LFMTE mods
The Traffic Exchange Script (LFMTE) script enhancements.
Mods are licensed per domain and prices are in US dollars.
The license is valid for the lifetime of the mod (no repeat billing) and includes any updates.
These mods require the cURL extension to be enabled on your server.
cURL is a required extension for LFMTE, so this should not be a problem.
You can check that cURL is enabled by opening the View Advanced Server/PHP Info link
at the bottom of the 'Settings - System Settings' page and searching for curl.
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| Mod name | Description | Version | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| compsmod | Competitions mod. | 1.5 | $147.00 | Getting a make over. |
| sqbanmod | Square banner add-in mod | 1.5 | $147.00 | Getting a make over. |
| pawidget | Members ads pending approval widget | 1.5 | $47.00 | Getting a make over. |
| loginlogseasrch | Per member login log display mod & widget | 1.5 | $47.00 | Getting a make over. |
| ccwidget | Member Credit/Impression Stats widget | 2.1 | $47.00 | Available for purchase. |
| qswidget | Member quick search widget | 1.5 | $0.00 | Available for download. |
| autoassign | Auto-assign views mod | 0.5 | $127.00 | Testing @ Traffic Exchange Results. |
| 2manyads | Members with too many ads | 0.5 | $47.00 | Testing @ Traffic Exchange Results. |
| testimonials | Member testimonials. | 0.5 | $25.00 | Testing @ Traffic Exchange Results. |
| surficonr | Surf icon calendar. | 0.1 | $25.00 | In development. |
| adclear | Remove deleted members ads. | 0.1 | $25.00 | In development. |
Square banner add-in mod.
This mod requires the LFMTE Square Banners add-in. It will not work if you haven't purchased and installed the add-in.
The mod does not modify the add-in. It runs beside the add-in using the same sqban_iplog database table.
The mod was developed because
- The method the original add-in uses to display banners causes the same banner to be selected multiple times. The faster the server, the more obvious the problem.
- The method the original add-in uses to display banners also made it impossible to locate a banner you saw in rotation because the banner id is not used when displaying the banner.
This mod uses a different method to select a number of banners to display which makes it impossible to display the same banner more than once (unless you have fewer banners with credits assigned than you are going to display - in which case, impressions are not subtracted for additional displays).
It is still possible to see the same image more than once, but the images are from different advertisements.
Both the add-in and the mod select the banners to display by selecting the banner with credits assigned which was displayed longer ago than all other banners. So banners are typically displayed in the order they were added to the database. If one person adds the same image twice, or if two members add the same image, and this happens at about the same time, those two images will often appear in the same banner block.
The mod also uses the bannerid for the image so, if you see a banner in circulation with a broken image link or inappropriate content, hovering the mouse over the banner will show you the id. This makes it easy to find the banner in the database.
I have also allowed some customisation of the block of banners, and to save different block 'styles'. Once a style has been saved, it can be used in different layouts by changing the variables that are passed to pt56ok_showsqban.php.
And, because I was making those changes
I have added the option to allow members to earn credits by displaying banner blocks on their web sites. This can be disabled if you don't wish to offer it. To see this demonstrated, log on to Traffic Exchange Results and check the 'Results Boosters - Auto-earn credits' page.
- Credits can be awarded per banner shown, or per block of banners shown. Only unique views are credited. You can set how many views are considered unique within a number of hours from an ip address. Keep in mind, a blog site may have numerous pages displaying blocks of banners so multiple views for one IP is possible. Views which aren't unique do not deduct impressions.
- You can set a maximum number of credits per view. For example, if you are offering credits per banner displayed and a member creates a massive block of banners, you may want to limit the number of credits.
- You can set the number of styles each membership is able to save.
- How many credits per view can be displayed or hidden in the members area.
- If you think a member is cheating, members can be excluded from earning credits. If a member is excluded, banners they display do not have impressions subtracted.
- In testing mode, impressions are not deducted from displayed banners
Installation: Download installer, unzip and run. Exactly the same as the LFM script installs.
Site changes:- New files uploaded
- pt56ok_install_sqbannercodegenerator.php
uploaded to the root folder of your site. Can be deleted after install is completed. - pt56ok_sqbannercodegenerator.php
uploaded to /
used for both admin and members - pt56ok_showsqban.php
uploaded to /
Displays the block of square banners. - pt56ok_macros.php
uploaded to /
adds the squarebannerblock macro for use in templates. - sqbancron.php
uploaded to /pt56ok/
removes old log entries from database
- pt56ok_install_sqbannercodegenerator.php
- Existing files modified
None. - Database table structures modified
None. - Database tables added
- pt56ok_sqbansettings
- pt56ok_sqbancodegenerator
- pt56ok_sqbanlog
- Database tables modified
- oto_adminmenu
Adds a Pete's mods Admin menu item if it's not already installed and adds the Square Banner code generator menu item.
Optionally also adds a 'Check crons' item to the menu which runs /admin/croncheck.php to display the current state of the site cron jobs. - oto_extra_funcs
Adds pt56ok_macros.php to the list of functions so the macro can be converted to a banner block - oto_cronjobs
Adds cron job if not already installed to check for updates
- oto_adminmenu
Admin mod configuration.
Admin generating the code to display a block of banners.
Admin banner display statistics.
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