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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:
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 Show Your Support
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ok.. only problem I'm having now is I cannot save any scripts (ad blocks). everything else is working.
once the scripts work the images should show up on my site ooh, and on the stats it just gives an error 'select a valid date range' |
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Nice formatting on the new Readme. The upgrade went very smoothly! No probs to report...good instructions. But I still have no banners :nervous: I AM SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT!! I must have something goofed? One thing I did notice that seemed strange was the "Master" only shows one banner (should be 2) and the "active" and "use master" fields are listed as "n/a".....I could not see how to activate the "master"? Here is the debug info (yet another nice touch!): PHP Code:
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haha, here's my debug if it helps.
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Beat - Ive noticed a couple of things from the debug.
Under the master script (edit the master script)... the Defined ad block has nothing for its banner count. That needs to be at least 1 or no images will get pulled. Some of your banners are in inactive categories which means they wont appear in the Display page. (They just kind of disapear is the category is blank) Finally, in your navbar template, you appear to have $GAB_ads[2] and $GAB_ads[5]... but no $GAB_ads[0] and up The first ad output is always $GAB_ads[0], the next $GAB_ads[1], etc... HTH's |
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Try running the settings portion of the install. Actually, it looks like you had the old beta installed maybe? Before you do that though, delete GAB_settings from the datastore if you can to get rid of any old settings. HTH#s |
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Everything seems to work just as described, except one minor detail. Hanif brought this up a few pages ago, and I have had the same problem. You suggested to re-install the newest version, but I think the issue is with me not understanding, not the hack.
The "want to advertise with us?" link goes to advertise.php (which is just a blank white screen when clicked). I already have an info page for advertising, and would like it to link there (vendor.html). In the GAB Manager/Settings/Options, I'm confused at what to do. The way that it sits in the settings below, doesn't do anything different. I've also tried a simple redirect of advertising.php to vendor.html, but that doesn't work, because then it interferes with the actual banner itself. |
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After a week and a half and 3 revisions I am certain this doesn't work on my forum. I am pretty sure, at least for me, the problem starts with the upoad.
I had much better results with Beta 2. Images uploaded, tested and viewed in my forums. So I'm pretty sure I am capable of following the instructions. Even when I get this working, I still don't understand how to go about setting up multiple rotating banner zones. From want I gathered it seems more like it is designed to do only single banners and maybe one rotating banner. I have asked this question 2 or 3 times already and have not recieved a reply. If it's gone going to accomidate multiple rotating banners I would rather know sooner than later. One point I would like to share in case some of are making the same mistake. When I read the instruction, I thought the [] were just for reference purposes only and didn't use them in my template because in previous purposes they were not used. Is there anyone who has the RC1 working? |
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there's something i may not be fully understanding..
i want to have my ads appear in only one section on each page (i've placed them right below the navbar). however, i different ads to show up (rotate) in this position.. so i want to see AdSense ads, then reload and see an image ad, etc.. is this possible?? i can't seem to get more than one type of ad to show up in the same position.. also, i'm having the same problem with the 'want to advertise with us?' link - takes me to a blank page that says 'Settings & Options'. i also end up in the same spot when i click on 'Stats' in my admincp... |
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ok, i accedentally deleted ad script for forum home page, now I have no ad on the main froum page. how do I recreate it?
I also have a home page that's created using VBadvanced CMPS, can I add a banner to it as well? |
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