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This guide/tutorial will serve as a way for current/future Site Administrators from all over the internet that use IP.Board as their choice of software to use to earn a little bit more money. Please note that I only intent to help users who are willing to use this guide and place advertisements on their Forums. First, to get start, visit http://www.google.com/adsense/start/ [ Warning: This is an External Link] After visiting the link provided above, you must sign in, using an existing Google Account (Gmail). If you do not have a Google Account, you will have to take the time to create one. Once you have signed in, please take the time to click Save Password. Depending on what browser you are using, different messages will appear wanting you to save your password. Internet Explorer will be located at the bottom of the page and Google Chrome will be located at the right-top corner of the browser. After you have signed in, visit the link once again. This time you will be able to officially start the process of getting your Advertisements. Locate and click on the Get Started Now button. Once you have click the button, you will be redirected to a new page. Here you must fill out the Application Process. After everything has been submitted to Google, you will be able to access to view how many view you have, what ads you have, and how many page views you have. Unfortunately, you will not have any page views as you have just recently made your Adsense account. At the top of the page, you will see a notification that states that your application has been submitted and is awaiting approval. You complete the Application Process, you must create ads and put them onto your Forums. To create ads, locate and click on "My Ads". Here is will display what ads you currently have. Unfortunately, you will not have any ads has you have recently made your account with Adsense. Find New Ad Unit and click on it to create a new ad. You will be asked to give the Name of the new Ad Unit, what dimensions you want the ad to be, and what the ad type is. Once you have filled out all this information, click on Save and Get Code. You will be supplied a code that you must implement into your Forums. Please take the time to log into your Admin Control Panel on your Forums. http://yoursite.com/admin/index.php [ Used as an Example] Once you have logged into your Admin Control Panel, locate Look & Feel. Find the name of your current skin that is being used on your Forums. Click on your current skin. A large variety of Templates will display and you are able to edit the Forums in any way you choose. Click on Board Index, which is located below Global Templates. A larger variety of templates will be displayed. Click on boardindexTemplate. On the first line, before: <if test="$this->settings['hoverDescriptions']='no'"></if> Add the code supplied to you by Google Adsense. Once you have added it, you have the choice to center the Ad on at the top of the page. To center the Ad, use: <center> CODE HERE </center> You can scroll down to the bottom of boardindexTemplate to add the code to the bottom of your index page. Please use the last couple steps to have you. Once both codes have been added, you can click on Save, that is located at the top of the Templates. Make sure to look at your Forums. You will notice that large sections are empty and no ads appear. They will appear empty until Google Adsense has approved your application.

Okay, I struggled for about an hour or so getting this to work properly. All the tutorials I found on the net were somewhat outdated since Facebook updated the way they have their app setup now. I figured to save others the frustration, I would post how I got mine to work! The steps are as follows (I will try to make them the most accurate and easiest way possible)! I have also included images to help those who like visual instructions in the spoiler tags below each step! You will need to be logged in to both your Facebook account and your IP.Board's Admin Control Panel (Duh, lol) Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and click the "Create New App" button. Now, in "Display Name" enter what you want it to be named. The best thing is just the name of your website. Then select a category (I chose Entertainment) and then click the "Create App" button. You will need to also enter a captcha when you do. Just make sure you type the characters correctly (although if you have been on the internet for longer than a minute, I am sure you are used to captchas ) In the sidebar on the left hand side, click on "Settings". Now enter an email address for the contact email (this is required). You can use the same email address as your Facebook profile or the admin email you used for your IP.Board. It is up to you! Click the "Save Changes." button. Next, click the "Add Platform" button and click "Website". Now input the URL that you use for your board into the "Site URL" textbox. (This includes the subdomain if it is in one.) - Click the "Save Changes" button. Now, in the sidebar click on "App Details" and scroll down till you see the "Configure App Center Permissions" button. Click on it. Next, where it says "Auth Token Parameter" click the dropdown and select the "URI Fragment (#access_token=...)" option. Now where it says "App Center Permission", enter in the following permissions (it will bring up selectable things as you type so when you are typing, if you see it listing below as you type, click on it.): email, read_stream, publish_actions. Click the "Save" button. Next, click back on "Settings" in the left sidebar and click on the "Advanced" tab. Find the section "Deauthorize Callback URL". In the textbox for Deauthorize Callback URL you will be using this URL, tailored to your boards url: http://your-board-url.com/interface/facebook/index.php When you are finished click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page! Next, click on the "Status & Review" button in the left sidebar, and click the little toggle button next to "Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public?" to enable the App to be activated. This will bring up a dialog box asking if you want to make it public. Click the "Confirm" button. Now, login and go to your IP.Board's Admin Control Panel. Under the "Application & Modules" category on the left sidebar, click "Community Enhancements". Then, click on "Facebook". This step will be pretty long (long-ish) but here goes. Go back to your facebook app stuff and click the "Dashboard" button in the left side Sidebar. You will see some stuff that says "App ID" and "App Secret" click the "Show" button next to App Secret to display it. You are going to copy both these fields into their appropriate equivalent textbox fields in the Facebook settings stuff we just opened in IP.Board. (e.g. copy App ID into Application ID, Secret into Secret key). Keep all the other settings the way they are on the IP.Board side and click the "Save" button. NOTE: If you keep the 'Facebook "Real name/Display name" handling' option as "Allow User's Choice" you MUST have the setting to let users choose display names ON. (This can be found and edited in System Settings -> "Members" tab -> Username Restrictions -> Display Name Restrictions -> Allow display names) Now go into the register or login pages on your board (you must be logged out of your admin account but still logged into facebook, obviously ) and test to see if it works. If it does, it will open facebook and ask if you want to have the app gain access to your info (email and profile info used for registration). And if you follow the prompts accordingly, you will be linked back to your forums with the option to use the Facebook login to create a new forum account or link it to an already existing one! That's it! You have successfully setup the Facebook login/registering feature on your board! Congrats! All these steps worked on my end, doing it twice, both succeeding. If it worked for you, let me know. If it doesn't work, also let me know and we can troubleshoot. If you liked this post and thought it was helpful, a nice PM or message is always appreciated as well as voting this post up to help out my Rep. Cheers!

Alright the last part where you added this code: <div id='shoutbox-rules' style='display: none; line-height: 1.5;'> <h3>{$this->lang->words['board_rules']}</h3> <div class='ipsBox'> <div class='ipsBox_container ipsPad'> <p>Your rules text</p> </div> </div> </div> <script type='text/javascript'> $('shoutbox-rules-button').observe( 'click', function(e) { _var = new ipb.Popup( 'booboo', { type: 'pane', initial: $('shoutbox-rules').innerHTML, hideAtStart: false} ); Event.stop(e); return false; }); </script> You see the first half where it says <p>Your rules text</p> Just edit that to whatever you want your rules to be.