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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[DreyerMedia]

Is it possible to use this mod when you have openads installed on a remote server?

[kafi]

This hack serves me very well, hovever I have found, that it cause overloading of server (not this addon but open ads maybe)

There is a recomendation to move plugin to files.... I would like to give it a try, but how ???

Thank you!

[al-moslem]

Dear All,

I installed this good hack, and it was working fine, but suddenly the home page of the forum and the admin login page gives me this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function view_ad() in /home/XXXXXXX/public_html/vb/global.php(563) : eval()'d code on line 15

How can I remove this hack manually, because I can login to AdminCP and remove it from there.

Please assist me.

Regards,

[Hoffi]

Disbale Hoos in your config File. Just Comment that one Line out near at the End of the File.

[TenPercenter]

Is there a way to utilize either of these two local invocation options?

"Don't show the banner again on the same page"
"Don't show a banner from the same campaign again on the same page"

I want to run a string small banners up one column using a single zone, and I'd like to have no banners repeated on any one page load. This gives me a true randomized banner selction even when i have banners from many different campaigns and publishers.

[TomasDR]

I have been using this addon for a while and it has worked fine. Today I added my first flash banner and it doesn't display.

I get an error 'FlashObject' is undefined. Or in Firefox FlashObject is not defined.

The view source is the following:

     <!-- BEGIN ad 96495895 -->
<div id='m3_0869ec791522e23bbf6e5d350caab773' style='display: inline;'><img src='http://ads.xxxxxxx.com/www/images/1x1.gif' alt='New York Shark Bar' title='New York Shark Bar' border='0' /></div>
 
<script type='text/javascript'>   <!--// <![CDATA[   var fo = new FlashObject('http://ads.xxxxxxx.com/www/delivery/ai.php?filename=sharkbar.swf&contenttype=swf&clickTARGET=_blank&clickTAG=http://ads.xxxxxxx.com/www/delivery/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=14__zoneid=1__cb=bb83a83d89', 'mymovie', '468', '60', '8');   fo.addParam('wmode','transparent');   fo.write('m3_0869ec791522e23bbf6e5d350caab773');   // ]]> --></script><div id='beacon_14' style='position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; visibility: hidden;'><img src='http://ads.xxxxxxx.com/www/delivery/lg.php?bannerid=14&campaignid=8&zoneid=1&channel_ids=,&cb=bb83a83d89' width='0' height='0' alt='' style='width: 0px; height: 0px;' /></div><!-- END ad 96495895 -->

Any ideas?

[Fred.]

I use this plugin from the begin, and now i want to disable the plugin for a moment. (openads update)

when i disable the plugin, i get a blank forum page with no info or error?

How can i resolve this?

[Raptor]

can the banners be added using this mod:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=154361

[flOid]

XML-RPC isn't working anymore with the newest Openads versions.

An update would be nice...

[Kalina]

Yeah, Openads, which is now OpenX, is not working with this anymore.

Been searching all night for a solution.