Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

HowdA All.

From the makers of Hydrogen comes the latest mack - GAB (Geek Advertising Banners).

This has come about by needing an advertising system that no other hack seemed to totally fulfill. Personally - I really didnt want to burden myself with supporting another hack - but I felt it was significantly better than other hack systems out there so I thought many would be able to benefit from it.

Whats so freaking cool about it?

1- use flash, normal, text based (google adsense) or rotating banners
2- Decide which scripts run the banners
3- Define which forums run the banners
4- define which usergroups can turn off the banners
5- Make ads stop at x amount of hits
6- Make ads stop at x amount of views
7- Make ads start/stop at certain times
8- track views and/or hits
9- Wipes your bum

Why am I releasing this now? It seems to be hip and trendy to release Banner hacks. In all reality - this has been a very long work in progress that is finally rounding the finsihing stages. The current RC pacakge is considered complete except for the show stats segment (its recording stats, but you cant browse them easily yet).

LIke with any hack (especially a Beta) back up you DB and files needing change (global.php,admincp/index.php).

Known issues:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

For users of GAB Beta 2, uninstall it and then install this version. In all reality, you could just revert the file changes and delete the GAB_ tables from yur DB (heck, you dont even need to do that).

To upgrade from RC1.5 to RC1.6, just replace existing files with the latest from the downloaded package and run the template portion of the installer (you can skip the rest of the install steps). You may have to revert your GUSH_main and GUSH_ad_row

Donations

I have never asked for donations for any of the macks I have done - however since I have spent well over 60 hours coding this - I thought I would stick my neck out there. If you like my mack, it brings you some money and you want to keep my fridge stocked with beer and Cheetos, then feel free to drop some cash in my paypal account: geek@thenailgeek.com
If youre having difficulty keeping beer in the fridge yourself - fill yours before you fill mine.
If you think the mack sucks, or youre just a tight git then please dont bother

nJoy

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Hanif

Look forward to it Geek, it worked great on 3.08 but looking forward to it on 3.5 any idea how much it will be???

under 50 notes???

Let me know if you need testing for the product.

Kind regards,

Hanif

yes - itll actually be a little less than GARS and GAL

[Hanif]

*BUMP* Anything on this Mr Geek???

[o0oKARo0o]

It looks excellent but I have a question. Would it be possible to force the user to click on the banner? I mean, if he doesnt click at least once a day or everytime he makes a connection, he wouldn?t be able to see the forums or the specified message...
Hope it?s possible to make it ..
Thanks in advance

[Hanif]

Well Geek has released a Beta version talk about it here

http://www.thevbgeek.com/showthread.php?p=1645#post1645

I wonder where Geek has gone though...?

Hanif

[The Geek]

Im here! Just not as much. My focus is on my site you mentioned above.

Hope you got what you were after.

[Timbeaux38]

Thia may have already been covered, but I have a sponsor that wants to be able to see his tracking info for his banner? how do I set that up?

[luckske]

Hi,

Does anyone know how i can get the gab bannersystem working on my cmps portal and Gallery page ?

All availible scripts:

showthread
forumdisplay
forumhome
search
faq
private
usercp
index

How can i add some pages like cmps , vba gallery ?

Grtz, Luc

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Timbeaux38

Thia may have already been covered, but I have a sponsor that wants to be able to see his tracking info for his banner? how do I set that up?

Currently, there is no public display for people to view statistics. This feature will be added in another module in the pipeline.

Luc, you need to add the scriptnames in the scripts section.
ie vbacmps is vba_index (if I remember right)
To get the scriptname, open up the PHP page... its toward the top.

HTHs

[shadowdancer36]

What ver of Vbull is this ment for? I'm over here trying to install it with no luck. Everytime I run the install, I just get a blank screen. The folders have the right permissions, and the files are in the correct areas. Any ideas?

[The Geek]

its for vb3.0x

[funinthesun]

Could you update this for 3.5 please? :nervous:

[The Geek]

I have done - however its a commercial project now.

[ozaurora]

Before I ask for help are the click stats supposed to work? I have setup the cron job, enabled click counting, etc. but not getting any click counts.

tia

Jo

[The Geek]

Yes, they work - however I dont even run vb3.0x anymore (im on 3.5x) so I dont think ill be much help anymore

Sorry man!

[ozaurora]

hrm ok thanks...I'll keep pulling hair...