[venomx]

The Geek if you can could you make it so they could also use UCash to buy ads?

[cyberdream]

I keep getting this error when login into the admin cp:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '=' in /home/content/t/a/l/talktgp/html/forum/admincp/index.php on line 581