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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[dc1pop]

Works great on my vb 3.5.3 board!

Thanks

Saves all the Java code i was using!!

[Trana]

Two questions...

Does anyone know of an invocation code or something that will display ALL of the banners (either all or all from a campaign)? Sort of like a "Sponsored By" page....

Does anyone know of a way to display banners as thumbnails? I.E. I'd like to dynamically resize them to fit in certain areas of my board.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!

[The M.I.P.]

Originally Posted by nexus851

How the hell do u uninstall this???????? crashed by board with a FATAL ERROR when you uninstall this... anyone, please help..

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: view_ad() in /home/lendinge/public_html/forum/global.php(528) : eval()'d code on line 6 


Select "Uninstall" from the dropdown menu in AdminCP->Manage Products->phpAdsNew Integration

Don't forget to remove any occurences of the ad-tag in your templates, else the compiled template still tries to call the view_ad() function.

Originally Posted by Triple_T

I have discovered a problem. The ads show but the target URL directs to: "http://forum.mydomain.com/adscript"

instead of "http://www.mydomain.com/adscript" where it should go.

Any way to fix this problem?

Did you explicitely set your URL in phpAdsNew's config.inc.php ($phpAds_config['url_prefix'])?

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by The M.I.P.

Did you explicitely set your URL in phpAdsNew's config.inc.php ($phpAds_config['url_prefix'])?

yep...

// The URL to your phpAds-installation
$phpAds_config['url_prefix'] = 'http://www.dutchbodybuilding.com/adserver';

The banner images show, but the target url's go to my forum subdomain.
Thanks

[OrionDesigns]

I get the following when I try to insert my innvoation code into my header template:

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate the template 'header':

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/oriongra/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3532) : eval()'d code on line 13

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement.

Here is my innvocation code itself:

<?php
if (@include('/home/oriongra/public_html/forum/phpadsnew/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
$phpAds_raw = view_raw ('zone:1', 0, '', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
}
?>

Any ideas?

[stefaandk]

Thanks for this mod, I've installed it on 3.5.3 and had no issues so far.

Cheers

[Citizen]

Does this hack use javascript at all? What actual code does it use for invocation?

[Bhuwan]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: view_ad() in /index.php(488) : eval()'d code on line 139

this is with the hack UNINSTALLED!

[The Realist]

Cant get it to work at all

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by Triple_T

yep...



The banner images show, but the target url's go to my forum subdomain.
Thanks

Can I get a little help here

thanks