Major Additions - vB.Sponsors - Forum and Category Sponsorship Ads (and AdSense) with Statistics

vB.Sponsors
Forum and Category Sponsorship Ads with Statistics

Add sponsor's ads or Google AdSense to forums & categories

INTRO:
This extension will allow you to add sponsors to you forums and categories or use Google AdSense. You can also track the hits to each sponsor by date as well. See below for more features and demo sites.

For vBulletin 3.6.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1116730

For vBulletin 3.5.x, please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103327

FEATURES:
-Enable sponsorship on forums and categories
-Ability to use Google AdSense code
-Use a banner or a text link
-Supports large banners for the top of the sponsored forum and small banners for the forum listing
-Tracks hits for each sponsor
-Statistics viewable inside Admin CP
-Ability to alter the "Forum sponsored by:" text
-Easy to use and install

INSTALLATION:
Documentation is located here.
I've found it's easier to maintain an online version rather than files included in the download.

THANKS:
...to vBulletin.org and its members.
...to the people who have installed this mod, suggested improvements and found bugs.

FEEDBACK:
Feedback Forums: http://DigitalDeviation.com/forums/
Feedback is always welcomed! Good or bad. Post all feedback and feature requests in this thread or in the forums above. Trust me, I'll be reading it even if I don't respond to every post.

SUPPORT:
Support Forums: http://DigitalDeviation.com/forums/
Should you need any assistance with this, you can reach me via the link above.

In either case, please post as much detail as possible with any code or screenshots pertaining to the issue. MySQL, PHP and web server software versions are helpful. You can obtain these from the Admin CP in vBulletin.

DONATE:
If you like this product, a donation would be appreciated. But of course its not required.


VERSION HISTORY:
2.0.6 - BugFix
-Changed maxversion attribute to enable vBulletin 3.7 installs

DEMO SITES: If you'd like your forum added here, PM me.
Sites listed at http://www.digitaldeviation.com/proj...referencesites

---KNOWN BUGS---
-NONE

Don't forget to click the install link below if you use it.

[Jester@ARS]

Originally Posted by Delilahs

I've nearly got it to work on 3.8.1, but just get the following error when I click on the link to show the sponsor.

http://www.delilahs.co.uk/forum/%E2%...nk.php?f=13%94

If you take out the "%E2%80%9D" from the url above the sponsors link works perfectly, does anyone know what can be done to rectify the problem?

Make sure you have a "http://" in front of your sponsor's address..

IE - http://www.sponsor.com versus www.sponsor.com

[wraggster]

hi had this working for ages on my forums with no problems apart from the centering issue which i fixed this morning.

however this only shows up when clicking say the forum, when i click an individual thread its not there, anyone know the code for inserting on threads too ?

[diviner]

Originally Posted by Jester@ARS

I have this mod working on 3.8.1..

I think the biggest issue is that the instructions listed on their website are in a funky character set and vB doesn't recognize the double quotes.. Go thru and replace the quotation marks in their template modifications with normal quotes in wordpad, notepad, etc and change the max version to 3.8.1 in the install xml and you're in business..

Hi Jester...

Can you bi kind and send me fixed files ( miksanov@yahoo.com ) or at least explain this procedure little more detail. Thanks a lot...

Mihajlo

[diviner]

Never mind...

I got it...

Thnx anyway...

[markuswarren]

Hello there,
I am using vB.Sponsors on my forum and was given a couple of flash banners to use, which, alas, did not work as vB.S is using an img tag and the flash seems to want to use an embed tag to display the content.

I'm no expert at doing this but had a look at the code for the mod and the code to placed in the template's and worked out that what I needed were a few options for the two banner items.

One is to say if the banner is flash or not, if it's not then it'll use the normal img tag code, if it is flash then it'll use the flash code, so I put in a simple "if" conditional. I also figured out I'd need to supply width and height, so I added those options to. Thus there are a total of six new options (three per sponsor banner).

Anyway, my point being, it might not be pretty in the admincp, but the code side of things does indeed seem to be working and flash banners are displaying, thus I thought I should contact you and suggest I forward over my modification to you, as it's your mod, and you could take a look and decide if it's worthy of an update to the official release of vB.Sponsors

I tried to email via your website but the CAPTCHA verification image is not being displayed (I'm using OS X 10.5.7 with Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5)

[VonDoom]

So far ive got this badboy to show up where it supposed to but the links arnt redirecting to the sponsors site. i suppose ill tinker with it for awhile on my test board. Will click installed when i get it working 100%

[jwashburn]

I had this working for ever, I just realized it has broken. I get the right link, but it never redirects to the new site.

Problem solved. I moved my forum and forgot to update the links.php page

[jwashburn]

Originally Posted by VonDoom

So far ive got this badboy to show up where it supposed to but the links arnt redirecting to the sponsors site. i suppose ill tinker with it for awhile on my test board. Will click installed when i get it working 100%

Check the path to your forum in Links.php

[VonDoom]

+1 Great tip. lol thanks its working perfectly on 3.8.2 now

ETA: *Installed*

[bada_bing]

tried to install this on vb 3.8.3 and says its not complatible when I try and install the plugin. Will this mod get updated I love this mod when I was running 3.5