phpAdsNew Banner Ads integration (advertisements, classified ads, Adsense, etc.)

OpenAds / phpAdsNew Integration 1.0.4 for vBulletin 3.[56].x
2006-06-08 by mip

Integrates the OpenAds / phpAdsNew ads system by introducing a new template tag <ad ... />.
You can even deliver your Adsense stuff via phpAdsNew using HTML banners.

The features of phpAdsNew combined with the power of vBulletin's templating system gives you the possibility to place ads for specific user groups, forums, and keywords.

PREREQUISITES:
This plugin requires a working installation (local or remote) of a recent version ofOpenAds / phpAdsNew (free software released under the GPL).
When using OpenAds, replace phpAdsNew in this documentation with OpenAds (phpAdsNew is just the predecessor of OpenAds).

INSTALLATION:
When having a previous version of this product installed, see section UPGRADE instead.

Install product "phpadsnew-1.0.4.xml".
Set phpAdsNew path in Server Settings and Optimization Options to point to either your local phpAdsNew installation or a remote server (using XML-RPC).
It is strongly recommended to set $phpAds_config['compatibility_mode'] = true; in phpAdsNew config file, to prevent problems when phpAdsNew uses a database different from the one used by your vBulletin board.

When using XML-RPC, make sure to have lib-xmlrpc-class.inc.php and lib-xmlrpc.inc.php copied from phpAdsNew misc/samples/xmlrpc/php/ to your forum's includes/ directory (not necessary when using a local phpAdsNew installation).

Read the NOTES section below.

Click INSTALL in this thread to mark product as "installed" and receive notifications when a new version comes out.

UPGRADE:

• 1.0.3 --> 1.0.4
  1. Import product as usual, with "Allow Overwrite" set to Yes.
• 1.0.2 --> 1.0.3
  Upgrading is recommended, as this is a bugfix release.
  
  1. Import product as usual, with "Allow Overwrite" set to Yes.
     
  2. Recompile any templates where you experienced problems with the <ad .../> tag (notably those where this tag is used repeatedly on a line).
     
• 1.0.1 --> 1.0.2
  
  1. Import product as usual, with "Allow Overwrite" set to Yes.
     
  2. Set $phpAds_config['compatibility_mode'] = true; in phpAdsNew config file.
     
• 1.0 --> 1.0.1
  There's basically no need to upgrade, as the changes don't affect a working installation, but I recommend to do so, to ease possible upgrades in the future.
  1. Import product as usual, with "Allow Overwrite" set to Yes.
  2. Alter the path to phpAdsNew in vBulletin Server Settings and Optimization Options to point to your phpAdsNew installation.
     As opposed to version 1.0 of this product, a local path is not relative to the DOCUMENT_ROOT.

USAGE:
Use the newly introduced <ad ... /> tag in your templates.
The syntax is similar to phpAdsNew's view_raw() function call - the tag understands what, clientid, target, source, and withtext as arguments.

Please make yourself familiar with phpAdsNew prior to using this product. You can't expect this product to work, if you didn't check if your phpAdsNew is delivering your banners cleanly.

Examples:

• Get banner using keywords:
  <ad what="foo|bar" />
• Get banner for guest usergroup (in this case, "ug1" must be set as a keyword in phpADsNew, see 2nd screenshot):
  <ad what="ug$bbuserinfo['usergroupid']" />
  (same technique can be applied to deliver forum-specific ads)
• Similar invocation using template conditionals:
  <if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid']==1"><ad what="" /></if>

NOTES:

1. Always use the latest stable version of phpAdsNew.
   Old versions had bugs and some even had severe security issues - I'll give no support for installations with an outdated phpAdsNew.
   At the time of writing, latest version is 2.0.8.
2. Templates which make use of the ad-tag might need to get recompiled after product change.
3. Recommendations for heavy-duty servers: Move the plugin code to files; try to avoid using xml-rpc or cache xml-rpc requests (e.g. with memcache).
4. Have an eye on current phpAdsNew security issues
5. This product comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
6. Support is provided at will.
   Don't expect help if you haven't read instructions or phpAdsNew manual, if you're using non-standard vBulletin software or if your problem descriptions are useless.

PS:
This plugin is donationware - it helps you to make some money, so please be fair and honor my work with an adequate pecuniary donation.
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[Rukas]

Is it possible to do an or statement? Zone 1 or zone 2 for example? So it randomly picks one or the other?

[Pulsorock]

Originally Posted by Olney

Does this work with Max Media Manager the same???

I have the same question. I use MaxMedia Manager 0.1.x (fork of phpAdsNew) and would like to try this plugin, but I wan't to know that it works with MMM. Thanks....

[cmiller1014]

This sounds like exactly what I need.

Question for you though. I already use phpadsnew and I use the JS call to pull the banners. Is it possible with this mod to display banners based on keywords found on the page the user is viewing?

For example, if they are reading a thread about hamburgers, can I have it display ads from my advertisers who have "hamburger" as a keyword in phpadsnew?

Thanks!

[Omranic]

after working with this product I discovered some erors ocured
1st one is what I have written in the past post
2nd Is there is a conflict between this & secret admire
3rd is that there is a conflict bet. this & mkportal

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /hsphere/local/home/phpkd/phpkd.com/mkportal/include/VB/vb_driverf.php on line 57

[Omranic]

& if I need to edit any mkportal settings It displays

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /hsphere/local/home/phpkd/phpkd.com/mkportal/include/VB/vb_driverf.php on line 57

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hsphere/local/home/phpkd/phpkd.com/vb/includes/class_core.php:2957) in /hsphere/local/home/phpkd/phpkd.com/mkportal/admin/ad_blocks.php on line 349

knowing that when I remove any codes related to phpadsnew integreted product from my templates every thing back to normal

[shunx91]

Hi Guys,

I got this message when I tried to modify my templates:

Warning: view_ad(/home/web/clubwrx.net/public_html/forums/includes/lib-xmlrpc-class.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 68

Can someone please help me out? I tried to upload those two files in the directory but I got a "permission denied" message.

[kahmeal]

Originally Posted by Rukas

Ive installed this and it seems to have broken member.php, i get the following error:


Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /member.php(654) : eval()'d code on line 197

http://www.streethop.com/forum/member.php?u=3

Same problem here... I get a member.php(652) : eval()'d code on line 42 and also line 99. Any ideas?

[speedway]

Excellent job! Works well. Thanks for the addition, it saved me a lot of work considering my old phpadsnew solutions required code modificiations!

Oh, and BTW - even though I have this marked as "installed", I never received any notification that the version number had changed....

Cheers
Bruce

[Rukas]

Originally Posted by kahmeal

Same problem here... I get a member.php(652) : eval()'d code on line 42 and also line 99. Any ideas?

Have you managed to fix it yet?

[Sinister21]

Originally Posted by Sinister21

Is there a way to install this on VB 3.0.6? if not, is there something similar I can use to integrate Phpadsnew to 3.0.6?

I've installed this hack..
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=phpadnews

but it will not utilize the invocation codes from phpadsnew.

I need to have forum specific ads served accordingly.

Anyhelp is appreciated!

thanks guys!

^^^ Anyone?? :ermm: