>>--ARROW ADS---> Hack

Arrow ads is based on and uses some original coding from
VB Banner Control 1.2 created by KarateKid. Thanks mate!

Why Arrow ads? This is the first VB hack that gives you total
control of advertising and sponsorship banners
How long does it take you to add a new banner using your conventional
banner software? It will only take you 30 seconds with Arrow Ads.
Arrow ads also supports mulitpule campaigns.

1) Forum targeting
This gives you the ability to target a nominated forum, arrow ads will automaticly place the
required banner at the top of the sponsored thread list and at the top of every thread within that thread.
It will also add a "Sponsored by xxx" in the forum display list under the title of each sponsored forum.
You can also add these banners to the bannerbank.

2) File tergeting
With this feature you can add sponsorship banners to the top of nominated files eg. usercp.php etc.
the required banner will be displayed at the top of each page of that area.
You can also add these banners to the bannerbank.

If a forum or file is not sponsored a random banner will be displayed from the bannerbank.

3) Bannerbank
If you have an advertiser that just wabts their banner on your site but not sponsoring a page or file,
just select "add to bannerbank" and the ad will be displayed at random if an area of the site is not sopnsored.

ADMIN FEATURES
1) Add
2) Modify
3) Search
4) Stats

In the admin you can view
guestclicks ( how many not logged in guests clicked on the banner )
userclicks ( which user has clicked how often on which banner )
views ( how often is the banner viewed )
date that the banner was added
date that the stats were reset
to save deleting, you can activate or deactivate a banner at amy time.

MEMBER FEATURES
View guestclicks, userclicks and total impressions. Also displays the status of each banner
including:

This Banner is campaign No. 3 and,
was added ~ Today.
was last reset ~ Today.
is Active.
is included in the bannerbank.
is displayed in the US Crowd control forum / directory. (with link to the forum)
or
is displayed in the Members List area (with link to the file)

Members can also reset their banner stats at any time as required.

DEMO: atmyparty.com

SCREENSHOT: Next posts

REQUIREMENTS:

4 X php file alteration
1 X database query
7 X new templates
4 X template modifications

INSTALATION TIME: aprox. 20 - 30 min

Tested on 2.3.0 but should work on all versions.

Don't forget to click on INSTALL
UPDATE - BIG FIX - 24/04/03
Bug fixed - this now stops guests from entering the ad stats area.
Please download the zip again and replace the userreport.php file
UPDATE - changes- 26/05/03
Basicly we are changing the "date added" to "date expired"
to upgrade will take you 5 mins. This is being done to make it easies to see when your ads expire and will be required for the new Arrow ads / VB Trader intergration hack to allow banners to be auto active upon payment via paypal .

~ This hack is Copyright ~
Please note that I reserve the right to code and release this hack for VB3, I have not and will not grant permission for anyone else to code this hack for VB3.

[trafix]

hmmm....your right, it should be easy...let me put it together (soon)

[GoTTi]

dunno if it matters much but:

in template modifiy in your instructions, you have:

PHP Code:

**********************************
OPEN Forum Home Page Templates: forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
**********************************

------------------
Find
------------------

<normalfont><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a>

------------------
REPLACE with
------------------

<normalfont><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a><br><smallfont> $showsponsorforumbit</smallfont>

**********************************
OPEN Forum Home Page Templates: forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
********************************** 


this code:

]</b></normalfont></a><br><smallfont> $showsponsorforumbit</smallfont>

has a spacr in:

<smallfont> $showsponsorforumbit

should be: <smallfont>$showsponsorforumbit

[GoTTi]

how do i take that extra space out of the forum again? I 4got lol

[GoTTi]

im having a problem with the rotation of the banners...

its like...only showing 1 banner instead of going threw the list...even when i click refresh...

any ideas?

[Imprezer]

Read back a page.

Only one banner will show in a selected forum unless you place them in the banner bank, but then they will randomly rotate in random "unsponsored" forums.

[GoTTi]

yea i got them all in teh banner bank, but only like 1 is showing out of 5 or 6

[Imprezer]

Oh, nm, then. Sorry. Can't help ya here.

[solent]

everything worked liked a charm except this problem see attchament.

well i dont know which template to edit to fix it so if you could please tell me where to look and what to fix in order to get the margins right i will really appricate it.

By the way that is one excellent hack. very good job trafix. keep it up

[kingd]

Is it possible to show two different banners simultaneous with this hack?

[trafix]

ummm, probibly yes would require some further modification. Are you looking for another banner in the footer???? obviously spocered forums and files would have to be the same banner. I will look into it for you, it shouldnt be too dificult though