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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[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by jw00dy

yes it works on 3.6.2

really?? Looks people are having ALOT of problems with it.

Where's the developer?

[bada_bing]

Anyone willing to help me set this up? I have phpadsnew and the plugin installed but cant get the test banenr to show up.. I am willing to pay if someone can help me.. PM me if you are interested

[DeMagH]

when i tried it, i got a problem saving the template?!! when i reload the page, the argument <ad what="zone:12" /> is just not there

any ideas

[smoknz28]

Originally Posted by Masiello

I dont show any banner, i solved this just copyng invocation code of phpAdsNew in my Header template, that's all, whitout using any product.

You know....when I was running Ubb Threads...the use of phpAdsNew was so easy to set up. There was a header include file and I just copied and pasted the default code into Dreamweaver as a new file...then edited it there with the phpAdsNew code with about 8 different banners with tables. So easy!

Why is it such a booger to get it set up with vBulletin?

Are you saying you simply added all the phpAdsNew banner codes into the header template?

Please elaborate as I would like to use phpAdsNew to manage about 8 small banners.

Thank you,
Mark
www.f-bodyhideout.com/forums

[DeMagH]

actually with all the sudden everything is working extremely great right now, one thing though, what are the available arguments for this patch?! u mentioned only 3 in the first post, any more commands?

p.s:
thanks a million

[imported_infitech]

so i cant display ads on my site using phpadsnew without installing this hack?

[qbonoguy]

Great mod!
Quick question...

How do I get it to display a banner that has a keyword found in the forum title?

I'm currently using...

<ad what="$foruminfo[title]|default" />

The idea is for it to first display an ad related to that particular forum and if there is no ad with that keyword then just use one of the default ads.

However, it's not working right... any help or insight would be much appreciated!

[taydu]

will this work with 3.6.3 ??? Just looked at the features and I loving it already. I'm going to installed it if it will work with 3.6.3

thanks

[irishblacknight]

I'm using it with 3.6.3 without any issues

[taydu]

thanks, Íll try it now