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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[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by 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..??

Is your postbit standard? Are you sure you pasted the code in correctly.

Without more info it's impossible to speculate what might be wrong.

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by arossphoto

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.

The postbit code should remain the same.

If you look back through the thread you'll see information on how to restrict the ad to appear/hide for given user groups.

Shout if you get stuck.

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by 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!

Trawl back through the thread. Pretty sure this has been done too

[imported_infitech]

Thnks UK Jimbo. Already have.

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by imported_infitech

Thnks UK Jimbo. Already have.

You should click install then

[arossphoto]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

To limit it just to certain user groups I'd recommend the following conditional rather than the in_array() solution posted above. This version ensures that secondary group assignments are checked too.

For a single user group (1 in this case)

PHP Code:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1)"> 


For multiple user groups (1, 2 & 3 in this case)

PHP Code:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, array(1,2,3))"> 


I only have one usergroup that I don't want to see the ads. Instead of entering all the groups that should see them like the example above, is there a way to just enter the usergroup that should not see them?

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks.

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by arossphoto

I only have one usergroup that I don't want to see the ads. Instead of entering all the groups that should see them like the example above, is there a way to just enter the usergroup that should not see them?

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks.

I think it was done on this thread somewhere before you can negate it like this:

PHP Code:

<if condition="! is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1)"> 


[arossphoto]

Thanks! Works perfectly. I did search here before I asked, but not much came up under "usergroup".

[veedee]

Awesome hack. I've donated $25, as it's made me at least $500 so far, what about you?

[arossphoto]

Originally Posted by Doc Great

I did (it again ) --> a little modification to show all guests Ad, but let the reg. users choose if they want to get ad-posts or not.

Is there any way to provide this option only to certain usergroups, like paying members?

[UK Jimbo]

Originally Posted by arossphoto

Is there any way to provide this option only to certain usergroups, like paying members?

Yup - the question's been asked/answered a few times in this thread already

[arossphoto]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Yup - the question's been asked/answered a few times in this thread already

Sorry, I don't think I was being very clear in my question. Doc Great provided a solution that would add an On/Off button to the user's control panel so they could choose to see ads or not. Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but I'd only like to give this option to certain paying members.

With your help I have set it up already so one usergroup never sees the ads, but I would like to give them the option in the Control Panel to turn ads on or off. I think I read all the posts here and I didn't see this answered.

Cheers,

Andrew

[UK Jimbo]

If you could create the userfield and have it specific to only certain usergroups that would solve the problem. I'm not sure if vBulletin will do that out of the box (the docs will do though!), if not I think it's probably a question for the mod requests forum on here.

Post back to let me/others know how you got on. Thanks!

[T.S.]

Great plugin, thanks. Now if only there was one to put an ad randomly between threads on the thread list.

[durapuma]

Hello,

is it possible, that this mod does not work in vB 3.5.4 ? I have just changed the postbit template, I have add the following at the bottom :

<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">Sponsoren</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">
<!-- Werbung Start -->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-4639893886504387";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_url = "008000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<!-- Werbung Ende -->

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

</div>
$spacer_close
</if>

after that, I import the Plugin. But nothing happens

What is the problem ? What do you need to help me ?


Best Regards from Germany

durapuma