phpbb trick for including google adsense into articles/posts

New Member Joined: Dec 07, 2003 Posts: 22 Location: USA

OPEN VIEWTOPIC.PHP

FIND:

Code:




//


// Start initial var setup


//

BEFORE ADD:

Code:




$adblocktext = <<<EOM


<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>


Insert your Google AdSense Code Here


</td></tr>


<tr><td class="spaceRow" colspan="2" height="1"><img


src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif"


alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>


</tr>


EOM;

FIND:

Code:




//


// Okay, let's do the loop, yeah come on baby let's do the loop


// and it goes like this ...


//


for($i = 0; $i < $total_posts; $i++)


{

AFTER ADD:

Code:




if ($i=="0") {


$adblock = $adblocktext;


} else {


$adblock = "";


}

FIND:

Code:




$template->assign_block_vars('postrow', array(


'ROW_COLOR' => '#' . $row_color,


'ROW_CLASS' => $row_class,

AFTER ADD:

Code:




'AD_BLOCK' => $adblock,

SAVE FILE

OPEN VIEWTOPIC_BODY.TPL

FIND:

Code:




<!-- END postrow -->

BEFORE ADD:

Code:




{postrow.AD_BLOCK}

SAVE FILE

Now your forums will insert whatever you wish after the first post. And yes, you can insert Javascript.

Enjoy! Remember too many google ads can be annoying to members.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

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Hangin' Around Joined: Aug 15, 2005 Posts: 46

that's a good trick, but I'm trying to do do this to the news articles and not forums posts. I hope you have a cure for that too. Smile

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:46 pm

gstrategic wrote:

that's a good trick, but I'm trying to do do this to the news articles and not forums posts. I hope you have a cure for that too. Smile

If you are referring to this article [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] we have demonstrated how to do it. The code works. If it is not working at your site then it's a problem either with how you coded it or something else is interferring with it, but the code does work.

Client Joined: Sep 18, 2004 Posts: 62

Raven,

How did you insert the google search and adsense up top of the forums? I'd like to do that too

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:06 pm

am I banned?? testing...

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:08 pm

whew...I posted some adsense section targeting code and it said I was banned. since I am not, I was going to ask what file and where do I edit to implement section targeting as described on this site?
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I am guessing config.php?

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:15 pm

You insert that code in different files that display content. config.php does not so that is not a good one. For example, I add it to theme.php to get it to show on every page. Then, I inserted it into a couple of templates to show it elsewhere in the forums.