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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[Jack Black]

Does this work with the latest version of phpadsnew 2.0.7?

[bonjurkes]

Originally Posted by stefaandk

I've upgraded 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 today and all my banners are still working OK.

Did u installed the phpadsnew to your forum's db or did u create a seperate db for it?_

[markbolyard]

I have installed it both ways. Using the vBulletin Database, and a seperate database. Both types of installation work fine and shouldn't be an issue.

[bonjurkes]

i installed it to the seperate db but that plugin tries to find these tables at forum's database and then give error.

i wrote the error few posts before. can you tell me what must i do it to work with seperate db??

[bonjurkes]

can anyone tell me what did i do wrong?? When i try too add that <ad tag to my style it gives error like

Invalid SQL:

SELECT title, styleid
FROM template
WHERE templateid = 455;

MySQL Error : Table '*_phpadsnew.template' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

I installed phpadsnew to seperate vb then vbulletin but i couldnt find what is going on wrong....

[tgmorris]

Originally Posted by bonjurkes

I installed phpadsnew to seperate vb then vbulletin but i couldnt find what is going on wrong....

If you are running it in a separate db you need to make sure that you have "compatibility mode" set to true in PAN.

[markbolyard]

Additionally, make sure your config is correct. If you installed phpadsnew, and are getting that error, it is not finding the table _phpadsnew.template. If you would like me to look at it, please feel free to contact me via MSN Messenger (In my profile) or by email.

[Tru2Chevy]

I had the same issue as bonjurkes, and no one here or on PAN forums could help me. I finally got my ads served just using the remote invocation code supplied by PAN. I like the way this mod is supposed to work, but I couldn't get it functioning correctly.

- Justin

[stefaandk]

Originally Posted by bonjurkes

Did u installed the phpadsnew to your forum's db or did u create a seperate db for it?_

I got seperate DB's

[bonjurkes]

hey,

i install it without a problem at last

Now i want to put some ads special for forums that i want

for example lets say i have a forum called "cars" and i want to display some car ads

and lets say i have another forum called " sport" and i want to display some sport ads

is there a way that i can do it? can anyone explain it to me please..