Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[aztecboi2003]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

First reply is of interest to anyone having problems with the same advertisement showing up multiple times!



Depends which template its in. Open that template and look for multiple instances of $x_advertisement in the template. That should be included only once, unless you're using automatic template edits in which case it shouldn't be included at all.

Am I actually searching for $x_advertisement because I can't seem to find that phrase anywhere. And I have looked through all the templates.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by aztecboi2003

Am I actually searching for $x_advertisement because I can't seem to find that phrase anywhere. And I have looked through all the templates.

Hi sorry, that's $x_advertisement where x is the name of the template. So if its the header, search for $header_advertisement, etc.

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Edit the footer template and paste your analytics code at the bottom. Simple as that.

So this is the main footer template within each style of the footer template within the AdManagement system, adn if within the Ads system should one use a | deliminator between the last banner and the Analytics code?

Last Q, if one wished to remove completely the $vbphrase[adintegrate_remove_ads] phrase should one delete the phrase or just enter a null translation value?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by tekguru

So this is the main footer template within each style of the footer template within the AdManagement system, adn if within the Ads system should one use a | deliminator between the last banner and the Analytics code?

Last Q, if one wished to remove completely the $vbphrase[adintegrate_remove_ads] phrase should one delete the phrase or just enter a null translation value?

1) No, it's the standard vBulletin footer template, nothing to do with the modification. It has...

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
	// Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
	vBulletin_init();
//-->
</script>

... at the bottom if you're not sure you're in the right place. Just paste the Analytics code at the bottom and save.

2) Translate it to a single space.

[aztecboi2003]

okay I looked in my big red style, in the advertisement_header. This is the code there

PHP Code:

<div>
            <div id="header_adcode">
                $header_adcode
            </div>
            <if condition="$header_adcode != ''">
                <div class="smallfont">
                                    </div>
            </if>
        </div> 


Is that correct? Am I in the right place? Or should I be in the advertisement_leftcolumn as it shows up on the left hand side of this style?

[tekguru]

Cheers RT got you - makes sense.

Another query, on the conditionals is it possible to set it so that one ad in a rotating sequence only displays for certain months?

I have an advertiser that only has his banners running every other even numbered month, i.e Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec.....

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Cheers RT got you - makes sense.

Another query, on the conditionals is it possible to set it so that one ad in a rotating sequence only displays for certain months?

I have an advertiser that only has his banners running every other even numbered month, i.e Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec.....

AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Add new plugin

Product: vB Ad Management
Hook location: global_start
Title: Month conditional
Execution order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:

$adintegrate_month = date('F', TIMENOW);

Plugin is active? Yes

Save the plugin. Now you can use this conditional in your adcode:

<if condition="in_array($GLOBALS[adintegrate_month], array(February, April, June, August, October, December))">
Ad stuff goes here
</if>

You can change the list of valid months as you wish, of course.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Because adding AdminCP options - especially more complex ones - is not efficient. I'm sorry you do not like the new method but it will not be changed back. You must use template conditionals for the link if you only want some usergroups to see it.

Sorry, this is backwards. Remember the Times where the PlugIn Function to vBulletin was new and why ?

[aztecboi2003]

Here's a screenshot of the problem. Perhaps it's a conflict with the nav bar? As it's above and below my nav bar.

[neverstop]

Originally Posted by neverstop

Hi,

I am having trouble with the ajax rotator. I have an iframe adcode from an advertiser. When the ad roatates it is adding a slash to the iframe src url. For example:

<div class="alt2"><iframe src="http://www.domain.com/aff.html" background="#F5F5FF" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="625" scrolling="no" width="125"></iframe></div>|<div class="alt2"><iframe src="http://www.domain.com/aff.html" background="#F5F5FF" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="625" scrolling="no" width="125"></iframe></div>

When the ajax refreshes the block I get a 404 in the iframe as the url is now "/http://www.domain.com/aff.html" (notice the slash before http).

Any way to solve this?

Cheers,
Ian

Originally Posted by neverstop

Hi,

That is the exact code (except I am editting out the domain name). I get a 404 message that says exactly:
The requested URL /"http://www.domain.com/aff.html" was not found on this server.

(FYI in the admincp: The requested URL /admincp/"http://www.domain.com/aff.html" was not found on this server.)

This is in a custom adcode block. On the initial pageload it works fine, but when the ajax refreshes the block I get the 404.

Cheers,
Ian

Have you had a chance to look into this one (the leading slash on an iframe url when the ajax refreshes)?