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Adsense Revenue Sharing Hack 1.1 (0 queries version) · **Released**: 04-27-2005

Upgrade 1.1 notice:
The upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 is optional; it makes sure ads don't display in private messages. Thanks to venomx for the tip.

Hack Description:
This hack will allow you to offer Google Adsense revenue sharing to your vBulletin board users. Revenue sharing is a great way to reward your board members for their loyalty and adds a feeling of ownership in the board and it's success. Revenue is split between board administrator and thread starters. The percentage of probability is customizable by the administrator.

This hack is fundamentally the same like this hack; however, it adds some customization plus does not use any additional queries!

I wrote this hack a couple of months ago and didn't know there was any interest for it (you certainly don't want to spend money on something that doesn't take much time to code).

My time is *very* limited so I am not good at giving support. I hope the instruction included is self-explanatory. It is easy to expand the hack to your needs.

AlexanderT · #62 05-14-2005, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by CallieJo2

I am trying this but the instructions are not sinking in very good. Like here:

Quote:

This profile field needs to be the only custom profile field under the selected options category. Any other custom profile fields in the same category will be hidden as well.

I have more than one under edit profile.

Quote:

Go to your:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> ? ? -> Modify User Option Templates -> modifyoptions

In this template you will find several $customfields variables, one for each category in your options (the same categories as the ones for your profile fields). You need to enclose the appropriate $customfields variable with this conditional:

I go here and I do not understand what category? Is it edit profile? And where or what is it called in here?

Thanks!

I don't know what you were doing but nowhere do I find any such instruction posted for this hack.

LEAD_WEIGHT · #63 05-16-2005, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

I don't know what you were doing but nowhere do I find any such instruction posted for this hack.

May be he has the real PAID HACK or got lost & was at this link

Code:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=80464&highlight=Adsense

designBox · #64 05-17-2005, 09:19 PM

Maybe a dumb question but:

How difficult will it be to modify this Hack to allow sharing between Admin, Thread Starter and Last Poster?

(And by the way, are we allowed to modify this code or will this be any kind of copyright infrigment?)

By the way, many thanks for this awesome hack, i haven't installed it yet, but, i am sure, as soon as i will have my answers, i'll give it a try.

Thumb up.

venomx · #65 05-17-2005, 09:25 PM

If you get it changed to split that way let me know please?

Though I want it so it splits between admin, thread starter, and a random person thats posted in the thread.

designBox · #66 05-18-2005, 08:41 AM

Sure i will man :-)

I have another question concerning the actual hack.

Does the thread starter see their own ads?

EDITED: BTW, clicked on INSTALL

Polo · #67 05-18-2005, 12:25 PM

designbox as of now, I dont think nobody knows what ads are being displayed (if yours, or another specific member) you go to be careful with that because if you click on your own ads you could get banned from Google's adsense program...

venomx · #68 05-18-2005, 02:11 PM

Are you sure it shows the first posters ad to himself?

AlexanderT · #69 05-18-2005, 05:07 PM

Yes, the first poster or the board owner's ads are shown, depending on the percentage you entered in the control panel. It is rather easy to disable the display of ones own ads with an additional check in showthread.php (at least that's what I think now). If it is highly demanded, I could work on adding this feature.

CallieJo · #70 05-19-2005, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

I don't know what you were doing but nowhere do I find any such instruction posted for this hack.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101597

Was posted to me in this thread if you read through the posts here....I followed that but chose "options" instead of "edit Profile" in the instructions for the cat.

Basically, I took the advice from a couple peopes who replied to my post in this thread and pieced them together and figured it out. Then I posted to choose "options" instead of "edit profile" according to the tut posted to help direct me with my q.

AlexanderT · #71 05-19-2005, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by CallieJo2

[url]Basically, I took the advice from a couple peopes who replied to my post in this thread and pieced them together and figured it out. Then I posted to choose "options" instead of "edit profile" according to the tut posted to help direct me with my q.

I see so the question was more related to the modification posted over at vb.com. Were you able to figure out the problem?

designBox · #72 05-19-2005, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

Yes, the first poster or the board owner's ads are shown, depending on the percentage you entered in the control panel. It is rather easy to disable the display of ones own ads with an additional check in showthread.php (at least that's what I think now). If it is highly demanded, I could work on adding this feature.

I don't know if it will be highly demanded but i guess this would be really better to avoid temptations of peoples clicking on their own ads.

I was also wondering, What will be the easiest to code:
- Revenue shared between Admin, Thread Starter and Last Poster ?
OR
- Revenue shared between Admin and All posters of a Thread?

Would really like to see these modifications or someone who can bring me a little light of how to do this....

Thanks again for this usefull hack

vze2yqtm · #73 05-19-2005, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beano33
Before I installed this hack I had my ad code in the showthread template where they were displayed after the last post. I modified that code for google_ad_client = "$post[ad_client_id]";
google_ad_channel ="$post[ad_channel]";
but it wasn't inserting any client id so no one way getting paid.

So I removed the ad code from showthread and put it in the postbit template as suggested in the hack instructions. It works fine as far as functionality is concerned, but now the ads appear after the first post and we'd prefer them to show after the last post.

Can anyone tell me how to do one of the following:

1) make the hack work with the ad code in the showthread template, OR
2) get the ad code in the postbit legacy template to display after the last post instead of the first post.

Anyone know how to do this?

MichaelJM13k · #74 05-25-2005, 03:51 AM

Nice hack!

For me the google ads show up under the first post on every page (like this: http://www.xbox360boards.com/showthread.php?p=26) how can i get it just to show up under the first post on the FIRST page?

LEAD_WEIGHT · #75 05-25-2005, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CallieJo2

If you would take the time to read through the posts in this thread, you would see it all pertains to THIS thread!

No I'm not lost! Atleast I got it working without a response here...

Next time, don't be so rude!

BTW - it's a she...

BTW - "it's" a she... Describing yourself as female is your problem but I was only trying to help. "L"

topvar · #76 06-02-2005, 02:21 AM

Alexander,
AMAZING job, I greatly enjoyed installing this and think it will prove to be a great addition to my forum.
Thanks for distributing it freely (I too was approached by the $175 guy, and saw a few commercial versions as well).
Spot on, and "Thanks"

Am I correct in assuming that I should include a note that tells all that participate "NEVER click an ad in a thread that you started" ?
Party on Garth

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