Forum Home Enhancements - SponsorIt

Due to the pricing and yearly fee of vBulletin I am no longer creating mods for vBulletin, instead I have stepped out of the shadow of vBulletin to create my own stand alone mods. I wish to thank everyone who downloaded and installed my mods but as of now with not being able to afford hosting and vBulletin, I decided to drop vBulletin so hopes of me returning would only happen if my newest venture brings me a nice profit.

Thank you all again
Steve

[Mythotical]

Ok I have resolved the issue of it not displaying, seems the settings I set forth canceled each other out or something, I might have gotten the settings mixed up.

Doing the following currently:
- Adding own settings page outside of vbsettings
- Adding image upload option instead of straight file system use
- Adding width/height option upon adding new sponsor
- Collapsible sponsor box
- Redoing redirect options and page

So far so good, still got a few things left to do to finish the revamp of the current mod then on to adding the above features.

Christi: Thanks, I appreciate the offer, once I release it here, if you can test it to the extreme and post up all errors/bugs then that will be alot of help.

[christi78]

as soon as you post the code I will test it and test it some more to make sure everything is in order. I run on 3.6.8 but also have a board on 3.6.4 which is upgrading to 3.7 soon.

[inciarco]

I'll Test the New Update too on my Test Forum, that has vB 3.6.7 PL1, as soon as you Publish the Update, and I'll share with you the Results!! :up:

My Best Regards!!

[Mythotical]

Great, my concern is 3.7

[Mythotical]

Well I ran into a problem getting the image upload option to work properly, currently working on fixing it. Trying to make it have option for using file system for sponsor images or database. Downfall to that is if you switch between the 2 after having images already set in say database, they won't be transferred to file system.

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by Steve M

Well I ran into a problem getting the image upload option to work properly, currently working on fixing it. Trying to make it have option for using file system for sponsor images or database. Downfall to that is if you switch between the 2 after having images already set in say database, they won't be transferred to file system.

In a Mod made by Cybernetec (Flash-Image Banner Rotator), thas Hack works only with Files Uploaded in the Database, and works Fine (I have it with almost 200 Banners of 50Kb each and works really good and Fast)!!

Cyb - Flash-Image Banner Rotator
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131254

I think Storing the Banners in the DataBase is a Good Option, but if you can Work Both Options, for Very Very Large Banners this could Help the Database Backup to be Less Large and Faster to Create, (won't be my Case, I prefer to use Light Banners so that they can Load Fast)!!

I think you should Release your First Next Update with the Database Storage Option, and in your Second Next Update Provide the Other Option (to Store Files in a Folder of the Server with 777 Permissions)!!

My Best Regards!!

[christi78]

Going to nominate this for MOTH as soon as the new version is out. even though I got the current version work

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by christi78

Going to nominate this for MOTH as soon as the new version is out. even though I got the current version work

Me Too!! :up:

[inciarco]

OOPS My Bad!! I just remembered that Cybernetec's Mod uses Links to Uploaded Images instead of Uploading them to the Database, so it's more like the way you're using it right now, so it's functional to still using the sponsors Folder to store the Files and to FTP them; if you can add the option to upload images from the Computer would be Great!!

I also noticed that there's a Bug in the Current Image, because my Forums are located in zzz.com/foros and the image displayed points to zzz.com/sponsors/image.gif so it doesn't point to the right location of it.

Another Bug: The URL has to be included without the "http://", because otherwise that text is duplicated at the beginning of the Link and when opening causes that Error.

Perhaps you can consider providing other Locations to place the Sponsors like also Above the Navbar!!

Also would be great to be able to see the Sponsors in other selected Forums, and if desired in the threads inside them(numbers of forums separated by commas), so that sponsors can be displayed in those forums and as optional could be to see them on the threads, so that sponsors are fully covered in the selected forums additionally to the Main Page)!! Read the Next Phrase because it adds some ideas that apply to this Global option but to each sponsor, and I think that other option would be more than Great!!

For other future Uploads you can consider to add a field to each sponsor so that the user can include the list of the number of the forums to display the sponsor, so that some sponsors could be displayed in selected forums. Other additional yes/no option could be provided to choose if sponsor should be displayed in Main Page. Other additional yes/no option could be provided to choose if sponsor should be displayed in the Theads. So that way you have complete control on where each sponsor will be displayed and also if any sponsor will be displayed in the Threads, so the user can personalize this according to the sponsor needs or the specific forums and pages the sponsor would like to be displayed!! (that would be GUAU S?per Great!! :up

If you make box collapsible would be good to specify wich usergroups users can collapse the sponsors' Box; would be nice too to have a query to set the collapsed option to "No" and force that way any desired time to be shown; there's a Mod called "Did you know ...?" that has that option with the Tips Box; would be great that the query can be executed via Admin Control Panel with a Link provided by you!!

My Best Regards!!

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by christi78

My only issue is that it is not displying any place I ask it to. I have even turned off the plugin and manually edited forumhome, navbar and other and still get nothing to display the admin side works fine and I have no SQL errors so I am at a loss.

Perhaps you should check in Admin Control Panel -> vBulletin Options -> TFW Sponsors - > that the Option "Enable/Disabled TFW Sponsors" is set to "Yes"; I noticed that by Default is set to "No"!!

Other thing could be that you didn't uploaded some File or Folder, so would be good to upload them again!!

I've tested it in vB 3.6.7!!

My Best Regards!!