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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[computer1]

I get this erryror when I try to put this code to my header
<ad what="zone:1" />
I run the newest version off php news

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT title, styleid, dateline, username, template_un
FROM template
WHERE templateid = 606;

MySQL Error : Table 'advbanner.template' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

[Fred.]

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

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

How can i resolve this?

*edit*

Plugin removed and updated to openx 2.4.4 :-)

[LWillmann]

Originally Posted by Kalina

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

Been searching all night for a solution.

I had to write myself a half-arsed product that isn't pretty to get my ads on the site to get it to work with the newer versions when I couldn't get this working with a new site.

I have a site that this has been running on for two years, and I've upgraded the board and it's still working. But I'm terrified to upgrade the ad software for fear of breaking it.

But I have discovered a problem with what appears to be template caching. It appears that the template that has the ads in it is being cached (and I don't want this) so my adviews aren't being properly counted.

[obmob]

This is working on 3.7? o.o

[Trana]

Ack, this doesn't work in 3.7.0? I upgraded and my banners are gone.

[T.S.]

Does anybody know if somebody is working on a 3.7/OpenX version of this?

[Ramsesx]

An easy way to get vb3.7 working with openx, you only need to paste the openx created java script zone code into the place you wish your banner to be.

[Tapage]

Originally Posted by Ramsesx

An easy way to get vb3.7 working with openx, you only need to paste the openx created java script zone code into the place you wish your banner to be.

I'm running 3.6.8 would be the same .. ?

[Tapage]

How I can paste the code .. or better my question is where ..

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by Tapage

I'm running 3.6.8 would be the same .. ?

Sure, should working on all websites.

Originally Posted by Tapage

How I can paste the code .. or better my question is where ..

Go first into your openx admin area f.ex. yoursiteurlopenx/www/admin/dashboard.php
After -->Inventory ---> Direct Selection
There should be the Bannercode.
Will be only there if you created a campaign and zone.
You can change the code from default php to javascript tag (Please choose the type of banner invocation).
You only need to add this javascript to the place you want to show the banner.
In my case I added it into the header template.

<tr>
  <td width="25" align="$stylevar[left]">&nbsp;</td>
  <td align="$stylevar[right]"><div align="left"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" width="468" height="60" border="0" /></a></div>
<td>
	<!--/* OpenX Javascript Tag v2.5.67-beta */-->

...........
</td>
<tr>
	<td width="20" align="$stylevar[left]">&nbsp;</td>
	
	<td align="$stylevar[right]">	<div id="buttons_outer"> 
		<div id="buttons_inner"> 
			<div id="buttons">