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

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by johnscanlan2

Not looking for "support" from the author, I was just making a simple request to this thread.
As I stated I already had a satisfactory work around, I was just being curious as I indicated.

If you don't want users to ask questions of this group perhaps you should lock this thread. I apologize for causing you any stress.

It's not a question about not giving support at all, but about leaving features alone, which have been implemented only for a few users. If you don't show banners because of a location 17 which makes not part of the standard settings, you arise a lot more questions than just this one. "Hey, they say it can have more than 10 locations, how comes I don't have them?" ... and here you go

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by aaronhaul

Hello Guys,

Has anybody tried the Rotating Banner System on "First Post Content" and "Last Post Content" on thread positions?

I put the codes:
<div align="center"><!--@vbbanners:7@--></div> and
<div align="center"><!--@vbbanners:8@--></div>

on each Ad Banner positions inside the thread, and none of the banners displays on any of the post.

Is there any solution for this?

Please check the timing and eventually selected forum sections, usergroup exclusions etc.

If you can show the standard banners, duplicate one of them and put your individual code or images in the duplicate.

[johnscanlan2]

Originally Posted by aaronhaul

Hello Guys,

Has anybody tried the Rotating Banner System on "First Post Content" and "Last Post Content" on thread positions?

I put the codes:
<div align="center"><!--@vbbanners:7@--></div> and
<div align="center"><!--@vbbanners:8@--></div>

on each Ad Banner positions inside the thread, and none of the banners displays on any of the post.

Is there any solution for this?

For some reason vB works better with simple coding of HTML. Did you try:

<center><!--@vbbanners:7@--> </center>

You may even try putting a break such as

<br><center><!--@vbbanners:7@--></center><br>

Not sure what you are trying to do here, however if it is 2 banners (different or the same banner owner (client)rotating in the same place, the second banner would also have to be in position 7. That way any banners designated 7 would rotate with any rotate with each other.

I have had as many as 10 different banners all rotating in the same space just by designating them all one number. If you don't know how to do this give me a shout as it is simple to grasp once you figure it out.

Also I will placed a banner in a thread and "stuck" it as the first. Great spot for advertisers. vBBanners is a great mod that you can get to do just about anything once you get comfortable using it.

John

John

[johnscanlan2]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

It's not a question about not giving support at all, but about leaving features alone, which have been implemented only for a few users. If you don't show banners because of a location 17 which makes not part of the standard settings, you arise a lot more questions than just this one. "Hey, they say it can have more than 10 locations, how comes I don't have them?" ... and here you go

OK I get it thanks. Feel free to delete my post if you wish.

[Toorak Times]

I'm still trying to figure out where Positions 0-9 actually lie on which page???

Global, Board, Forum, Thread, Blog Sidebar, Entry, List and Archive seem to have a lot more than 9 positions.

Where do these 9 Positions appear on my site please?

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by Toorak Times

I'm still trying to figure out where Positions 0-9 actually lie on which page???

Global, Board, Forum, Thread, Blog Sidebar, Entry, List and Archive seem to have a lot more than 9 positions.

Where do these 9 Positions appear on my site please?

They appear wherever you place them. There are random positions controlled by you, wherever you put the code they appear, they are not fixed.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Toorak Times

I'm still trying to figure out where Positions 0-9 actually lie on which page???

Global, Board, Forum, Thread, Blog Sidebar, Entry, List and Archive seem to have a lot more than 9 positions.

Where do these 9 Positions appear on my site please?

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

They appear wherever you place them. There are random positions controlled by you, wherever you put the code they appear, they are not fixed.

You would make a template modification in order to show a banner

[Toorak Times]

Gio, thanks, I actually figured that bit out...amazing what happens when one actually watches your instruction video...I highly recommend others watching it.

The penny dropped about the templates when I watched it.

OK NOW I know how it woiks, can I drop the Google adsense in there as it seems to double up my banners, probs been asked heaps, sorry

[Basit Kingz]

Hi.!
I have installed Rotating Banner System. I have created different image banners that are working fine. But Whenever I have tried to add Flash/SWF banner with those image banner it does not show SWF banner with those image banners.
Here is the code I am using for file signalfeeds.swf.

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="780" height="18" id="yourflashbanner" align="middle">
                    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                    <param name="movie" value="images/signalfeeds.swf" />
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                    <embed src="images/signalfeeds.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="780" height="18" name="yourflashbanner" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Moreover this is settings preview.
Attachment 148893

Thanks in Advance

[Alibass]

Try

<param name="movie" value="./images/signalfeeds.swf" />