How to Place Ads After the First Post in a phpBB Topic?
May 21, 2008 in Questions and Answers
Have you ever been reading a phpBB forum when all of a sudden you were confronted with an advertisement after reading a post? An ad so cleverly situated you just had to take the time to notice it and give it a click just out of respect for how it was delivered so sneakily to you after you finished reading something useful rather than before… If you had not finished reading the post because it wasn’t any good you would have never seen the ad. By placing ads after the first post in a topic in phpBB you are displaying your sponsors only after having earned the right to do so rather than bombarding visitors right away. You are also increasing the chance that your ad gets noticed.
That being said, how the heck do you actually do it?
First, open up “viewforum_body.html”. If you are using the prosilver theme you can find this file here:
styles/prosilver/template/viewforum_body.html
Now search that file for the following text:
<!-- END postrow -->
Right before the line above, paste the following code into the file:
<!– IF postrow.S_FIRST_ROW –>
<div class=”post bg2″>
<div class=”inner”><span class=”corners-top”><span></span></span><div class=”postbody”>
<h3>Sponsor</h3><div class=”content” style=”text-align: center;”>
THE CODE FOR YOUR AD GOES HERE
</div>
</div><dl class=”postprofile” id=”profile0000″>
<dt>
<strong><u>Featured Sites</u></strong>
</dt><dd><a href=”http://www.looble.org”>Looble… Looble!</a></dd>
<dd><a href=”http://battlecity.org/”>Battle City</a></dd>
<dd><a href=”http://www.software-engineer-training.com/”>Software Engineer Training</a></dd>
</dl><div class=”back2top”><a href=”#wrap” class=”top” title=”{L_BACK_TO_TOP}”>{L_BACK_TO_TOP}</a></div>
<span class=”corners-bottom”><span></span></span></div>
</div>
<hr class=”divider” />
<!– ENDIF –>
Make sure you place your ad code where I have bolded text above. Upload your new file and you are set! Out of love, we highly recommend you at least keep the Software Engineer Training link as one of your featured sites.
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