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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[Mauu]

Sorry, but can you be a bit more explicit? Compatability mode is turned on in PAN and it will deliver ads perfectly fine outside of vB.

[D.Ilyin]

Originally Posted by Mauu

Sorry, but can you be a bit more explicit? Compatability mode is turned on in PAN and it will deliver ads perfectly fine outside of vB.

And in my situation... as i described above....
Ads with PHP code shows fine in non vB and in admincp in phpAdsNew 2.0.8, but not shows in vB.
Others ads (like HTML and pics) displays without problems.

[Mauu]

This system seems to be very flakey to me. Can someone recommend a different solution?

[Ncturnal]

Originally Posted by Mauu

This system seems to be very flakey to me. Can someone recommend a different solution?

We use Adpeeps on www.mr2trader.com. We've been very happy with it, but it's not a free product. Then again, sometimes you get what you pay for.

[furst]

Does this work with 3.6.0? If not, does anyone know an alternative? I don't need anything overly sophisticated.

[VViper]

This PHP Add thing isnt that user friendly.
I have made an SWF banner and saved it.

How can i get this to display at either the footer or the header?

Also can it do a random grab from the banners created?

thanks for sharing the Modification

[dholt]

How do I Integration this into VB. I know noob Question any help please

root/Forums
root/phpadsnews

I understand I have to create a db for it or can it be added to the vb db. what I need is the root structure for it.

I downloaded this from
http://www.phpadsnew.com
and downloaded this from
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...=100229&page=2

Thanks if anyone else uses this with vBulletin I use Version 3.6.1

[Quarterbore]

I will be putting this on my 3.6 board real soon...

Edit: All done and she works great... I need to learn how to use the base script but the integration worked awsome...

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forums/

[gamelandz]

I have to ask this again b/c i can't find the answer...

How do i setup the code to show ads only in a certain forum?

<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid']==3"><ad what="navbar" /></if>

...the above code only works for the main category 3...but not when a user is looking a a thread inside the category #3

vb 3.5.4

[thenewuser]

I put the invocation code in the index.php and this mod to modify it. I've gotten this to work before but for some reason it sin't working this time around.

Any suggestions?

I'm using:

"<td align="$stylevar[right]" valign="center" height="62">

<ad what="zone:1" />

</td>
"

In the header template...