Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

HowdA All.

From the makers of Hydrogen comes the latest mack - GAB (Geek Advertising Banners).

This has come about by needing an advertising system that no other hack seemed to totally fulfill. Personally - I really didnt want to burden myself with supporting another hack - but I felt it was significantly better than other hack systems out there so I thought many would be able to benefit from it.

Whats so freaking cool about it?

1- use flash, normal, text based (google adsense) or rotating banners
2- Decide which scripts run the banners
3- Define which forums run the banners
4- define which usergroups can turn off the banners
5- Make ads stop at x amount of hits
6- Make ads stop at x amount of views
7- Make ads start/stop at certain times
8- track views and/or hits
9- Wipes your bum

Why am I releasing this now? It seems to be hip and trendy to release Banner hacks. In all reality - this has been a very long work in progress that is finally rounding the finsihing stages. The current RC pacakge is considered complete except for the show stats segment (its recording stats, but you cant browse them easily yet).

LIke with any hack (especially a Beta) back up you DB and files needing change (global.php,admincp/index.php).

Known issues:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

For users of GAB Beta 2, uninstall it and then install this version. In all reality, you could just revert the file changes and delete the GAB_ tables from yur DB (heck, you dont even need to do that).

To upgrade from RC1.5 to RC1.6, just replace existing files with the latest from the downloaded package and run the template portion of the installer (you can skip the rest of the install steps). You may have to revert your GUSH_main and GUSH_ad_row

Donations

I have never asked for donations for any of the macks I have done - however since I have spent well over 60 hours coding this - I thought I would stick my neck out there. If you like my mack, it brings you some money and you want to keep my fridge stocked with beer and Cheetos, then feel free to drop some cash in my paypal account: geek@thenailgeek.com
If youre having difficulty keeping beer in the fridge yourself - fill yours before you fill mine.
If you think the mack sucks, or youre just a tight git then please dont bother

nJoy

[Lionel]

Ucash integration. Points for clicking would be good too. Users can click as many times they want, but get points only once every 24 hours per banner click.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Lionel

Ucash integration. Points for clicking would be good too. Users can click as many times they want, but get points only once every 24 hours per banner click.

I would see that as more of an add on. I really only focus on making hacks for my site. I dont use ucash so someone else would need to bolt that on.

As far as your other suggestion - that is in the plan. I am getting there

[lasto]

uploaded - ads seems to work but when clicking on em they go to a blank page with the following url

javascript:gotoAd();

thats it and page not displayed

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by lasto

uploaded - ads seems to work but when clicking on em they go to a blank page with the following url

javascript:gotoAd();

thats it and page not displayed

Thanks lasto - think I got to the bottom of it (and a really annoying frequency error). download, replace all files, run the installer.
Then make sure that you have frequencies set. THere was a bug in the previous version that would eat them at any opportunity.

BTW - you will then have to revert your GAB_ad_rotating template

[danhaga]

Ok i now have this installed correctly and its working great.. add show up where i want them and they link to where they should...

question.. can i remove the part under the ad that says "want to advertise with us" and "learn how to get rid of these ads?"

if so how? right now those links dont work but i wouldnt want them anyway

thanks

[The Geek]

Just edit the GAB_ad templates and remove them

[lasto]

everything works and ive done the update but the url i specify for the banner when clicking it always goes to a weird page.

Gab redirect etc but stays there as a page not found - yet the url i specify is valid.

[Nordinho]

Originally Posted by lasto

everything works and ive done the update but the url i specify for the banner when clicking it always goes to a weird page.

Gab redirect etc but stays there as a page not found - yet the url i specify is valid.

very...very interesting, especially if you can get the userside to work (clients buying ad space/packages and uploading their own banners and being able to change them afterwards and view their statistics etc...) Great work sofar!!

[reteep]

After updating from B1:

Ungueltige SQL-Abfrage: SELECT * FROM GAB_packages ORDER BY ordinal,title,id asc
mysql error: Table 'd00007_forum.GAB_packages' doesn't exist

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by stormblast

After updating from B1:

stormblast - run the install script

lasto - you need to stick http:// now in front of the ad url whereas you didnt before.

HTHs