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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[gusfune]

Originally Posted by NathanLedet

What did you have to do?

Had to go into openads (aka phpmyads) webpanel, go to inventory and select generate code (something like that, my panel is in portuguese).
Ask it to generate a Remote code, it will be a HTML code with <a tag>etc, etc</a>.
Grab this code and put on yout VB style where you want your ad to be exibted.

This will work for sure, but if yo uwant advanced capabilities like this hack does (like restrict to usergroups, etc) you'll have to code by yourself.
HINT: <if> tags may be really helpful in case you're doing it.

Originally Posted by EdQ

I must be lucky, still works for me on 3.6.4

What's your phpmyads/openads version? It's really not working for me... Using the latest relase of openads...

[EdQ]

From openads

You are currently using Openads 2.0.11 running on Apache 2.0.52, PHP 4.3.9 and MySQL 4.1.12-log

[Eagle Creek]

phpAdsNew has a new name: Openads

Is it compatible?

[gusfune]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

phpAdsNew has a new name: Openads

Is it compatible?

It's the same system, it's compatible.
Some people got this hack working, but others (like me), are having problems: ad not showing up

[Nick0r]

Does anyone know if this supports "text under banners"?

[NathanLedet]

I'm running PhotoPost and have a plug in which displays the latest uploaded pictures on my portal home page (jig)...

so I have vBulletin, vbPortal, PhotoPost, and a plug in which displays the latest photos.

for some reason when I enter the code <ad what="zone:1" />, my pictures disappear and i get the following errors where the latest photos should be:

Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /Gallery/inc_features.php on line 67

Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /Gallery/inc_features.php on line 143

Any ideas why this is causing a conflict with PhotoPost?

[jw00dy]

I run the same setup, and the ajax mods don't transfer over to vbP, so you'll just have to put the normal code from OpenAds in there if you want it to work.

Or you can hit up the vbP guys for some help getting it to work on vbP, but I didn't feel it was worth their time when I could just use the normal code and be done with it.

[NathanLedet]

Originally Posted by jw00dy

Iyou'll just have to put the normal code from OpenAds in there if you want it to work.

Still new to OpenAds...what's the "normal code"? will it still rotate banners? track impressions and clicks?

[Gsmdenis]

very good , for this , i have just test

[jw00dy]

Originally Posted by NathanLedet

Still new to OpenAds...what's the "normal code"? will it still rotate banners? track impressions and clicks?

Yes, they will still rotate.

In openads the code is supplied and called invocation code I believe (can't remember exactly). I think it's right after you setup the banner. You then edit your header template and add that code there.