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Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:28 am
by pawmarks
Can anyone point me to the instructions for disabling any and all advertising in the modphpbb3 portal install?
Thanks!
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:46 pm
by LDM
Hello Pawmarks,
Open Overall_footer.html in your template, and remove the include at the bottom. Upload file and refresh template cache in admin.
See
HERE
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:17 pm
by pawmarks
found the overall_footer.html (lowercase "o" ?) and removed the first statement:
<span class="corners-bottom">
but not the 2nd one - referring back to phpbb group
uploaded
purged cache in admin
no effect on the ads
also, aren't there ads running elsewhere than the bottom footer? such as inside the main forum?
not sure what the "ad manager" is about - can't find a mod for that (if in fact, it is a mod)
there isn't a GUIDE (aka written docs) for this portal is there? sure be nice to READ something about how it all works! (smiling)
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:35 pm
by LDM
The corners are nothing to do with it, you just simply remove this line
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<-- include ad_banner_footer.html -->
from Overall Footer, re-upload file and refresh templates.
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:50 pm
by pawmarks
LDM wrote:The corners are nothing to do with it, you just simply remove this line
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<-- include ad_banner_footer.html -->
from Overall Footer, re-upload file and refresh templates.
i gotta be BLIND today. not seeing that statement anywhere. only TWO statements of any import in the overall_footer file - one about the corners and one about powered by phpBB - nothing else.
maybe there is more than one overall_footer.html file? can't find one on search. or, like i said, i'm blind
attaching the file in question if that helps - sorry for being such a PITA!
oops - cant attach html - sorry! file was in the beta portal archive under \upload\adm\style
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:03 pm
by LDM
you need to be looking in the styles/prosilver (or whatever style you are using)/template/overall_footer.html
remove that include, reupload, then go to acp - styles - templates - refresh
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:15 pm
by pawmarks
I'm using 360elite found on the main phpbb3 styles site, and the overall_footer.html file found in that style archive has nothing about ad_banner_footer that I can detect.
It also doesn't contain the file ad_banner_footer.html according to my search of the style archive...that's why I was fumbling around in the adm dir structure
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:24 pm
by LDM
The include won't appear in that file then as it's a style ready for a vanilla phpBB not a ModphpBB3 install.
So if you are using that style, you won't actually see ad's anyway. I thought you were asking how to remove them for prosilver/subsilver/an edited style.
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:27 pm
by pawmarks
LDM wrote:The include won't appear in that file then as it's a style ready for a vanilla phpBB not a ModphpBB3 install.
So if you are using that style, you won't actually see ad's anyway. I thought you were asking how to remove them for prosilver/subsilver/an edited style.
Yes, I wasn't sure 360elite would function with the portal modded version, but it seems just fine. except for showing ads (which I've NEVER seen it do in vanilla phpbb3 installations)
sure looks like ads to me....aren't you seeing them? (smiling)
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:29 pm
by LDM
So I take it you have added the edits to that style as that isn't actually in the downloads here.
I've never seen that style edited for modphpbb3, where did you download it?
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:44 pm
by pawmarks
LDM wrote:So I take it you have added the edits to that style as that isn't actually in the downloads here.
I've never seen that style edited for modphpbb3, where did you download it?
haven't touched the style. not one edit. appears to work perfectly with vanilla bb3 or modbb3.
downloaded straight from the demo site:
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:46 pm
by LDM
It must be inheriting the overall footer from prosilver then.
If you open overall footer in prosilver and remove that inclue, upload the refresh template cache, it will disappear.
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:07 pm
by pawmarks
LDM wrote:It must be inheriting the overall footer from prosilver then.
If you open overall footer in prosilver and remove that include, upload the refresh template cache, it will disappear.
hmm, maybe that statement is in your prosilver overall_footer.html file but it sure isn't in mine (nothing in subsilver2 either)
and yes, mine are STOCK downloads from
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:11 pm
by LDM
You are running ModphpBB3?
Can you paste in your overall_footer.html inside code tags here.
Re: Disabling ALL Advertising
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:13 pm
by LDM
Also, phpbb.com don't you mean?