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

[SPEEDKILLZ]

anyone?

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by SPEEDKILLZ

anyone?

This was an answer.

Originally Posted by digeditor

There's a template for the Header(?) which you would put your reference (@0 etc) into.
To rotate those ads. you would need to assign them all to the same position

Here is another.

You need to do what they said and add the code from this response to additional.css template:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=309000

That will fix the positioning.

To rotate ads in the same spot you place those separate ads into the same banner position within this mod. Then in the ad position of your template you would put "<!-- @vbbanners:0@ -->".

The "0" in the variable refers to the position you want the stored banners to come from in this mod. Then once that is setup on each pageload the banners within that stored position will randomly be chosen to show at your ad location.

There are quite a few other options, but they are all explained pretty well within the documentation attached to this mod.

[dariyos]

end-date function doesn´t work

i have tested a banner with an end-date.

e.g "month: march" "day: 5" "year:2014" "hour:10" "minute:12"

after this end-date, the banner is still displayed on the forum.

it should be deactivated.

i really need this function, any ideas?

[DemOnstar]

I have been trying for days to get this to work. Not seen one banner yet.
I have searched through 116 posts and haven't found a tutorial that I can understand. lol.

I believe it will work one day..

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by dariyos

end-date function doesn?t work

i have tested a banner with an end-date.

e.g "month: march" "day: 5" "year:2014" "hour:10" "minute:12"

after this end-date, the banner is still displayed on the forum.

it should be deactivated.

i really need this function, any ideas?

I haven't seen an issue with this and been using it for quite some time (well over a year). I have seen dozens of banners expiring and being placed on the expired banner list and no longer being displayed.

[digeditor]

Originally Posted by SPEEDKILLZ

anyone?

See the reply in post #2501

[digeditor]

1. create your ads and put them somewhere
2. determine which template you want the ad to appear in
3. start a new ad
4. give it a name
5. pick the position you want to use, 0 through 9 - these correspond to the @0 - @9 things which you put in your template
6. go tot the TEXT box - insert the code for your ad. For a non swf ad mine looks something like:
<A HREF="http://www.digonline.org" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="/ad_folder/images/March_2014_mtg1.png " WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="125" TITLE="Click here" ALT="Click for more info"></A>
7. enter your start and end date - the advice in a lot of posts here is to pick a date before today
8. Go back to the top and enable the ad
9. repeat for all the ads you want to rotate in whatever position you picked

[TheLastSuperman]

I wish I could mark as installed more than once but can't and not all forum owners you do work for have time to mark as installed so from me to you y2ksw consider this +1 more install for a total of about 15 installs of this mod alone here in the past few months - many people are thankful for this mod .

[My Hattiesburg]

Are the impressions statistics accurate? I'm getting some crazy high readings like 1.6 million in 3 months. It's showing on every page, but dang that seems like a lot.

There's also another ad sharing that location and it has the same, so that's 3 million impressions in 3 months.

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

Are the impressions statistics accurate? I'm getting some crazy high readings like 1.6 million in 3 months. It's showing on every page, but dang that seems like a lot.

There's also another ad sharing that location and it has the same, so that's 3 million impressions in 3 months.

I've found them to be accurate. You should be able to compare it to pageload statistics.

If you're getting that many impressions your bank account ought to be telling you it's doing well too!