Releases for Advertisement

#3345586: Drupal 10 compatibility

Initial D9+ release.

Notes:
The Ad Example module was renamed to Ad UI (see #2852735: Rename and Clean Up "ad_example" Submodule).

Ready for early beta testers, this is a complete rewrite of the Ad module.

Depends on the following:

• ctools
• eck
• entity
• features
• views

May 20th, 2012 (6.x-2.4)
- Bug #1587578 by MadOverlord: Channel selection regression.
- Bug #1585986 by smyleeface: hook_update_N() must return something.

This release aims to refactor the code, leverage other modules as much as possible (views, scheduler and workflow in particular), and adopt a stronger client/server model for the module.

A complete rewrite of the ad module, aims to fully leverage core APIs to offer much more flexible functionality.

The 6.x-2.2 version of the ad module includes a complete rewrite of the Ad Report module which now uses Google's Charts API to create more attractive and flexible reports. The Ad Notify module has been removed, completely replaced by the Ad Actions module which provides numerous triggers and actions allowing you to build highly customizable notifications, and much more.

Be sure to disable the ad_report and ad_notify modules before you upgrade to this latest Ad module release.

Changes since 6.x-2.2-rc1:

• #645598: Bug in hook_nodeapi() when $op = 'validate': sometimes inappropriate use of strtotime(): don't munge ad expiration time when ad edited by user without permission to edit expiration time, patch thanks to Wim Leers
• #646066: DB error - missing brackets ad.pages.inc: add missing {}'s, patch thanks to Jens Soerensen, aka beltofte

Changes since 6.x-2.1-rc1

Bug fixes:

The 6.x-2.0 version of the ad module introduces channels, weighting, and premier advertisements, offering much greater control over which advertisements appear on your website, where they appear, and how often they appear. The ability to display advertisements on remote websites has also seen several improvements. The ad module's reporting layer has received many enhancements, among other things allowing advertisers to run reports over specific date ranges, and giving administrators the ability to export statistics as CSV files. The underlying caching layer has been completely rewritten, simplifying the underlying code to minimize bugs, facilitating integration with third party code, and improving overall performance.

The entire code base has been reviewed to ensure E_ALL compliance, ensuring general correctness, and improving security. Thanks to the active participation of dozens of beta testers, there have been countless bugs fixed during the active development phase.

Finally, the ad module's permissions system has been greatly improved. All standard Drupal content-type permissions have been properly implemented, and the ad module's own permissions layer has been moved into an optional module and further enhanced. The ability to define different advertiser roles and to control exactly what each of these roles can do has been greatly improved.

New features::

• #421026: add notification events for an advertisement being taken offline, and for an advertisement being updated
• #421038: allow weighting of non-channel advertisements
• #421054: enforce optional maximum filesize for image ads, enforce maximum size, and minimum/maximum height and width on remotely hosted images in addition to locally hosted images

Bug fixes:

• #376924: list ad_owner as ad_cache_file dependency
• #400734: validate cache element exists before using it
• #404888: properly display advertisements and increment impressions when using the raw method to display advertisements
• #419140: always be sure $permissions is an array
• #421008: make premier status configurable to anyone with 'configure premier status' permission
• #421046: optionally limit the number of channels that can be assigned to a single advertisement
• #422936: add missing extra fields from table definitions
• #425482: support older versions of PHP when building cache
• #426292: sanitize ad channel urls, trimming white space from start and end of lines to be sure they match as expected
• #426300: allow the deletion of channels and containers
• #431806: use valid XHTML when displaying advertisements
  

New features:

March 3rd, 2009 (6.x-2.0-beta2)
- ad_cache_file.module
o fix PHP E_ALL notices
- ad_image.install
o feature #388712: add remote_image field for remotely hosting images
- ad_image.module
o feature #388712: optionally allow images to be hosted remotely
(must go to "Administer > Content management > Ads > Settings > Image ad"
and check "Allow remote hosted images" to use this feature.)
- ad.module
o allow ad-type module global settings changes to be saved
- ad_owners.module

- ad_owners.module
o rename ad_host_id_create to ad_owners_create_hostid for consistency
- ad_remote.module
o replace call to ad_host_id_create with ad_owners_create_hostid
- ad_weight_probability.module
o bug #386816: new ads default to a weight of 1
- ad_html.module
o fix PHP E_ALL notices
- ad.pages.inc
o bug #386824: fix grammatical typo
- ad_channel.module
o feature #386810: set channel after ad group
o feature #386820: display channels when viewing node (if have 'administer

The ad module is a powerful advertising system for Drupal-powered websites. It supports the random display and tracking of graphical (banner) and text ads. Ads can easily be displayed in themes, blocks, or embedded in site content. The module records comprehensive statistics about when and how often ads are viewed and clicked, including a plug-in module for generating graphical time-based reports. Ads can be assigned to multiple owners, each of which can be assigned their own set of permissions. Installation is simple by design. An API is provided allowing the development of additional functionality and integration with other Drupal modules.

First 6.x release candidate.
SA-CONTRIB-2009-007 - Advertisement Cross-site scripting

Latest development version of the ad module -- development has stopped in this branch, and was moved to the 6.x-2.x branch. It is doubtful that this branch will ever have a stable release.

New features:

• Geotargeting, with Ad GeoIP project.
• #250289: new jQuery method for displaying advertisements.
• #177885: Drupal input filters can optionally be applied when displaying advertisements.
• #233568: can set per-ad-type default permissions for ad owners
• #274297: API: allow modules to define their own ad display variables
• #220817: support installations that are using symbolic links
• API: introduce adserve hooks: adserve_init_text, adserve_exit_text, and adserve_select.

Bug fixes include:

• #271912: gracefully report when memcache is not installed
• #271477: don't start id with a number
• #288489: add missing argument 2 for variable_get()
• #270808: set default value when calling variable_get()
• #242738: XHTML-Strict compliance, use onclick handler instead of target (patch thanks to Daniel Kudwien, aka 'sun')
  

Bug fixes

• ad.module:
  • #248423: auto-fix when ad vocabulary information gets corrupted
• ad.install:
  • #248670: add missing commas
• ad_views.inc:
  • #141539: fix current user filter

Maintenance release:
Changes:

• Fix raw mode, properly count ad views

Bug fixes:

• bug #164217: restore ability to set global click-through target
• bug #163058: simplify query filter, join not necessary
• tell web browsers not to cache images used for counting ad views

Features:

• add report views for hourly, weekly and monthly, in addition to daily

Changes in version 1.3:

• Feature: invisible image mechanism for counting ad views without using JavaScript.
• Feature: adserve tracks which ads have been displayed, so can be called multiple times without displaying duplicate ads.
• New file: most logic from adserve.php was moved into adserve.inc.
• New file: imageserve.inc, provides a mechanism for counting ad views using invisible images.

Changes and New features: