Forum Display Enhancements - vB Sponsors - Add a sponsors location to your site

What does this do?
This allows you to add sponsors to your site.

How does this install?
1) Install this product via Admincp => Plugins & Products => Manage Products
2) Edit your Admincp options via Admincp => vBulletin Options => vBulletin Options => vB Sponsors Settings
3) Add one or more wherever they will work.
$vbsponsors_marquee - Box with scrolling marquee (vertical - up)
$vbsponsors_marqueeh - Box with scrolling marquee (horizontal - left)
$vbsponsors_onecolumn - One column sponsor box (uses first 20)
$vbsponsors_twocolumn - Two column sponsor box (uses two columns; Column 1 uses 1-10, Column 2 uses 11-20)
$vbsponsors_threecolumn - Three column sponsor box (uses three columns; Column 1 uses 1-7, Column 2 uses 8-14, Column 3 uses 15-21)
$vbsponsors_fourcolumn - Four column sponsor box (uses four columns; Column 1 uses 1-5, Column 2 uses 6-10, Column 3 uses 11-15, etc.)
$vbsponsors_fivecolumn - Five column sponsor box (uses five columns; Column 1 uses 1-4, Column 2 uses 5-8, etc.)
$vbsponsors_sixcolumn - Six column sponsor box (uses six columns; Column 1 uses 1-3, Column 2 uses 4-6, etc.)

Currently I have it set up (in the screen shot) in the FORUMHOME template right above the <!-- what's going on box --> comment.

How does this work?
Edit your:
Sponsorbox Title
Usergroups
Column widths (for left, center, and right columns)
- 1 column uses the center column size
- 2 column uses the left and right column sizes
- 3 column uses all three column sizes
- 4 column uses 4 even column sizes (to set)
- 5 column uses 5 even column sizes (to set)
- Marquee uses 1 column size.
Height and width of image to be resized (you can use any image but it will be resized to the dimension you specify here - width must be smaller than column width).
Sponsor Title, Image, and Link
- Title is the title or caption of the image
- Image is the your image you want displayed (full http:// URL works best)
- Link is where you want the clicked image to go to

You can have up to 21 Titles, Images, and Links. See screenshot for more detail. If anyone would like to provide a demo, please PM me and I will add it here.

It has been pointed out to me that you may be able to use this in more than one location:
e.g. $vbsponsors_threecolumn in your FORUMHOME template, and $vbsponsors_onecolumn
in your sidebar/column if you use columns. I've not tested this but have had someone test this with success.

Release Notes:
Gold: No changes

RC1: Added 3 more column choices and a new horizontal marquee choice. Removed a couple options that didn't work.

Beta 4: Fixed 3 bugs.

Beta 3: Fixed 4 phrases that may have caused some confusion.
- Added a scrolling marquee (up) for scrolling and size purposes.

Beta 2: Fixed ability to enable/disable modification.
- Added function to give each column's images their own sizes (width and height) specific for that column.
- Added second admincp page to separate long list of options from long list of Titles, Images, and Links.

Beta 1: Initial Release

Ideas for future releases:
[s]One column marquee[/s] - Added in Beta 3

Pre-RC notes:

As this is Beta, I will support this but I am not responsible for issues outside of my control. If you would like to contribute to this and offer suggestions, please PM me and I will do my best to add/take in all suggestions for this modification as this can/does have potential. Aside from the bugs marked in the notes below, this beta is fully-functional.

I've classified this as Beta for these reasons:
1) I have more features planned for this
2) 2 features are present that may be developed further or may be removed as they currently do not serve a purpose.
[s]Enable vB Sponsors - does not currently work.[/s] - Fixed
Unphrased item with three options - very well might remove this - serves no purpose.
3) 2 features are present that are somewhat potentially useless and are considered as "extras" that I am unsure their outcome.

One final note. If you don't like this, don't use it - if you do, great!

[davidw]

Anytime - So far no bugs have been reported. I could just label this as Final or Gold now. The betas had bugs in it, but I'm pretty sure this one doesn't. Also, with the added features I put in through each beta, I wanted to wait until each had time for bugs were weaned before moving on. I will be adding more features, just when I get them ready. I just hadn't had time to change this to "Gold" or "Final" yet, even though it is ready.

[davidw]

Updated to 1.0.5 Gold version.

[ndut]

not showed, in our forum. why?

[davidw]

Under How does this install? which bolded part (starts with $vbsponsors_) did you use? Also, which template did you put it in?

[HabboLan]

I like this , im using the $vbsponsors_marqueeh , is there any way to make it wider , its about 4 inches , i have about 4 inches of blank space on each side of it

[davidw]

Currently, edit the width of the center column to make it wider/narrower.

[HabboLan]

Thanks , that worked great

[manguish]

Anyone elses admincp options not showing once installed?

[Cybershaolin]

This is a very nice hack. Thanks for it.

Some suggestions:

A) I wish I could use different sets or blocks of banners in order to show them at different places of my forum (because although we can use different variables it always use the same set of banners).

Example:

1- I have one set of 6 banners that I would like to see on each forum page (like putting the variable in navbar)

2- I have another set of 8 banners (different than the ones in point 1) that I would like to only show on forumdisplay

3- I have another set of 4 smaller banners (different than the ones in points 1 and 2) that I would like to show between posts in the forum

All of them would rotate.

B) A click management system

C) Support "Flash" Banners

D) Finally, expiry dates for showing the banners (starting and ending dates) linked with a subscription system (Once a vendor selects the option they want, and the length of time they want from the drop down menu, they should be given the opportunity to upload a banner. Either by way of URL or by browsing their computer files. This banner upload feature can be before or after payment).

That would be the best Rotating Banner System to my point of view!

Some of the options exist on Cyb Rotating banner system but the problem with his mod is that it only shows at the same place. It onle rotates one set of banner.

Many features are present or so on different hacks but I can't manage to find a real banner system than would contain all these features and fits my own needs.

[Cybershaolin]

Any follow-up on the suggestions?

What about having the possibility to shuffle the banners when using the $vbsponsors_marqueeh variable? Actually, it always display the banners in the same order... It would be nice to have this to show the banners in a random order when we use this variable.