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Geek Advertising Banner system RC1
Version: 1.00, by The Geek The Geek is offline
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Version: 3.0.7 Rating:
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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

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Old 12-05-2005, 01:55 PM
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update to 3.5.1 pls
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For some reason the clicks are not being tracked.... impressions seems to work fine but on image ads the clicks are not being recorded. Any ideas?
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No one has any ideas?
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No one has any ideas?
Are they in a category with image tracking turned on?

BTW: THis project has been ported to vb3.5.x however it isnt availible here as its a commercial script.

Thanks
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Are they in a category with image tracking turned on?

BTW: THis project has been ported to vb3.5.x however it isnt availible here as its a commercial script.

Thanks

Yes they are in a category with image tracking turned on, the impressions are recorded just fine but the clicks don't track. I went back and made sure both impression tracking and click tracking were turned on, and I also tried setting up a test category with full tracking and the same result, only impressions were tracked for image items. Not sure where to look to see what is causing the problem.


I'm still on VB 3.0.9.....as a few hacks I have installed are not yet available for VB 3.5. Once they become available I will be updating, but for now I'm sticking with the older version.
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No one??
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Hi there,

I installed GAB on my forum, it all works fine but i have also cmps installed and i would like to view banners on my portal page.
Is it possible to do that, if so what do i have to change ?

Greets, Luc
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Hi there,

I installed GAB on my forum, it all works fine but i have also cmps installed and i would like to view banners on my portal page.
Is it possible to do that, if so what do i have to change ?

Greets, Luc
what version you using?

damn this hack is ownage.. dude well nice, you should port this to vb 3.5.3!

*install - will test this in good time?.?
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what version you using?

damn this hack is ownage.. dude well nice, you should port this to vb 3.5.3!

*install - will test this in good time?.?
hehe, thanks... it is, but its not on .org

this SHOULD help-> http://www.thevbgeek.com/showthread.php?t=363
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PHP Code:
Fatal errorCall to undefined function: globalize() in /home/horny/public_html/admincp/gab_install.php on line 44 

I am getting this error when I run gab_install.php file. please help
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PHP Code:
Fatal errorCall to undefined function: globalize() in /home/horny/public_html/admincp/gab_install.php on line 44 

I am getting this error when I run gab_install.php file. please help
THis is not a vb3.5x hack
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THis is not a vb3.5x hack
:disappointed: :disappointed: :disappointed: :disappointed:

Any way do youknow any hack similar to this one that i can use it Vb 3.5.3

I need to hide gogole in some of my forums...

Please help
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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
I also have the same problem and i running vBulletin 3.0.12. Any one who have a solution ?
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My gab_stats table crashes about 3 times a week. I am using vb 3.53.

Anyone have any ideas? I would hate to have to pull this product off my site.
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this is designed for 3.0x not the 3.5x series
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