Ann: Simple adsense injector module (beta)

By mcurry on 12 Dec 2006 at 21:25 UTC

I've been using this simple module on my sites, in order to do automatic insertion of adsense.module ad code into my nodes when viewed as a full page (not teaser, not in a list) - this is nice because you don't have to muck around with hand-inserting [adsense:WxH:n:n] tags, and you don't have to mess with node templates - just drop the module in, enable, configure, and go.

It's not yet hosted on drupal.org, but I intend to host it here as a user-contributed project, once I see that there is enough interest, and have enough feedback to know that it works well enough for other people.

More information is available on exodusdev.com (follow the link to download the current .tar.gz archive).

Please do try it out and let me know what you think.

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This is a great module; with

FiReaNGeL commented 12 December 2006 at 21:53

This is a great module; with some further improvements, you could make it inject adsense ads after the first and third paragraphs (if the content is lengthly enough), for instance. It also allows you to tweak your ad format, group, and channel on the fly, which is great for optimization purposes.

Great work!

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mcurry commented 6 February 2007 at 05:54

I like your idea! Keep 'em coming!

This started out as a helper module for my sites, so I kept it very simple at first - otherwise I'd never be able to deploy it... so it does have some rough edges.

I've got some ideas for improvements - using some kind of search pattern (regexp) to determine where to insert, or, a pattern to use to exclude/include some urls, etc. would be useful.

If you have other feature suggestions, feel free to leave comments on the project page (http://exodusdev.com/drupal/4.7/modules/adsense_injector.module) as I'm more likely to check those pages frequently.

Or, I can make a request to have this module hosted on drupal.org contributed projects page and CVS so we can track feature requests there. Now then, how do I go about doing that... I forget. Time to check the handbooks!

Michael Curry - http://exodusdev.com

Great idea.

florian commented 12 December 2006 at 22:39

Great idea. This module has to be part of the AdSense module, for sure.

How about preparing the module for Drupal 5.0. I will give it a try today.

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contrib?

mcurry commented 6 February 2007 at 05:55

It's already structured as a contributed module under adsense.module (it can live in modules/adsense/contrib/adsense_injector). I'm not sure how to go about checking it in under adsense.module CVS tree, if that's what you mean.

I have a CVS account (for the directory module) but haven't yet discussed this with the adsense.module folk(s).

Regarding 5.0, I need to install a 5.0 test/dev system, and I haven't yet done that. I'll make that a priority.

Michael Curry - http://exodusdev.com

Drupal 5 version available

mcurry commented 6 February 2007 at 06:01

I've committed a Drupal 5 version, thanks to user contributions.

Michael Curry - http://exodusdev.com

Name that module

mcurry commented 6 February 2007 at 05:56

Ok, I've received the go-ahead to check it in as a contributed module under the adsense.module CVS tree. Before this is cast in stone, let's try to pick a better name for the module.

Visit this page, leave a comment, and let us know if you think there's a better name (we've started the ball rolling by suggesting a few alternatives)

http://exodusdev.com/drupal/4.7/modules/adsense_injector.module#comment-8

Michael Curry - http://exodusdev.com

New version available - minimum word count, inline styles

mcurry commented 28 December 2006 at 18:48

I've just updated the beta version on my site (still working on hosting this under Drupal CVS as an adsense.module contributed module...)

The new version allows the site admins to set a minimum node body word count (currently uses the same simple method used in node.module minimum word length checks) - if the node's body has less than the specified # of words, no ad is injected. The default word count threshold is 75.

Other minor tweaks, as well: default formatting uses inline style information to float the ad to the left, so you don't have to add anything to the style sheet if you just want to try out the module.

More enhancements are planned, so please continue providing ideas/suggestions.

Available at:
http://exodusdev.com/drupal/4.7/modules/adsense_injector.module-source-code

Michael Curry - Exodus Development

Exclusion pages?

bdillahu commented 4 January 2007 at 19:05

Does the code honor the "adsense on all but listed pages" option in the adsense module? I seem to be having problems getting it to not appear on a certain page.