Miscellaneous Hacks - Rotating Banner System

With the Rotating Banner System software, you may publish literally anywhere standard banners and advertising, with no restriction but your imagination. Unlike many other products, it allows to show an unlimited amount of banners and advertising, which are randomly shown at the places you choose, and you may refer generically to an Ad by using specific placeholders.

Also the management is straight-forward and simple to use. Forum administrators with maintenance rights may add, edit and delete records from the Administration Control Panel (ACP), one of each representing a banner. After saving the new banner settings, they are immediately visible at your board.

Compatibility: from vBulletin 3.6.5 onwards

By the way, I do also install the hack on your boards, but since I am very, very busy, it may take some time (weeks) until it gets done.


Tutorials:

• How-to create my first banner (Flash).

Updates:

• 2.0.1: Simple click tracker added, HTML help included.
• 2.0.3: Small bug fixes; additional banner list, navigation bar, E-Mail field for banner event notifications and automatic save on scroll setting; absolute URL to rbs_banner.php in order to allow click tracking on non-standard pages; supported languages: English, Italian; Help file clean-up.
• 2.0.5: Small bug fixes; additional details in banner list; email notification for epired banners.
• 2.0.6: vbCMS compatibility bug fix; additional banner lists.
• 2.0.7: Usergroups filter: now it is possible to define a list of usergroups which may show a banner; additional vbCMS compatibility bug fix.
• 2.0.8: Various fixes and most of all, inclusion of the right files: admin_rbs.php, cpnav_rbs.xml
• 2.0.9: Extra comma fix in new record creation.
• 2.1.0: Fix for an occasional banner type selection bug, when the sample banners have been deleted or disabled.
• 2.2.0 (Major upgrade): Up to 10 different banner locations. Requires changes to your existing placeholders in your templates, since a more generic format has been chosen. If you don't need more than 2 different locations, you don't need to upgrade. Changed files: rbs_banner.php, admin_rbs.php
• 2.2.1: Minor bug fix in files: admin_rbs_h_banner_list.php, admin_rbs_v_banner_list.php
• 2.2.1: Hotfix for Max Clicks saving bug.
• 2.2.2: More listings and less files. PDF Help. Separate Italian add-ons and help. Duplicate button.
• 2.2.3: Minor bug fixes. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.2.4: Flash Banner support (beta). Changed files: product-rbs.xml, rbs_wrapper.swf, admin_rbs.php, English Help.
• 2.2.5: Hotfix for vBulletin 4.0.2 compatibility bug.
• 2.2.6: Checking for installed Flash Wrapper rbs_wrapper.swf; A few English FAQ; Help files. Changed files: product-rbs.xml
• 2.3.0 (Major upgrade): New modules: Delete Expired Banners, Disable Expired Banners; Detail Banner Statistics with unique access key for your customers; Updated help; Changed files: all.
• 2.3.1: Hotfix for missing field in rbs_hist table. Changed files: none, just update product.
• 2.3.2: Added: Unsupported option for setting any number of available positions between 1 and big bang. Fixed: Small bug and speed issues. Removed: Italian translation. Italians may now request support at www.vbulletin.it. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.3: Fix: Copy selected forum ID's during banner duplication. Changed: start and end hours for new banners are set to 0:00 and 23:59 respectively. Changed files: admin_rbs.php.
• 2.3.4: Option: Send Mail Before. This option allows to schedule expiring banners differently. New variables for emails: $rbs_enddate: This variable holds the formatted banner ending date and time based on the standard formats for date and time in vBulletin settings; $rbs_name: This variable holds the banner name. EMail Notifications option description: Added direct links to the email phrases for quick changes. Changed files: rbs_mail_cron.php.
• 2.4.0 (Major upgrade): Removed: Option to enable or disable mailing. Banners with email addresses to notify are handled. Setting to reset mailing in single banners. Now, if mailing should be repeated, you will have to edit the banner from phpMyAdmin. Added: Order links in lists. The initial state is ordered by ID, as before. By clicking the titles, the other voices can be ordered. Clicking twice inverts the order. This works in all lists. Options to prevent counting and reducing thus a tiny bit of load. A new bunch of demo banners for new installations. Demo banners are locked into database in order to avoid 30% of the questions because of the 'experts' deleting them before trying the product. They can be disabled and modified though. The true experts can delete them after all testing from the database by using phpMyAdmin without side effects. Changes: Phrase for emailing about expiring banners, now also with direct links to the phrases. Demo banners. Our old publisher ID is replaced with the new ones, and old demo banners are updated with the new ones, if found. The functions have been exported to includes/functions_rbs.php. This makes the product code smaller and easier to maintain, and runs faster on sites where caching/acceleration is enabled. Changed Files: all *.php
• 2.4.1: Option Likelihood. This new option adds a weight to banners and allows thus to show one banner more often than another. The default weight is 100%. We also make sure that the final date of the default banners falls into a valid range. Changed files: includes/functions_rbs.php and rbs_stats.php.
• 2.4.2: Workaround for update sequence problems.

Hacks and unsupported add-ons:

• Banner Rotator Widget To CMS
• Rotate banners in-place
• Italian Translation

[DonLKSAB]

Actually i have the Classifieds to.
And according to the developer it shoud work. The standard VB banners work fine.
Everything from the header and so on is used in Photopost.

If not.
Doers anyone know of a simple random banner mod? I need one banner with like 6 random images...

[Videx]

Originally Posted by DonLKSAB

The standard VB banners work fine.

Oh, sorry I missed that. You may want to start over again or at least link to your last post so we don't have to go digging for it.

Obvious question if a standard banner works: What type of banners are you trying that don't work? Flash or something? And can we assume when you say "standard banners work" you also mean RBS works fine outside Photopost? If not you need to get that fixed first. Make sure there's no compatibility problems with other mods (e.g. VBAdvanced).

[DonLKSAB]

I have no banners what so ever from RBS in Photopost.
But RBS is working fine in my form and CMS.
However, If you look at the photopost guys website he is using the VB adverticement stuff and that works for him.
So its not only using the vb styles.
Thats why i hope it would be possible to get RBS working in Photopost without a big effort.

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

<table>
<tr>
<td style="min-width:XXXpx">@vbbanners:0@</td><td style="min-width:XXXpx">@vbbanners:0@</td>
</tr>
</table>

Then just set "XXX" to whatever minimum width you want the banners to be. You can also add additional styling such as "max-width", or "width", then possibly "padding" etc. to get the exact look and spacing you want.

OK I ended up with this code however when I reduce the size of my browser the banners dont adjust themself to the size of the foum so they overlap the edge of the forum. Any idea what I need to add to have the banners resize as I reduce the size of the browser window

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Support Our Sponsors</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<table align="center" style="height: 60px; width: 640px;" summary="On your next purchage concider choosing our Sponsors">
			<caption dir="rtl" style="text-align: justify;">
				<cite><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong style=""><a href="http://www.mysite.com/forums/vendor/list-by-alpha" style="" target="_self">Support Our Sponsors</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://www.mysire.com/forums/vendor/register" style="" target="_self">Become a Sponsor</a></strong></span></span></cite></caption>
			<tbody>
				<tr>
					<td style="min-width: 460px; text-align: center;">
						@vbbanners:0@&nbsp;</td>
					<td style="min-width: 460px; text-align: center;">
						@vbbanners:0@</td>
				</tr>
			</tbody>
		</table>
		<p style="text-align: center;">
			
	</body>
</html>

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by DonLKSAB

I have no banners what so ever from RBS in Photopost.
But RBS is working fine in my form and CMS.
However, If you look at the photopost guys website he is using the VB adverticement stuff and that works for him.
So its not only using the vb styles.
Thats why i hope it would be possible to get RBS working in Photopost without a big effort.

Yes that is my exact same problem.. I have photopost intergration and its enheriting the headers and footer from VB except the banners from RBS wont display only shows this @vbbanners:0@ where the banner should be

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by DonLKSAB

So. Anyone solved the Photopost issue?
I desperatly need it and are willing to pay for a solution.
y2ksw any chanse i could pay you to have a look at it?

I fear this would become a pretty complicated hack, also from what I have read right now about photopost. Most probably it would become a source code modification in order to render the banners.

If however "other" banners work, try to use the unsupported iframe solution, which would enable you to show at least the banners as if they were working ... please see here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=989

This is however not a true banner rotating solution and you will also have to do some coding.

If you want me to do this, please take in account that I probably will not have time until mid August this year.

[DonLKSAB]

And it works!
Thanks y2kw!

[y2ksw]

It's always nice to hear that something works

[bada_bing]

I have an issue using when adding the banner code to the Ad Location Templates-ad_navbar_below the banners show up fine except in the wrong location. If I click on a thread the banner is located below the thread title and not under the navbar.

It looks like this

--------------Navbar----------------------
--------------Thread Title--------------
--------------Banner---------------------

I want this

--------------Navbar----------------------
--------------Banner---------------------
--------------Thread Title--------------

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

I have an issue using when adding the banner code to the Ad Location Templates-ad_navbar_below the banners show up fine except in the wrong location. If I click on a thread the banner is located below the thread title and not under the navbar.

It looks like this

--------------Navbar----------------------
--------------Thread Title--------------
--------------Banner---------------------

I want this

--------------Navbar----------------------
--------------Banner---------------------
--------------Thread Title--------------

Most probably you will have to modify the header template directly instead of the ad_* templates.