Integration of phpadsnew with vb3

[Super Ted]

Has anyone tried it. If so, how easy was it?

[Jake Bunce]

You might get a better response on www.vbulletin.org, the official vB hacking site. We deal mostly with the default software here, not hacks.

[conqsoft]

Very easy.

Step 1
Create a banner.php file that contains only the PHP code to show the banner (generated by phpAdsNew), enclosed in <% %>.

Step 2
In your phpinclude_start template, put:

ob_start();
require("/full/path/to/your/file/banner.php");
$mybanner= ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Step 3
In your header template, or wherever you want the banner to appear, put:

$mybanner

[Super Ted]

Say I want several different banners can I just repeat that code and change $mybanner to $mybanner2 like below?

ob_start();
require("/full/path/to/your/file/banner2.php");
$mybanner2= ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Thanks.

[RocketDawg]

Conqsoft,

I have tried your method above, and have run into a snag:

I created a php file called banner3.php :

<?php
if ( $foruminfo[title] == "" )
if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
$phpAds_raw = view_raw ('National', 0, '_blank', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
}
else
if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
$phpAds_raw = view_raw ('$foruminfo[title]', 0, '_blank', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
}
?>

Then, in phpinclude_start

ob_start();
require("ads/banner3.php");
$mybanner= ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Then, in the header template, I placed:

$mybanner

My Problem / question:

The first part of the IF stmt validates, ie it displays the "national" banner. The "else" part does not work however. Nothing displays at all.
Is the $foruminfo[title] field even available in header template?

Do you have any ideas why this doesn't work? I am not a programmer, I have gotten all this from reading, and PHP for dummies. I would appreciate any insight that you may have.

Thanks in advance.

[TheMusicMan]

I don't understand!! You don't need to amend any php files, all you need to do is to include the banner script generated by phpAdsNew into one of your template files. I have mine in the header and footer templates and it delivers ads fine.

[RocketDawg]

I need to do the if stmt for the header banner, in order for the banner to be forum specific.

Since the header template wont accept php, you have to do it outside, correct?

[conqsoft]

I need to do the if stmt for the header banner, in order for the banner to be forum specific.

Since the header template wont accept php, you have to do it outside, correct?

Then you need to have two different banner.php files and do your IF inside the vbulletin template; loading whichever one you want.

The code inside banner.php won't be aware of any vBulletin variables, so you can't do the comparison there.

[RocketDawg]

But how can you do an "if" stmt in the header, if the header template wont accept php?


Will the header template accept it if I insert

<?php

if.. blah blah

?>

[TheMusicMan]

I'm no expert, but the header template accepts vB if conditionals and can easily check for a specific forum.

[RocketDawg]

any chance you could give me a short example to get me started?

[Jake Bunce]

any chance you could give me a short example to get me started?

An example to check for a forum?

<if condition="$forumid == X">
	CODE HERE
</if>

Where X is the forumid of the forum for which you want to check.

[RocketDawg]

Thank you Jake, I will play with it for a while now and see what I can come up with. Just to check my syntax,

<if condition="$forumid == ">
CODE HERE
</if>

Will that check for a blank forum id #?

[Jake Bunce]

Use this code to check for "no forumid":

<if condition="!$forumid">
	CODE HERE
</if>

A forumid is defined on all of the main pages within a forum (forumdisplay, showthread, newthread, newreply).

[RocketDawg]

Perfect, that is what I needed. The point is that on the main index page, there is no forum ID, and there I wish to display one set of banners, and then inside the forums, I wish to display a different set of banners.


I will come back later and post up if I am successful, because I have seen many similar questions.

Thanks Jake and all.