Rotating Ad Module in VB 5

**glennrocksvb** · Mon 9 Jun '14, 11:19pm

Isn't that done through the ad provider settings and not vBulletin?

**Zachery** · Tue 10 Jun '14, 1:41am

That's not how the ad module works. The ad module shows whichever ads you have selected to show. If you want rotating ads you should look into a third party software to properly handle ad management.

**Ageurtse** · Tue 10 Jun '14, 12:05pm

see how i did it.

and in the advertisment code i have this .

Code:

<center><iframe src='/advertisement/index.html'  Margin-left='auto' margin-right='auto' scrolling='no'  width='500' height='60'></iframe></center>

for a live demo check www.reefersquest.com

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**glennrocksvb** · Fri 27 Jun '14, 11:01pm

Originally posted by Ageurtse

see how i did it. and in the advertisment code i have this .

Code:

<center><iframe src='/advertisement/index.html'  Margin-left='auto' margin-right='auto' scrolling='no'  width='500' height='60'></iframe></center>

for a live demo check www.reefersquest.com [ATTACH]temp_63835_1402430744087_32[/ATTACH]

But it's normally against their TOS to put ads in an iframe.

**Ageurtse** · Sat 28 Jun '14, 10:13pm

What do you mean with tos?

**glennrocksvb** · Mon 30 Jun '14, 10:00am

Originally posted by Ageurtse

What do you mean with tos?

Terms of Service. Check their terms of service to see if putting ads on iframe is allowed or not.

**hs4x4** · Tue 1 Jul '14, 8:46am

Here is what I ended up doing. Paste the text below into the Ad html field. Change the pic links to your pics. There isn't much intelligence as its just random out of the three options but it works. I just wanted to rotate through a set list randomly.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var MaxAds = 2
var AdNumber
var ThisAd = new Array()

ThisAd[0] = '<img src="http://www.highsierra4x4.com/media/wysiwyg/Banner_Ad3.jpg" border="0">'
ThisAd[1] = '<img src="http://www.highsierra4x4.com/media/wysiwyg/Banner_Ad2.jpg" border="0">'
ThisAd[2] = '<img src="http://highsierra4x4.com/media/wysiwyg/Banner_Ad1.jpg" border="0">'
</script>

<BODY>
<center>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
AdNumber = Math.round(Math.random() * MaxAds)
document.write(ThisAd[AdNumber])
</script>
</center>
</BODY>

**glennrocksvb** · Thu 3 Jul '14, 12:51am

That code needs improvement but at least the <body> </body> tags should be removed.

**hs4x4** · Sat 12 Jul '14, 11:51am

The code may not be sexy but it works for a random banner presentation.

**Ageurtse** · Sun 13 Jul '14, 9:19pm

And how can i put a link with this picture.
Can this just be done by placing < a href="..."> </a> around the image tag's ?

and how to autoload after x seconds the next banner.

**voclain** · Thu 31 Jul '14, 2:54pm

I want in on this discussion......

Here is what I have pasted into my BANNER AD section at the very top of my forum in the HEADER section:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var MaxAds = 2
var AdNumber
var ThisAd = new Array()

ThisAd[0] = '<a href="http://www.kvphoto.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fiip.net/images/kvban1_lg.jpg" alt="Kirk Voclain Photography MODELS WANTED" border="0"></a>'
ThisAd[1] = '<a href="http://www.kvphoto.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fiip.net/images/kvban2_lg.jpg" alt="Kirk Voclain Photography High School Senors WANTED" border="0"></a>'
</script>

<center>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
AdNumber = Math.round(Math.random() * MaxAds)
document.write(ThisAd[AdNumber])
</script>
</center>

I currently have 2 banners just for testing.....and I hope to have HUNDREDS soon....but I'll settle for 10

First question:

Do I just keep adding:

ThisAd[3]
ThisAd[4]
ThisAd[5]

And so on and so on????

Next QUESTION/Problem.......with the 2 I have as you see it above....sometimes when I refresh the page I get "UNDEFINED" in the banner space...and nothing shows up....what do I need to ADD or SUBTRACT from the script to make it NOT do that???

Thank you for all your help!!!!

Yours,

Kirk

**hs4x4** · Sat 16 Aug '14, 9:07am

Yes you can just keep adding ThisAd[]s. Remember to change the number of the MaxAds to reflect how many you have. Not sure on the "Undefined"

I am working on another script that actually pulls the info from a table, instead of you spelling it all out in the script. Ideally, you would populate the table with the Link, Image info and the MaxAds would be equal to how many entries are in the table. This way you could put this banner script on multiple pages, templates and only have to update the table for them all to work correctly.

***** UPDATE *****

The reason you are getting the undefined is because you only have two entrys and you left the MaxAds=2. With two entries it should be MaxAds=1.

Rotating Ad Module in VB 5

Rotating Ad Module in VB 5

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