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About Developer · **Released**: 08-28-2001

Works with vBulletin v2.2.0!

This hack will allow you to add banners to your categories row (like done on SitePointForum.com - use that as a demo

).
You can add / remove sponsors for any category that exists and also on creation (of category) time.
You can specify the name, banner url and the sponsor's site.
Currently it only supports categories from level 1, and only on forum index. -if you want more please tell and I'll see what I can do.
Umm, that's it I think. Installation is fairly easy (and the hack itself didn't take too much time

), so you shouldn't have any problems.

Feedback from any kind is very appreciated!

First of all, run the following query

Code:

ALTER TABLE forum ADD sponsorname VARCHAR(100) not null AFTER cancontainthreads, ADD sponsorimg VARCHAR(100) not null AFTER sponsorname, ADD sponsorurl VARCHAR(255) not null AFTER sponsorimg

For more info about running queries take a look here or here.

Add a custom template, name it forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost_sponsor and put the following in it:

Code:

<tr id="cat">
	<td bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}" colspan="2"><a href="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><normalfont color="{categoryfontcolor}"><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a>
	<br><smallfont color="{categoryfontcolor}">$forum[description]</smallfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}" colspan="4"><a href="$forum[sponsorurl]" target="_blank"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$forum[sponsorimg]" border="0" alt="Proudly sponsored by $forum[sponsorname]"></a></td>
</tr>

(You can tweak this for your tables. Playing around with the colspans should be enough though. This is for the default table structure)

In forum.php (under your admin folder) add

PHP Code:


			
  maketableheader("Sponsors</b> <i>Only supported by categories</i>","",0);



  makeinputcode("Sponsor name","sponsorname");

  makeinputcode("Sponsor banner file<br>(your default images folder is added, no need in that)","sponsorimg");

  makeinputcode("Sponsor full URL","sponsorurl");

right after

PHP Code:


			
  makeyesnocode("Count posts made in this forum towards user post counts?","countposts",1);

(around line 121)

Still in forum.php, replace

PHP Code:


			
  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO forum

                      (forumid,styleid,title,description,active,displayorder,parentid,

                       parentlist,allowposting,cancontainthreads,daysprune,newpostemail,newthreademail,

                       moderatenew,allowhtml,allowbbcode,allowimages,allowsmilies,allowicons,

                       styleoverride,allowratings,countposts,moderateattach)

                   VALUES

                      (NULL,'$styleset','".addslashes($title)."','".addslashes($description)."','$isactive','$displayorder','$parentid',

                       '','$allowposting','$cancontainthreads','$daysprune','".addslashes($newpostemail)."','".addslashes($newthreademail)."',

                       '$moderatenew','$aallowhtmlcode','$aallowbbcode','$aallowimgcode','$aallowsmilies','$aallowicons',

                       '$styleoverride','$allowratings','$countposts','$moderateattach')");

with

PHP Code:


			
  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO forum

                      (forumid,styleid,title,description,active,displayorder,parentid,

                       parentlist,allowposting,cancontainthreads,sponsorname,sponsorimg,

                       sponsorurl,daysprune,newpostemail,newthreademail,

                       moderatenew,allowhtml,allowbbcode,allowimages,allowsmilies,allowicons,

                       styleoverride,allowratings,countposts,moderateattach)

                   VALUES

                      (NULL,'$styleset','".addslashes($title)."','".addslashes($description)."','$isactive','$displayorder','$parentid',

                       '','$allowposting','$cancontainthreads','".addslashes($sponsorname)."','".addslashes($sponsorimg)."',

                       '".addslashes($sponsorurl)."','$daysprune','".addslashes($newpostemail)."','".addslashes($newthreademail)."',

                       '$moderatenew','$aallowhtmlcode','$aallowbbcode','$aallowimgcode','$aallowsmilies','$aallowicons',

                       '$styleoverride','$allowratings','$countposts','$moderateattach')");

(around lines 136-147)

Still in forum.php, add

PHP Code:


			
  maketableheader("Sponsors</b> <i>Only supported by categories</i>","",0);



  makeinputcode("Sponsor name","sponsorname",$forum[sponsorname]);

  makeinputcode("Sponsor banner file<br>(your default images folder is added, no need in that)","sponsorimg",$forum[sponsorimg]);

  makeinputcode("Sponsor full URL","sponsorurl",$forum[sponsorurl]);

right after

PHP Code:


			
  makeyesnocode("Count posts made in this forum towards user post counts?","countposts",$forum[countposts]);

(around line 230)

Still in forum.php, replace

PHP Code:


			
  $DB_site->query("UPDATE forum

                   SET

                     styleid='$styleset', title='".addslashes($title)."', description='".addslashes($description)."',

                     active='$isactive', displayorder='$displayorder', parentid='$parentid', parentlist=$parentlist,

                     allowposting='$allowposting', cancontainthreads='$cancontainthreads', daysprune='$daysprune',

                     newpostemail='".addslashes($newpostemail)."', newthreademail='".addslashes($newthreademail)."',

                     moderatenew='$moderatenew', allowhtml='$aallowhtmlcode', allowbbcode='$aallowbbcode',

                     allowimages='$aallowimgcode', allowsmilies='$aallowsmilies', allowicons='$aallowicons',

                     styleoverride='$styleoverride', allowratings='$allowratings', countposts='$countposts',

                     moderateattach='$moderateattach'

                   WHERE forumid='$forumid'");

with

PHP Code:


			
  $DB_site->query("UPDATE forum

                   SET

                     styleid='$styleset', title='".addslashes($title)."', description='".addslashes($description)."',

                     active='$isactive', displayorder='$displayorder', parentid='$parentid', parentlist=$parentlist,

                     allowposting='$allowposting', cancontainthreads='$cancontainthreads',

                     sponsorname='".addslashes($sponsorname)."',sponsorimg='".addslashes($sponsorimg)."',

                     sponsorurl='".addslashes($sponsorurl)."',daysprune='$daysprune',

                     newpostemail='".addslashes($newpostemail)."', newthreademail='".addslashes($newthreademail)."',

                     moderatenew='$moderatenew', allowhtml='$aallowhtmlcode', allowbbcode='$aallowbbcode',

                     allowimages='$aallowimgcode', allowsmilies='$aallowsmilies', allowicons='$aallowicons',

                     styleoverride='$styleoverride', allowratings='$allowratings', countposts='$countposts',

                     moderateattach='$moderateattach'

                   WHERE forumid='$forumid'");

(around lines 261-273)
Save and upload forum.php.

In index.php (the main folder) replace this line

PHP Code:


			
        eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");

with this code

PHP Code:


			
        if ($forum['sponsorimg'] && $forum['cancontainthreads']==0 && $depth==1) {

          eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost_sponsor")."\";");

        } else {

          eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");

        }

(around line 298)
Save and upload index.php.

That's it.
If you did everything correctly (it wasn't very hard, was it?

) and I didn't do any mistakes (it's tested alright!, but I might have forgot something to post), you can start adding sponsors to your forum!

SVTBlackLight01 · #**292** 05-18-2003, 11:39 PM

Try this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=description

bgray · #**293** 06-01-2003, 02:29 PM

I've already got my main page tables altered. Does anyone know if this hack/template change will work out of the box for me with the way I have the forum at about 80% and on the left side?

www.sportscardforum.com

Thanks,

BGray

monstergamer · #**294** 07-01-2003, 08:40 AM

i have moded forum 2.3 with the store hack in it
so i moded it a little
and now i get a database error

PHP Code:


			
   Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:



Invalid SQL: UPDATE forum 

                   SET 

                     styleid='1', title='General', description='', 

                     active='1', displayorder='1', parentid='-1', parentlist='1,-1', 

                     allowposting='0', cancontainthreads='0', 

                     sponsorname='test',sponsorimg='88x31-1.gif', 

                     sponsorurl='www.monstergamer.net',daysprune='0', 

                     newpostemail='', newthreademail='', 

                     moderatenew='0', allowhtml='0', allowbbcode='1', 

                     allowimages='1', allowsmilies='1', allowicons='1', 

                     styleoverride='0', allowratings='1', countposts='1', 

                     moderateattach='0', storereply='0', storethread='0

                   WHERE forumid='1'

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '1'' at line 12



mysql error number: 1064



Date: Tuesday 01st of July 2003 05:33:44 AM

Script: [url]http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/vb/admin/forum.php[/url]

Referer: [url]http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/admin/forum.php?action=edit&forumid=1[/url]

can some one help me

Ninth Dimension · #**295** 07-01-2003, 08:59 AM

you are missing a single quote mark off the end of this line

Code:

moderateattach='0', storereply='0', storethread='0

Just change it to this to fix it

Code:

moderateattach='0', storereply='0', storethread='0'

monstergamer · #**296** 07-01-2003, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Today at 05:59 AM Ninth Dimension said this in Post #294
you are missing a single quote mark off the end of this line

Code:

moderateattach='0', storereply='0', storethread='0

Just change it to this to fix it

Code:

moderateattach='0', storereply='0', storethread='0'

i must have been blind lol
cause that was it
thanx

clamcrusher · #**297** 08-17-2003, 07:28 PM

i got it to work finally. vb 2.2.8

2 things-the proudly sponsered by text doesnt show up. if the page hesitates to load, you can see the text does show up, but when the image loads it gets placed on top of the text, making it not visable.

i dont really care too much about the text though.

this is my problem:

when i click the banner images, it doesnt take me to the sponser url. it tries to goto http://my board url/sponser url and then redirects to the file not found error page.

for example my board is http://www.anabolic-alchemy.com

it tries to goto http://www.anabolic-alchemy.com/www.gearboxinc.com

gearboxinc is my sponser url

how do i make it so that it doesnt add my boards url first?

Drowned · #**298** 10-04-2003, 03:23 AM

Please, somebody make this hack work on VB3... I love it...

Richard Tafoya · #**299** 12-12-2003, 07:07 AM

Has anyone tried this on vb3 Gamma? Sitepoint seems to have licked it. Anyone else?

himerus · #**300** 12-13-2003, 03:17 AM

I love the way it looks on sitepoint, and I'm waiting also for a vb3 release of the hack that is stable...

I'm still working on getting my VB set up for the first time, so I have a while to wait until I get my site customized the way I want anyway.

midnightz · #**301** 01-06-2004, 05:10 PM

Hi -

Is there away to have two banners from different sponsers side by side. I have tried and gotten really close but no cigar.

Thanks,

Midz

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