Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by milsirhc

thanks for the update.

I'm still alittle confused regarding upgrading this plugin.

I copied the files into includes and import the plugin as upgrade.. is that all? Do I have to remove all my previous...

And also do I need to change the .xml file as you have mentioned now? *lost*

One more question is does this version resolve the ad sharing bug in the previous version??

Thanks again Redtyger!!!!!!!

You do have to change the plugin, overwrite your existing plugin with the new one, you don't have to install it first. In fact you shouldn't, because you'll lose your settings.

v3.1 Fixed usergroup and userid banning for shared adcode, again now they actually work.

Originally Posted by nokiacep

Hi RedTyger
I wanna ask a question about it.

You say

IN FILE includes/vb_ad_management/global_start.php,FIND:

PHP Code:

<setting varname="adintegrate_footer_adcode_rand" displayorder="45">
    <datatype>free</datatype>
    <optioncode>textarea</optioncode>
</setting> 


ADD BELOW:

PHP Code:

<setting varname="adintegrate_custom_onoff" displayorder="991">
    <datatype>boolean</datatype>
    <optioncode>yesno</optioncode>
    <defaultvalue>0</defaultvalue>
</setting>
<setting varname="adintegrate_custom_adcode" displayorder="992">
    <datatype>free</datatype>
    <optioncode>textarea</optioncode>
</setting>
<setting varname="adintegrate_custom_adcode_rand" displayorder="993">
    <datatype>free</datatype>
    <optioncode>textarea</optioncode>
</setting> 


But I couldn't find the first section in vb_ad_management/global_start.php

PHP Code:

<setting varname="adintegrate_footer_adcode_rand" displayorder="45">
    <datatype>free</datatype>
    <optioncode>textarea</optioncode>
</setting> 


I suppose I'm making a mistake but where

The mistake was mine, you need to find that code in the plugin not global_start.php.

Originally Posted by tehPARADOX

Just to let you know, the current archive right now, doesn't include those instructions. Just comes with the Includes folder and the product.

And also for the postbit ads, displayed as user. Is there a way to change it back to legacy (vertical) rather then the horizontal way?

You'd have to edit the modification code, the ad postbit just matches the postbit you're using.

[milsirhc]

Okay,

So basically I copied the files over.. and I upgrade (by selecting overwriting the plugin) and that's about it ya? No other changes I need to made?

And also, i tried viewing my forum as guest and did 6 refresh, I still can't see the random sharing happening. My admin adsense code still appearing all 6 times but the thread starter and last poster did not.

I specified "50" for admin, "40" for thread starter and "10" for last poster. Am i doing something wrong here?

[RedTyger]

Hm, there seems to be something wrong with the % calculations. I'll take a look at this now, don't go anywhere...

[milsirhc]

ok! I'm staying right here, refreshing my screen non-stop!!

Thankssss!!!

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by milsirhc

ok! I'm staying right here, refreshing my screen non-stop!!

Thankssss!!!

Don't do that! Enable instant email notification for the thread.

Anyway, could you download the new zip file (3.11) and overwrite global_start.php with the version in the new zip. You do not need to alter anything else. Please let me know if it now works.

[milsirhc]

I'll give it a go! don't go anywhere! =P

[milsirhc]

Tried..

here's the findings:

Login as admin, the random code works perfectly fine but I can see the admin adcode and the threadstarter adcode randomly

Login as a normal user, the random thingy don't work, I can see the admin adcode only (or is it the user own one only) <- my admin and my own are the same.

Goes in as guest, I can only see the admin code and the random thingy don't work.

[milsirhc]

update:

login as normal user, can only see the admin code and the thread starter (which is not the same user) random thingy don't work.

[RedTyger]

Would you mind giving me admin access to your forum so I can see for myself? Preferably to also turn the forum off for a few minutes so I can poke around a bit. I can't reproduce your new problem on my forum, it should be working fine now.

[milsirhc]

pmed you. =)

Just to make it clear again:

Login as admin, the random code works perfectly fine but I can see the admin adcode and the threadstarter adcode randomly

login as normal user, can only see the admin code and the thread starter (which is not the same user) random thingy don't work.

Goes in as guest, I can only see the admin code and the random thingy don't work.