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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by libertate

What would make the next release come out faster? :devious:

me feeling better

I just had an operation the other day so Im a little under the weather. Saying that I made some decnet progress on it yesterday.
I may be able to have the next Beta sometime tomorrow which means I will be left with 1 more beta before it goes to RC

[LEAD_WEIGHT]

They fixed u what do we call u now. Now that u turned to a girl or is it the other way :ermm:

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by LEAD_WEIGHT

They fixed u what do we call u now. Now that u turned to a girl or is it the other way :ermm:

:speechless:

It was a freaking hernia - not a gender change!

[artonex]

Hey The Geek this is a very nice hack thanks for coding it, much better than phpadsnew

I will install it once my new skin is coded

[libertate]

Originally Posted by The Geek

me feeling better
I just had an operation the other day so Im a little under the weather.

Wish you the best.

Maybe I can ship a laptop with a cell phone Internet uplink to the hospital? Wait, they won't let cell phones in. how about a satellite uplink?

:ermm: Ok, ok. Get better first. :laugh:

[LEAD_WEIGHT]

Originally Posted by The Geek

:speechless:

It was a freaking hernia - not a gender change!

Just pulling your leg, or do u pull your third leg :banana: to hard. :laugh:

Idle hands u know. Know keep your focus on those releases not on releasing anything else ok :nervous:

[CosmicBlend]

where are the click stats recorded to, how would you pull up such info for users if they would like to see it. Is this feature not implemented yet?

[djjeffa]

Great Hack but i have a problem
when I try to ad a add I get

Warning: copy(./gab/top.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/GAB_admin.php on line 716

I read some of the past post but none have helped me.

[The Geek]

MAke sure that you have a folder called gab in your forum directory (chmodded to 0777)

Cosmic - not implimented yet. Its coming.

[djjeffa]

Originally Posted by The Geek

MAke sure that you have a folder called gab in your forum directory (chmodded to 0777)

Cosmic - not implimented yet. Its coming.

ok I had the folder spelled Gab but it needed to be gab lol
next problem:

Could not find GAB_setting_saved

and then I tested and got this:

Problem No script was passed therefore no ad can be pulled.

[The Geek]

the first porblem is just with a phrase. Dont sweat it.

Second is in regards to the settings for the test. Make sure you pass a valid script that has ads assigned to it.

[Visions]

Originally Posted by The Geek

the first porblem is just with a phrase. Dont sweat it.

Second is in regards to the settings for the test. Make sure you pass a valid script that has ads assigned to it.

I am having the same problem
I have created and saved an ad but I cannot get it to show..i have the same problem as metioned above also.
What exactly do you mean by pass a valid script? Very inexperienced here. Please give me the Gab for dummies on this. Thanks

[geezzaa]

I got a new problem.
After signing up with an affilliate and entering the url
www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=xxx&id=xxxx when you hit save and check it back the link has changed to www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=xxx&id=xxx which causes an error when you click on the banner.
Any ideas ??

[The Geek]

Geezza - edit GAB_admin.php and change this:

PHP Code:

}elseif($action == 'savead'){

    globalize($_POST,array(
        'id'=> INT,
        'title' => STR_NOHTML,
        'startdate',
        'enddate',
        'scripts',
        'forumid',
        'image'=>STR_NOHTML,
        'url'=>STR_NOHTML, 


to

PHP Code:

}elseif($action == 'savead'){

    globalize($_POST,array(
        'id'=> INT,
        'title' => STR_NOHTML,
        'startdate',
        'enddate',
        'scripts',
        'forumid',
        'image'=>STR_NOHTML,
        'url'=>STR, 


Notice its just the last line that changed (the rest was to give you a bearing

visions - in your settings, you must have a set of scripts ticked. These are the 'valid' scripts that ads can appear on.
Then on each ad, one or more valid scripts must be ticked (these are the scripts that the ad will appear on).
When you click test in the admincp, you must choose a script that has an add on it.
For example, if I only have scripts on forumdisplay but I test showthread - then no valid script is selected and no ad will appear.

Hope this helps

[geezzaa]

Thanks geek, that sorted it
Keep me informed for the next update