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]

Now that GAL 4 is ending RC, Im picking GAB back up to finish its development.


As you are area aware (if you have been following the thread), I am going to decouple the user management side of GAB from the core system in order to make a stand alone banner system. Once that goes gold, I will then release a new hack that will allow users to purchase and manage their own GAL entries and/or GAB entries.

Anyhoo.... Saying that... I was hoping to include adsense support. Can anyone give me some details of what is required to spit out google adsense? Is it just a couple of settings? Are they static? Would a template sufice?

Thanks all.

[SEO Report]

I was hoping to include adsense support. Can anyone give me some details of what is required to spit out google adsense? Is it just a couple of settings? Are they static? Would a template sufice?

Adsense is basically a "set and forget" system that consists of some html code dynamically served by google. If you allow text based banners, then you already support Adsense.

But tracking clicks and impressions is a different story though, you might well be able to track impressions, but sometimes the ad is just a PSA, which makes impressions inaccurate IMO.

Having said that, not being able to track adsense is not a big deal IMO, since google already offer such feature in Adsense CP.

-k

[venomx]

I dont think you can track the clicks for adsense or any other HTML ad...
I have a banner exchange I run and if I put an HTML ad in I can only track the impressions. I have had no problem with this.

I run phpAdsnew on a few sites and it says it can edit the HTML ads code to track clciks, not sure if it works because i am scared to test it hehe

[LEAD_WEIGHT]

Originally Posted by venomx

I dont think you can track the clicks for adsense or any other HTML ad...
I have a banner exchange I run and if I put an HTML ad in I can only track the impressions. I have had no problem with this.

I run phpAdsnew on a few sites and it says it can edit the HTML ads code to track clciks, not sure if it works because i am scared to test it hehe

Just goto your adsense login page and look, even this pricey one does not have it.

http://www.keyconcept.org/vbulletin-adsense-revenue-sharing-hack-mod/

[uReside.com]

anxiously awaiting

[KAC]

I keep getting "GAS_settings_saved" phrase missing when I try to edit settings. I am also getting DB errors when trying to add packages. I used the installer included even though the topic says there is not one. So what gives

[The Geek]

read the thread - the packages are not implimented yet - thats why you are getting the package error and the GAS_settings_saved phrase missing is a known issue - all be it a mionor one.

Thanks

[KAC]

So what should I do to make it work? I would like to use both your hacks as they are exactly what I am looking for.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by KAC

So what should I do to make it work? I would like to use both your hacks as they are exactly what I am looking for.

It will work fine - just dont use the packages - thats a user interface option not needed for the banners to work.

[Visions]

I still cant get it to work. I try to upload banners but i still see nothing on the entire site.

[FD929]

Geek - love your work. I admin 2 sites and have some of your hacks on both.

Anyways, found a bug and it's been mentioned in the thread, but not exactly addressed. Here's the code.

Step by step

step 200
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in admincp/index.php, replace:

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$printhr = false;
	if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))
	{

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with:

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	 = false;
	// === GAB  ===
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_settings'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=settings');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_display_ads'], 'GAB_admin.php');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_add_ad'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=add');
    construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_display_packages'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=displaypackages');
    construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_add_package'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=addpackage');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_display_frequency'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=displayfrequency');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_add_frequency'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=addfrequency');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_test'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=test');
	construct_nav_group($vbphrase['GAB_CP']);
	$printhr = true;
	$printhr = false;
	// === GAB ===
    $printhr = false;
	if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))
	{

Seems that the initial '$printhr = false' is not being completely deleted or it's just a typo in the manual instructions.

[FD929]

Originally Posted by FD929

Geek - love your work. I admin 2 sites and have some of your hacks on both.

Anyways, found a bug and it's been mentioned in the thread, but not exactly addressed. Here's the code.

Step by step

step 200
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

in admincp/index.php, replace:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$printhr = false;
	if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))
	{

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

with:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	 = false;
	// === GAB  ===
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_settings'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=settings');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_display_ads'], 'GAB_admin.php');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_add_ad'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=add');
    construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_display_packages'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=displaypackages');
    construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_add_package'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=addpackage');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_display_frequency'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=displayfrequency');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_add_frequency'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=addfrequency');
	construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAB_test'], 'GAB_admin.php?do=test');
	construct_nav_group($vbphrase['GAB_CP']);
	$printhr = true;
	$printhr = false;
	// === GAB ===
    $printhr = false;
	if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))
	{

Seems that the initial '$printhr = false' is not being completely deleted or it's just a typo in the manual instructions.

Well I've read most of the thread now. Disregard my previous post, although I still don't see that it was mentioned that it was written that way in the manual install instructions.

Anxiously awaiting the new release!

[fogua]

On the admin shows de banner with no problem
On the forum wont show it.

When I run the test shows this

[fogua]

Any one??????

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by fogua

Any one??????

That test is saying that
You dont have a valid script to test (ie there is no banner specified for that script)

Make sure you have valid scripts ticked in the settings and a banner that is also ticked for those scripts