::How to:: Ad Placement in Pligg

[kapengbarako]

Originally Posted by jon

Yeah, I dig it man. Got a rarely used account. I use netscape more, so will netscape it!

On question though - the whole "if" thing led me to want to try new things. I would like to set a banner which will show depending on words in other parts of the URL. i.e. at the end, or anywhere, so e.g.

if bodybuilding appears anywhere in the URL, then show a bodybuilding banner.

How is that done? The code seems to only look at the first word in the URL (i.e. search, index, story).

Anyway, I also made the same mistake with the " and ' I tried to mention on the blog but my message was poorly formatted! ( I see it has been cleaned up!)

The Netscape page:
http://diy.netscape.com/story/2007/0...ement-tutorial

THe Digg page:
http://www.digg.com/programming/Plig...ement_Tutorial

i think you're request will require a more thorough programming/modification of the code. honestly, can't figure out how will it be =)

nevertheless, you can still use Adsense. just limit it to images (and not text links) so that it will show images related to your content

[jon]

Nevermind then, I'll live without that for now. Was a nice idea though.

[Critter183]

I did a little tinkering today. I enabled adsense revshare and I wanted that to work in conjunction with my adsense ads in my header.tpl.

The following code displays my site logo on the left and uses my AdSense ID on all pages except the story page of any of my users who have plugged in their own ID, where we will split the ad exposure at the default 50/50 for now:

PHP Code:

Line 36:</div>
<!-- My mods begin here -->

<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"><tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/templates/yget/images/logo.jpg" alt="My Logo" />
</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">
{if $pagename eq 'index' || $pagename eq 'search' || $pagename eq 'upcoming'}
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel = "xxxxxxxxx";
google_color_border = "ffffff";
google_color_bg = "ffffff";
google_color_link = "E1771E";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "940F04";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
{elseif $pagename eq 'story'}
{adsense assign=users_adsense}
{if $users_adsense}
    <script type="text/javascript"><!--
        google_ad_client = "{$google_adsense_id}";
        google_alternate_ad_url = "";
        google_ad_width = 728;
        google_ad_height = 90;
        google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
        google_ad_type = "text";
        google_ad_channel ="{$google_adsense_channel}";
        google_color_border = "ffffff";
        google_color_bg = "ffffff";
        google_color_link = "E1771E";
        google_color_text = "000000";
        google_color_url = "940F04";
        //-->
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript"
      src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
    </script>
    {else}
    <script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel = "xxxxxxxxx";
google_color_border = "ffffff";
google_color_bg = "ffffff";
google_color_link = "E1771E";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "940F04";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
{/if}
{/if}
</td></tr></table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<!-- My mods end here -->

<div id="cab"> 


The mods begin after line 36 in header.tpl of the yget template. Replace "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in two instances in this mod with your google adsense ID.

Replace the "xxxxxxxx" in two instances of "google_ad_channel ="xxxxxxxxx";" with your ad channel ID or remove the x's and leave empty if you don't use channels. I set up a few channels at google adsense so I can see if clicks are coming from my ads on story pages or on published or upcoming pages.

Do not edit "google_ad_client = "{$google_adsense_id}";" or "google_ad_channel ="{$google_adsense_channel}";" as those are related to your users' adsense ID and channel.

I tested it pretty thorougly tonight and it works just dandy. :)

[Hellevator]

Why is it that when using this technique on sidebar.tpl it says to put {literal} inside of the if conditional but on pligg.tpl it does not say to do this. Why is this? What does {literal} do?

[paulocon]

Anyone know if there is code available for the yget template for displaying ads in the sidebar?

[ashepp]

I'd also appreciate an update to the tutorial that outlines how to integrate adsense with the Yget Template.

Thanks in advance.
Adam.

[onelessthang]

For adding adsense to the sidebar and header in yget reference this thread.

how to add a logo and Google AdSense like this

Hope this helps.


For a demo of how I have implemented in on my 'playing around with pligg site' check out

gordonkeithwannabe.com - be careful though some of the content is not safe for work(for 'bad' language reasons')


Be Well,
OneLessThang

[paulocon]

Which thread?

[onelessthang]

Sorry forgot the link

how to add a logo and Google AdSense like this

[kapengbarako]

I have created another tutorial, now for the Yget template.
Read it here: http://www.maranan.us/archives/pligg...yget-template/