Ads..?

[Abronsyth]

Okay, this has really been confusing me, what the heck is the ads feature for..? What does it do? How does it function?

[Hall of Famer]

As far as I know, the ads dont do anything lol. It was an old feature carried over from Rusnak Adoptables, and I havent really touched it much. If you request it, I may end up revising the ads system a little bit so it can display an image link at the footer.

[Abronsyth]

Ah, I see ^_^ I was just trying to figure out what the heck it did XD

[Hall of Famer]

No problem, it really doesnt do much. If you are with a free host or shared host they probably have their own ads on your site lol.

[Abronsyth]

I tired it out but nothing actually changes from what I can tell...ad never showed up show *shrug* It's not really a feature I'd use, at this point in time. Though one can't help but wonder how it was actually supposed to function...

[Hall of Famer]

The reason why it never shows up is that current themes do not use the placeholder :AD:(or :ADS:) on the template file.

[Inf3rnal]

I know why it doesn't work.

When say you place the html code for the ad like:

<img>ad.png</img> or whatever. When the Admin Panel places that code into the ad database it changes the < and > into <.; and >.; (Minus the red period) and that breaks the image so it doesn't display.

To fix it you have to manually access your database from say PHPMYADMIN and insert it there or set it up so the text box doesn't convert html characters.

[Hall of Famer]

Interesting, I thought it was all because the ad placeholder is not being used in the template file, seems that theres more to it. Anyway, its not like people have been asking much about the ads system before. I will make sure its working in Mys v1.3.3 though, since it is part of the footer widget.

[Inf3rnal]

Yeah it works perfectly fine other then that I use it on my dev site for Google Adsense.

[Tequila]

Hm, I knew I was forgetting some things in the themes... ;3 Oh well, I don't like ads all that much myself.

[Hall of Famer]

Actually ads can be useful from time to time, a good way to make use of it is to have an affiliate site in which you and your partner exchange site links. Of course those running adsense will probably find it useful too, but it takes a real big site to make decent money.