This post teaches the users with Hestia Style installed on their board for ad placement in the forum page. This ad placement creates a column in the left side of the forum page, by shifting the topic/forum list to the right. And one ad will be placed just after the topic/forum list.

Ads in left side of the Forum

In this the ad appears in the left side of the viewforum page as an sky scrapper. Check the screen shot for the exact placement.

Step1: Open the viewforum_body.html file.

Step 2: Look for the following line in the code.

<!– INCLUDE overall_header.html –>

This line is the first line on the viewforum_body.html code page.

Step3: Just after this line paste the following code, replacing your ad goes here with your ad code.

{$CA_BLOCK_START}
<table class=”tablebg” width=”100%” cellspacing=”{$CA_SPACING}”>
{$CA_CAP_START}{$CA_CAP_END}
<tr>
<td class=”row1 nobold” width=”160″ valign=”top”><p class=”genmed”>
your ad goes here
</p>
</td>
<td align=”left” valign=”top”>
<br />

Step4: Now look for the following line in the code.

<!– INCLUDE breadcrumbs.html –>

Step5: Add the following lines just after these lines.

</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>

Step 6: Save the changes made to the file.

Ad just after forum List

The ad appears just after the forum list, where the list of the topic and forum finishes. Check the attached screen shot for the clear location of ad placement.

Step1: Open the viewforum_body.html file.

Step 2: Look for the following line in the code.

<!– IF S_DISPLAY_ONLINE_LIST –>

Step3: Just above this line paste the following code, replacing your ad goes here with your ad code.

{$CA_BLOCK_START}
<table class=”tablebg” width=”100%” cellspacing=”{$CA_SPACING}”>
{$CA_CAP_START}Advertisements{$CA_CAP_END}
<tr>
<td class=”row1 nobold” width=”100%” valign=”middle”><p class=”genmed”>
<center>
your ad goes here
</center>
</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
{$CA_BLOCK_END}

Step 4: Save the changes made to the file.

We hope this modification helps you with the ad placement, if you have any problem with the customization of ads with this style visit our official forum for Hestia.

Check our Ad Placement solution for CA Vintage style:

• Ad placement on index page of CA Vintage Style
• Ads Placement in Forum page for CA Vintage style
• Ads Placement in topics for CA Vintage style

I have worked for various entertainment forum clients and one of their very basic requirement is video’s for the site. There are lot of mod’s available over the Phpbb.com, but they are mainly available for YouTube and Google videos. If you like to add any other video site you can create custom BB Code for it. But creating custom for every video site is a very tedious job.

Well we have a mod that is still in beta over PhpBB3 forum, but we are using it successfully for almost a year for our clients. The beauty of the mod is that you need not make any code modifications in the files, simply upload a file and create a custom code.

The installation is a simple few step installation:

1. Upload the file (video.php) in the root of the site.
2. Now Login into forum’s admin control panel.
3. Select Posting tab from the top tabs.
   
4. The window provides you with a option of adding new BB code, check the extreme right of window.
   
5. Now fill up the available block/form. Add the BB Code that want to use in the BBCode Usage.

   [video]{TEXT}[/video]
   
   In the HTML replacement block enter.

   <script type=”text/javascript” src=”video.php?link={TEXT}”></script>

   In the help line, enter the mouse over for the video BB Code.

   Add the Video

   In the settings, check the display box.

   Lastly, submit.

   

There are a large number of Videos that are supported by this BB Code, a partial list of the supported video sites includes YouTube, Google video, daily motion, metacafe. MySpace, starsclips, yahoo, photo bucket, filefront, stage6, veoh, vidilife, game trailers, vidiac, game spot, mega video, vimeo, Game videos, tu.tv and God tube.

We hope that you find might had found your favorite video site in the list.

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