Adsense inside the first post of a topic

Description: This little hack will add adsense inside the first post of each topic.

Version: 1.0

Added on: 04 May 2007

Author: floppy

Difficulty Level: Difficult

Views: 516

Rating: 2.0 (1 Vote)

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This requires edits to the following files

viewtopic.php
viewtopic_body.tpl

BE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR FILES

In modules/Forums/viewtopic.php find

Code:

//         // Handle anon users posting with usernames         //

above add
Note: your adsense code will need to replace mine below.

Code:

//adsense if($i == 0 && $current_page == 1)   { $adsense = "<td align='center'><div align='center' valign='middle'><script type=\"text/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"pub-0139055847498612\"; google_ad_width = 250; google_ad_height = 250; google_ad_format = \"250x250_as\"; google_ad_type = \"text_image\"; google_ad_channel = \"\"; google_color_border = \"9EAEB6\"; google_color_bg = \"9EAEB6\"; google_color_link = \"000000\"; google_color_text = \"FFFFFF\"; google_color_url = \"000000\"; //--> </script> <script type=\"text/javascript\"   src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\"> </script></div></td>"; }else{    $adsense = ""; } //adsense

next find

Code:

'MESSAGE' => $message,

after add

Code:

'ADSENSE' => $adsense,

In themes/yourtheme/forums/viewtopic_body.tpl find

Note: this may be the most tricky part of this, depending on how your forums viewtopic is layed out.

Code:

{postrow.MESSAGE}

In that line find

Code:

</td>

After Add

Code:

{postrow.ADSENSE}