Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

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:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

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

[COBRAws]

when i select the forums for GAB to show up and save. I enter again into the edit and none of the forums i checked are checked, instead there are others checked. Weird.

But i saw a great progress from the last version.

[BradE]

Originally Posted by COBRAws

when i select the forums for GAB to show up and save. I enter again into the edit and none of the forums i checked are checked, instead there are others checked. Weird.

But i saw a great progress from the last version.

Same thing happens to me. I have 2 forums in particular that won't display or save at all.

[The Geek]

Have you guys upgraded from beta 2? If so, did you uninstall the previous version first? Clean installs are not really having any problems - dirty upgrades are though.

Post me the results from settings->debug and Ill sort it out for you (generally takes 2 seconds).

[007]

This is by far the best banner hack. Has it been tested in 3.5 yet? I plan to upgrade soon and would love to continue using this. Just wondering. Thanks!

[The Geek]

its not working for 3.5 yet - the next version is though... only sticking point is Im stumped as to precaching the datastore and templates. No one seems to know the answer

[Bernd]

I'm having some weird issues after upgrading.

I've tried a clean install and deleted all phrases from Beta 2

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in \includes\gab_class_core.php on line 189

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in \includes\gab_class_core.php on line 250

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class gab_base in E:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\portal\forum\includes\gab_cl ass_core.php on line 4

[Divokymuz]

on eproblem i got.

on our server the safe mode restriction is in action.
so i cannot upload banners from my pc to the server with the module.

isn´t it possible to use html linked banners in the hack ? i think i´m only to stupid to find the solution. :-)

[The Geek]

bernd - looks like the file edits were not reverted and your settings were not removed.

Double check your file edits, delete GAB_settings from your datastore table and then run the settings portion of the installer.

Div - I was thinking about this the other day. No, there is not currently a way to enter the url manually however if you have acess to the GAB_ads table via phpMyAdmin or the like... you can always edit the ad and put the url in there.

Hope this helps

[Divokymuz]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Div - I was thinking about this the other day. No, there is not currently a way to enter the url manually however if you have acess to the GAB_ads table via phpMyAdmin or the like... you can always edit the ad and put the url in there.

if it is possible with the DB, then it helps me.

thanks.

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Have you guys upgraded from beta 2? If so, did you uninstall the previous version first? Clean installs are not really having any problems - dirty upgrades are though.

Post me the results from settings->debug and Ill sort it out for you (generally takes 2 seconds).

i un-installed and installed the new one, here's the debug i got:

Settings
Beta 2.0=Beta 2.0
$text=$text
other_scripts=
scripts=index,showthread,forumdisplay,forumhome,
forumids=1,32,39,2,4,54,10,8,11,12,49,42,43,44,7,5,34,48,40,22,33,30,41,3,
usergroups=
fieldtotoggle=1
number_of_ads=1
save_shown=
save_click=0
field_value_yes=Desabilitar Publicicad
track_runtime_views=0
usergroups_view=4,6,8,15,16,7,2,12,10,5,1,3,13,14,
js_banner_count=1
RC1.0=RC1.0
/www/docs/nightclubber.com.ar/public_html/board/gab/=/www/docs/nightclubber.com.ar/public_html/board/gab/
../gab/=../gab/
server_path_to_banners=/www/docs/nightclubber.com.ar/public_html/board/gab/
url_to_banners=http://www.nightclubber.com.ar/board/gab/
cyclerate=4300
redirectpage=advertising.php
persist_throttle=3
max_width=
max_height=
media_extensions=
url_advertising=info@nightclubber.com.ar
url_turn_off_ads=

frequency:
0=Low - 1
1=Regular - 2
2=High - 3
3=Mega Striesand High - 4

Templates:
0=Image item - GAB_item_image
1=Flash item - GAB_item_flash
2=Adsense item - GAB_custom_adsense
3=Custom item - GAB_custom_custom1
4=Standard Wrapper - GAB_wrapper_standard

Scripts

Categories
1 'title'=Images - no tracking [CAT] 'track_views'=0 'track_hits'=0 'template'=0 'ordinal'=50 'isactive'=1 'forums'=,1,32,2,4,54,10,8,11,12,49,42,43,44,7,5,22,17,18,21,33,30,41,3,14,25,55,38,35, 'scripts'=,
2 'title'=Flash - no tracking 'track_views'=0 'track_hits'=0 'template'=0 'ordinal'=20 'isactive'=0 'forums'=,1,2, 'scripts'=,showthread,forumdisplay,forumhome,search,faq,private,usercp,
3 'title'=Images - tracking 'track_views'=1 'track_hits'=1 'template'=0 'ordinal'=10 'isactive'=0 'forums'=,1,2, 'scripts'=,showthread,forumdisplay,forumhome,search,faq,private,usercp,
4 'title'=Flash - tracking 'track_views'=1 'track_hits'=1 'template'=1 'ordinal'=30 'isactive'=1 'forums'=,1,2, 'scripts'=,showthread,forumdisplay,forumhome,search,faq,private,usercp,
5 'title'=Unknown items 'track_views'=0 'track_hits'=0 'template'=1 'ordinal'=0 'isactive'=1 'forums'= 'scripts'=
6 'title'=GIF - Todo 'track_views'=0 'track_hits'=0 'template'=0 'ordinal'=0 'isactive'=1 'forums'=,1,32,39,2,4,54,10,8,11,12,49,42,43,44,7,5,34,48,40,22,33,30,41,3,55,38,35, 'scripts'=,

Banners

Listings

Templates with $GAB_ads[x] in them: