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Geek Advertising Banner system RC1 · **Released**: 04-10-2005

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

Davez · #**242** 05-03-2005, 04:07 PM

Hi anyone !

I just installed this hack , and i got some problems.
If i click on Packages in acp i get this error :

PHP Code:


			
Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.0.0:



Ungueltige SQL-Abfrage: SELECT * FROM GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc

mysql error: Table 'sdtforum.GAB_packages' doesn't exist



mysql error number: 1146



Datum: 03.05.2005 19:04:11

Skript: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/GAB_admin.php?do=displaypackages

Referer: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/index.php?do=nav

if i wanna add a Package , i get :

PHP Code:


			
Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.0.0:



Ungueltige SQL-Abfrage: INSERT INTO GAB_packages

            (title,description,price,currency,duration,frequency,scripts,forumids,ordinal,hits,views) VALUES (

            'test',

            'test2',

            2,

            'EUR',

            0,

            0,

            'forumhome,',

            '9,36,',

            0

            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 '0,

            0

            )' at line 12



mysql error number: 1064



Datum: 03.05.2005 19:06:18

Skript: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/GAB_admin.php

Referer: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/GAB_admin.php?do=addpackage

Someone got an idea to help me ?

Many thanks.

The Geek · #**243** 05-03-2005, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Davez

Hi anyone !

I just installed this hack , and i got some problems.
If i click on Packages in acp i get this error :

PHP Code:


			
Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.0.0:



Ungueltige SQL-Abfrage: SELECT * FROM GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc

mysql error: Table 'sdtforum.GAB_packages' doesn't exist



mysql error number: 1146



Datum: 03.05.2005 19:04:11

Skript: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/GAB_admin.php?do=displaypackages

Referer: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/index.php?do=nav

if i wanna add a Package , i get :

PHP Code:


			
Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.0.0:



Ungueltige SQL-Abfrage: INSERT INTO GAB_packages

            (title,description,price,currency,duration,frequency,scripts,forumids,ordinal,hits,views) VALUES (

            'test',

            'test2',

            2,

            'EUR',

            0,

            0,

            'forumhome,',

            '9,36,',

            0

            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 '0,

            0

            )' at line 12



mysql error number: 1064



Datum: 03.05.2005 19:06:18

Skript: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/GAB_admin.php

Referer: http://www.xxx.com/admincp/GAB_admin.php?do=addpackage

Someone got an idea to help me ?

Many thanks.

packages are not implimented yet - just ignore for now

fogua · #**244** 05-04-2005, 01:14 PM

Can you look at the stats of each banner?
Can I add more banner zones? like at the bottom?

CosmicBlend · #**245** 05-04-2005, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fogua

Can you look at the stats of each banner?
Can I add more banner zones? like at the bottom?

you should be able to add the banner varible in your footer template also

fogua · #**246** 05-04-2005, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CosmicBlend

you should be able to add the banner varible in your footer template also

And the zone will appear on the ADM I assume

and do youn now If I will be able to llok at stats something like this

fogua · #**247** 05-05-2005, 01:12 PM

I have a Problem
I upload the files at their location and

I allready install it and shows :

File Changes complete.
All files I changed are in /Beta 2.0. You will need to copy those over to their forum locations once you are satisfied they are changed correctly.
Completed Install!

When I go look up those files I couldnt find them
And on the admin cpanel can find the option

The Geek · #**248** 05-05-2005, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fogua

I have a Problem
I upload the files at their location and

I allready install it and shows :

File Changes complete.
All files I changed are in /Beta 2.0. You will need to copy those over to their forum locations once you are satisfied they are changed correctly.
Completed Install!

When I go look up those files I couldnt find them
And on the admin cpanel can find the option

look in your gish folder

fogua · #**249** 05-05-2005, 04:17 PM

Ok I fond them So I put the index.php in the admincp folder and de global.php on the buletin root.
When I try to get inside de admin y pops this error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '=' in /homepages/44/d125171713/htdocs/forum/admincp/index.php on line 581

fogua · #**250** 05-05-2005, 05:04 PM

I think I found the problem
On the ADMINCP folder
The Index.php file

On the line 581

...........

= false;
// === GAB ===

................

I just tipe
$printhr = false;

............

And it works Does this change was right

Ok now when I save on the configure option happen this.

The Geek · #**251** 05-05-2005, 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fogua

I think I found the problem
On the ADMINCP folder
The Index.php file

On the line 581

...........

= false;
// === GAB ===

................

I just tipe
$printhr = false;

............

And it works Does this change was right

Ok now when I save on the configure option happen this.

yea - no ads are getting pulled because you have no ads yet

venomx · #**252** 05-05-2005, 06:08 PM

Maybe this needs a default ad for each ad type so when the ads run out something is shown?

fogua · #**253** 05-05-2005, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Geek

yea - no ads are getting pulled because you have no ads yet

in what folder should I put the adds?

The Geek · #**254** 05-05-2005, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fogua

in what folder should I put the adds?

the gab folder... then you need to add them via the admincp

fogua · #**255** 05-05-2005, 08:14 PM

I have a problem
The install didnt creat the vb_GAB_packages table at the database

vb_GAB_packages' doesn't exist

I want to creat but dont know the values for

Ordinal
Title
Id
Asc

The Geek · #**256** 05-05-2005, 08:26 PM

known issue - that side of things isnt implemented yet. In fact - Its being removed from this hack all together.
I am working to make the GAB hack stand alone then a seperate system to pull GAB and GAL togehter in a user module.

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