Miscellaneous Hacks - Rotating Banner System

With the Rotating Banner System software, you may publish literally anywhere standard banners and advertising, with no restriction but your imagination. Unlike many other products, it allows to show an unlimited amount of banners and advertising, which are randomly shown at the places you choose, and you may refer generically to an Ad by using specific placeholders.

Also the management is straight-forward and simple to use. Forum administrators with maintenance rights may add, edit and delete records from the Administration Control Panel (ACP), one of each representing a banner. After saving the new banner settings, they are immediately visible at your board.

Compatibility: from vBulletin 3.6.5 onwards

By the way, I do also install the hack on your boards, but since I am very, very busy, it may take some time (weeks) until it gets done.


Tutorials:

• How-to create my first banner (Flash).

Updates:

• 2.0.1: Simple click tracker added, HTML help included.
• 2.0.3: Small bug fixes; additional banner list, navigation bar, E-Mail field for banner event notifications and automatic save on scroll setting; absolute URL to rbs_banner.php in order to allow click tracking on non-standard pages; supported languages: English, Italian; Help file clean-up.
• 2.0.5: Small bug fixes; additional details in banner list; email notification for epired banners.
• 2.0.6: vbCMS compatibility bug fix; additional banner lists.
• 2.0.7: Usergroups filter: now it is possible to define a list of usergroups which may show a banner; additional vbCMS compatibility bug fix.
• 2.0.8: Various fixes and most of all, inclusion of the right files: admin_rbs.php, cpnav_rbs.xml
• 2.0.9: Extra comma fix in new record creation.
• 2.1.0: Fix for an occasional banner type selection bug, when the sample banners have been deleted or disabled.
• 2.2.0 (Major upgrade): Up to 10 different banner locations. Requires changes to your existing placeholders in your templates, since a more generic format has been chosen. If you don't need more than 2 different locations, you don't need to upgrade. Changed files: rbs_banner.php, admin_rbs.php
• 2.2.1: Minor bug fix in files: admin_rbs_h_banner_list.php, admin_rbs_v_banner_list.php
• 2.2.1: Hotfix for Max Clicks saving bug.
• 2.2.2: More listings and less files. PDF Help. Separate Italian add-ons and help. Duplicate button.
• 2.2.3: Minor bug fixes. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.2.4: Flash Banner support (beta). Changed files: product-rbs.xml, rbs_wrapper.swf, admin_rbs.php, English Help.
• 2.2.5: Hotfix for vBulletin 4.0.2 compatibility bug.
• 2.2.6: Checking for installed Flash Wrapper rbs_wrapper.swf; A few English FAQ; Help files. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.3.0 (Major upgrade): New modules: Delete Expired Banners, Disable Expired Banners; Detail Banner Statistics with unique access key for your customers; Updated help; Changed files: all.
• 2.3.1: Hotfix for missing field in rbs_hist table. Changed files: none, just update product.
• 2.3.2: Added: Unsupported option for setting any number of available positions between 1 and big bang. Fixed: Small bug and speed issues. Removed: Italian translation. Italians may now request support at www.vbulletin.it. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.3: Fix: Copy selected forum ID's during banner duplication. Changed: start and end hours for new banners are set to 0:00 and 23:59 respectively. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.4: Option: Send Mail Before. This option allows to schedule expiring banners differently. New variables for emails: $rbs_enddate: This variable holds the formatted banner ending date and time based on the standard formats for date and time in vBulletin settings; $rbs_name: This variable holds the banner name. EMail Notifications option description: Added direct links to the email phrases for quick changes. Changed files: rbs_mail_cron.php.
• 2.4.0 (Major upgrade): Removed: Option to enable or disable mailing. Banners with email addresses to notify are handled. Setting to reset mailing in single banners. Now, if mailing should be repeated, you will have to edit the banner from phpMyAdmin. Added: Order links in lists. The initial state is ordered by ID, as before. By clicking the titles, the other voices can be ordered. Clicking twice inverts the order. This works in all lists. Options to prevent counting and reducing thus a tiny bit of load. A new bunch of demo banners for new installations. Demo banners are locked into database in order to avoid 30% of the questions because of the 'experts' deleting them before trying the product. They can be disabled and modified though. The true experts can delete them after all testing from the database by using phpMyAdmin without side effects. Changes: Phrase for emailing about expiring banners, now also with direct links to the phrases. Demo banners. Our old publisher ID is replaced with the new ones, and old demo banners are updated with the new ones, if found. The functions have been exported to includes/functions_rbs.php. This makes the product code smaller and easier to maintain, and runs faster on sites where caching/acceleration is enabled. Changed Files: all *.php
• 2.4.1: Option Likelihood. This new option adds a weight to banners and allows thus to show one banner more often than another. The default weight is 100%. We also make sure that the final date of the default banners falls into a valid range. Changed files: includes/functions_rbs.php and rbs_stats.php.
• 2.4.2: Workaround for update sequence problems.

Hacks and unsupported add-ons:

• Banner Rotator Widget To CMS
• Rotate banners in-place
• Italian Translation

[N1tr8]

Great job, I'm trying to place the image under control panel but I get to the left under no
sorry my English is very bad for googlel.
I put the code <!--@vbbanners:6@--> the template header below <div id="toplinks" class="toplinks">

[Maxi62]

How does the advertising Visit Counter set to 0?

[shahryar_neo]

Thanks for this very nice hack .

I got a problem very very suddenly in my forums . most of my banners are not shown and I don't why! I checked everything was as same as before . I even re-installed files and import product but it's same !

even I cannot add any new banner . I mean it'll be added in admincp but will not be shown . It's very funny but it's true .

I installed one hack called ITV news some days ago but right after installation it was good ! but now I don't see most of banner . I even disabled this hack but it didn't change anything .

Thanks In Advance for the help .

[shahryar_neo]

I instealled ITV news mod now , but it's the same . many banners don't shown .

[BadgerDog]

Installed on v4.04 with thanks for testing ...

We also use y2ksw's excellent Import External Images mod ... :up:

We have this mod running and it seems to work with for the most part, except some of the placeholder templates don't cause the ads to appear, but most do.

We have discovered a major conflict problem with our member's photo library. We use vBPicGallery and when y2ksw's banner mod is active, the javascipt screen slide show in vBPicGallery seizes up and stops, plus a random pic from a member's library storage seems to cover part of the screen with some kind of cosmetic glitch.

When we disable y2ksw's banner mod, the vbPicGallery slide show operation returns to normal.

Any ideas on how to resolve the conflict?

Thanks for any guidance ... :up:

Regards,
Doug

[theharem]

colour me stupid...... This is the first mod I've tried to upload and for some reason I've totally screwed it up.

If anyone here can help out a newbie to this, please pm me I'm desperate for some tutoring via msn. Thanks

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Maxi62

Yes give it to t while the following template:

ad_showthread_firstpost

But there is a problem with that. It only works if one integrates xxxx ad_thread_first_post_content in the div block.

This works not, It appears no ads:

ad_showthread_firstpost:

<!--@vbbanners:6@-->

This works partly:

ad_showthread_firstpost:

<div id="ad_thread_first_post_content">
<!--@vbbanners:6@-->
</div>

If banners are to be displayed only in certain user groups with Dialog-Options in Rotating Banner System , then won in the first post for all user groups place. So then you have a large gap in the post even though no ads will appear.

How can you prevent it?


And yet another suggestion:
Can not you install, which must be sent a monthly status e-mail with the number of visits, that would be great!

I'm not able to help with style issues. On one site, I have the SHOWTHREAD template modified to show correctly first and last post banners as if they were posts. Maybe this is a useful hint for your designer.

I take note of the feature request, but unless there are very many people asking for this feature, I'll not add it

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Maxi62

How does the advertising Visit Counter set to 0?

With phpmyadmin

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by N1tr8

Great job, I'm trying to place the image under control panel but I get to the left under no
sorry my English is very bad for googlel.
I put the code <!--@vbbanners:6@--> the template header below <div id="toplinks" class="toplinks">

Please see what the Flash Help does and try to get it working on your site. Probably it is already what you want. Then, when you mastered this step, make your changes and additions ...

I'm sorry to stress this question over and over again, but flexibility comes with a cost: testing

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by shahryar_neo

Thanks for this very nice hack .

I got a problem very very suddenly in my forums . most of my banners are not shown and I don't why! I checked everything was as same as before . I even re-installed files and import product but it's same !

even I cannot add any new banner . I mean it'll be added in admincp but will not be shown . It's very funny but it's true .

I installed one hack called ITV news some days ago but right after installation it was good ! but now I don't see most of banner . I even disabled this hack but it didn't change anything .

Thanks In Advance for the help .

Originally Posted by shahryar_neo

I instealled ITV news mod now , but it's the same . many banners don't shown .

If you have a tool which cleans up HTML comments or optimized HTML before output, you may either disable it or change the default placeholder format in the options (e.g. @vbbanners:%d@) and later in your templates (e.g. @vbbanners:0@). However, changing the default placeholders, may show them in your pages if you switch off the product or plugins.