Adsense in content with wrap around Drupal 6.1

By mustardman on 27 Mar 2008 at 19:25 UTC

I was wondering if anyone can help me as I can't code to save my life. I am trying to insert a 200x200 Google adsense ad into my content so that the text wraps around. Specifically I want a left justified ad with a bit of a margin around it that is in the first part of content of each page.

Adsense module for 6 isn't running yet. No word if or when injector will come. I tried a few hacks I read in various places but they don't work in Drupal 6. I got about 75% there with hacks but it didn't work enough to put in production.

Here is what I got 75% working. Something still goofy because it only showed up properly on front page. On other pages all the content move over to the right in IE and in Firefox the ad showed up centered.

I'm running Garland theme. In my page.tpl.php file I inserted the following.

//your adsense code here

In between

print $content

Again, this works exactly the way I want on the front page in IE and Firefox but goes pear shaped on other pages with IE and Firefox having different reactions.

Comments

Ok so the above code didn't

mustardman commented 27 March 2008 at 19:38

Ok so the above code didn't show up because I forgot to code it out.

The inserted code in page.tpl.php is

<div style="float: right">
//your adsense code here
</div>

which I placed between

<div class="clear-block">

           <?php print $content ?>

I also tried to use an example using style.css someone posted for use in Wordpress but that didn't work either

#adsense-wrap {
	float: left;
	margin-right: 5px;
}

and then putting

<div id=”adsense-wrap”>
//adsense code here
</div>

in page.tpl.php but it never worked either.

node.tpl.php?

silverwing commented 27 March 2008 at 19:34

if you want it in the content you could put it in node.tpl.php above the call to $content in a span that you float:right

~silverwing
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Perhaps I didn't do it right

mustardman commented 27 March 2008 at 19:40

Perhaps I didn't do it right but when I put the adsense code in the node file it was at the beginning of all the individual posts on each page which is not what I want and violates the TOS for Adsense because it tries to put more than 3 ads per page.

put it in...

silverwing commented 27 March 2008 at 19:44

<?php if ($page != 0): ?> <?php endif; ?>

But it in the middle of that to get it set when it's only on an individual post.

~silvewring

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Thanks I'll try that but

mustardman commented 27 March 2008 at 19:50

Thanks I'll try that but unless I am mistaken it won't show up on the first page then correct? So I need to do 2 things? Can you give a few more details?

Try using a

nicholasbarcomb commented 28 March 2008 at 07:29

Try using a node-NID.tpl.php, where the NID is the node id # of the node you want it on

Well that line worked for

mustardman commented 27 March 2008 at 23:14

Well that line worked for anything besides the front page so I suppose I could add the same code on the page.tpl.php with =0 so it only shows up on front page. It still doesn't look great if the content isn't very long because of the formatting done by Drupal. It literally looks like it is hacked right in there. I guess I'll have to wait for the module+injector :(

The only way I was able to

mustardman commented 28 March 2008 at 06:34

The only way I was able to get anything to work close to what I wanted was to float right instead of left. It just refused to work float left on anything other than the front page

<div style="float: right; margin-left:5px; margin-right:5px; margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:5px;">

and here is my website. It's still not perfect as you can see on the forum page but good enough for now.
www.powerpbx.org

hey can you please explain

vikramdhani commented 28 March 2008 at 07:37

hey can you please explain me in detail how can where should i insert the code to get the ad to display like that i dont know coding but if you can give me the sample code and where to insert then i will be able to do that

i hope you will help me out on this

i have one more questions how come the ad is not not showing up on the other postings because if i am not wrong then everytime you have a new post it is a new page ?

I explained that in post #1.

mustardman commented 28 March 2008 at 17:56

I explained that in post #1. Between that and my previous post you have all the info you need. I'm not a coder and if I can figure it out anyone can. It's not working perfectly. if you look on multiple pages on my site you will see a bit of goofy behaviour.

The important thing is since adding that wrap around ad yesterday my click through rate is up 50% today so it's worth it for my site.

so can i add this code

vikramdhani commented 31 March 2008 at 08:03

so can i add this code anywhere on my page or there is some specific place where i have to add the code ?

This worked for me

packratmag commented 31 December 2008 at 17:36

I am using Drupal 6.8 and the newest Adsense module and injector. I placed the following code in the adsense injector field located /admin/settings/adsense_injector

<div style=display:block;float:left;margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;>//adsense code here</div>

Appears to work well with no mods needed.

Thanks for the info. Now

mustardman commented 20 April 2009 at 17:44

Thanks for the info. Now that Adsense module and injector are ported to D6 it simplifies things quite a bit. I'll give your code a try.