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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[Raptor]

works 100% perfect with 3.6.4

[dholt]

PHPadsnews has changed there name too Openads-2.0.10/Latest version is 2.0.10 there is a 2.3 but it is in development stage.

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by dholt

PHPadsnews has changed there name too Openads-2.0.10/Latest version is 2.0.10 there is a 2.3 but it is in development stage.

Two different products - click here to see the differences.

[dholt]

Thanks for adding the link I should have posted it.

I have a small Problem as I never had problems with this ad on. I have searched this forum but just not seeing the answer to fix this.

Warning: view_ad(/home/xxxxxx/public_html/forum/includes/lib-xmlrpc-class.inc.php) [function.view-ad]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /includes/init.php(319) : eval()'d code on line 68


Could someone please tell me what I would need to do to fix this. Thanks

I Get in when I try and add the ad tag in the header


NEVER MIND I HAD TO ADD THE SERVER PATH AND NOT THE HTTP PATH TO SERVER SETTINGS IN VB

[NathanLedet]

Installed, works...However, I've noticed a huge decrease in load time. I talked with a person that runs a completely separate forum and runs phpAdsNew as well and reported the same thing. Any ideas how to increase the load times?

[EdQ]

I use compact statistics which seem to help.

[NathanLedet]

A forum using this add-on I upgraded last night, 3.6.0 to 3.6.4. Upon upgrading, i get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: view_ad() in /home/content/i/h/a/ihaveaforum/html/forum/global.php(559) : eval()'d code on line 10

I've browsed this thread for similar errors and found a few instances of people who had the same error but simply replied with "solved"..no explanation on how they fixed it.

This code pretty much broke the web site. I've disabled hooks in config.php, the Admin backend does not work so I cannot disable it or remove it from the Admin CP...

help is very much appreciated

[gusfune]

Didn't work for me, i had to generate my own code because the <ad /> was showing only a blank square... Hope this system us updated for Openads and for Vb3.6.4

[NathanLedet]

What did you have to do?

[EdQ]

I must be lucky, still works for me on 3.6.4