>>--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.

[RetroDreams]

For those of you who have this installed... is this working well for you? I'm tempted to install, but need to verify that it works well and without sacrificing the speed of my site.

Comments and feedback appreciated.

[RetroDreams]

Trafix,

I installed your hack without any problems. I made the edits as posted on page 1 to eliminate the extra queries (as I have many forums) - so now everything works semi-okay.

I don't get any banners in the Forumdisplay and showthread pages at all when I use the tag in my $header template as opposed to in the actual page after the $header... Why is that? I'd really prefer it this way so the design of my page wouldn't be compromised.

Also, the banner is in the bannerbank. How could I mod it so this could be done?

http://www.basketballboards.net/forum/images/wanted.gif - How I want it to look.

http://www.basketballboards.net/foru...s/unwanted.gif - How it looks.

[Koutaru]

I would also like something for the header before I install this

BTW, how many queries does this add? Oo;?

[solent]

Yesterday at 12:59 AM RetroDreams said this in Post #81
For those of you who have this installed... is this working well for you? I'm tempted to install, but need to verify that it works well and without sacrificing the speed of my site.

Comments and feedback appreciated.

dude traffix is your man. i have it installed and it works like a charm. no problems at all. it doesnt slow my boards, and i must say is one of the coolest hacks i have install in my boards. if you need to have ads and using banners in your vb this is the best one. have try them all. have even try 3rd party but this one. omg it owns especially the administration you have.

i would recommend installing this one 100%

[Anjie]

I installed, and I must say it is simply awesome. I did remove the sponsored by under the names on forumhome, but that was more for asthetics than anything else. It did not slow the forum down at all.
The one thing that I did notice is that unless you specify a banner for a forum, the banner bank will show the last banner you put into the bank the most. 75% of the time or more. I would love to see the banners rotate within a page view rather than on page load and randomized.
Other than that, once a banner is specified to a forum it works like a charm! One of the absolute best I must say. We've actually had an advertiser tell us they even liked it! Doesn't get much better than that.
I did some changing of font colors and the like, but nothing really to change the program on its own merits. All in all a 5 star program for sure!
If you would like to see this program in action working quite well, here it is: http://www.theladiesconnection.com/v...load/index.php just click on any forum, and there it will be.
Also one of the absolute best for support and assistance around! Can't say enough about this program and the creator!! :banana:

[vB-Host.com]

trafix, can this be used as a footer banner throughout one's site?

[trafix]

Sorry, I havnt responded sooner guys!

Firstly, thanks for your raves

@ vb-host

Year sure you can put them at the top and the bottom if you want!

Its just a matter if where you put the strings "$showthisad" and "$showthisad2"

@ RetroDreams

Sorry i mis-understood your earlier point.
NO, banners dont self rotate in forums, i left this out on purpose as it realy guves advertising clients fasle stats. say somebody is surfing around your site and the phone rings ... he is talking for an hour, your window is still open but he might bo off elsewhere doing other things on the internet .... what happens...the banners still rotate and clock up the impressions .... but the guy on the phone isnt looking at it. it is my opionion that this provides you advertisers with fasle stats.

I intend to do a version 2 of this in the future, but I have spent the last 2 weeks on my VB Trader hack and stage i is so close to being released, i cant wait (its bloody huge)

[RetroDreams]

No, I wasn't talking about rotating... I just wanted to know why I couldn't use it in the header as opposed to not in the header? The ads don't show up when I place the $showthisad in the header... it's just blank.

See my pictures for what I'm talking about.

[Guidster]

Ok, first off, great hack! I think this is probably one of the finest hacks yet! Simple, elegant and EXTREMELY effective. Thanks.

Guidster clicks install!!

[Guidster]

Trafix,
I sent you a PM about the possibility of integrating Arrow Ads into the Xenon/Skuzzy search engine spider archive to take advantage of the product exposure this would make possible.

Anyone else share this thought that it would be a excellent place to capitalize on the raw traffic brought to the site by the search engines and spiders? On my forums, this would mean that a couple of thousand unique visitors would view the ad and mostly unregistered traffic at that!