where to add my code

[dethfire]

I have some lines of php banner code that I want displayed on the forumhome in the nav template. What file do I put my code into for it to display in the nav template?

[Zachery]

I have some lines of php banner code that I want displayed on the forumhome in the nav template. What file do I put my code into for it to display in the nav template?
in the global.php file, what code are you trying to add?

[dethfire]

// BANNER CODE
$automotix_banners_include_path = "includes/banners";
include($automotix_banners_include_path);
// END BANNER CODE


I put that at the end of the global.php file

which opens


<?php

// *** Banner Rotator ***
//
// Randomly selects a banner from repository, generates HTML fragment
// with image and direct hyperlink to the target site. The code is expected
// to be included on the PHP pages on which the banners should appear.

error_reporting(0);

// Get path and URL to images
$automotix_banners_chars = array("\\","/");
$automotix_banners_document_root = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEP ARATOR,$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]);
$automotix_banners_http_host = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEP ARATOR,$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);
$automotix_banners_script_filename = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEP ARATOR,$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);

// Cleanup
$automotix_banners_image_path = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEP ARATOR,dirname($automotix_banners_include_path)).D IRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
$automotix_banners_image_url = "";
$automotix_banners_image_url = str_replace($automotix_banners_document_root,"http:\\\\".$automotix_banners_http_host,$automotix_banners_i mage_path);
$automotix_banners_image_url = str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,"/",$automotix_banners_image_url);

// Function to parse descriptor
function readStructure($filename) {

$xml_config_file_data = implode("",file($filename));
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $xml_config_file_data, $values, $tags);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

$n = 0;
$tdb = array();

foreach ($tags as $key=>$val) {
if ($key == "BANNER") {
$right = $val;
for ($i=0;$i<count($right);$i+=2) {
$offset = $right[$i] + 1;
$len = $right[$i + 1]-$offset;
$rightValues = array_slice($values,$offset,$len);
if ($rightValues) {
for ($j=0;$j<count($rightValues);$j++) {
if ($rightValues[$j]["tag"]=="IMG") {
@$tdb[$n++][$rightValues[$j]["tag"]] = $rightValues[$j]["value"];
} else {
@$tdb[$n][$rightValues[$j]["tag"]] = $rightValues[$j]["value"];
}
}
}
}
} else {
continue;
}
}
return $tdb;
}

// Parse the descriptor and randomly select banner
$automotix_banners_xml = readStructure($automotix_banners_image_path."rotator_php.xml");
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$automotix_banners_xml_count = count($automotix_banners_xml);
$automotix_banners_xml_number = mt_rand (0,$automotix_banners_xml_count-1);

// Generate HTML fragment
$nav_banner = "<a href=\"".$automotix_banners_xml[$automotix_banners_xml_number]["TARGET"]."\" target=_blank><img src=\"".$automotix_banners_image_url.$automotix_banners_x ml[$automotix_banners_xml_number]["IMG"]."\" border=\"0\"/></a>";

error_reporting (E_ALL);
?>


I put $nav_banner in my nav template, but nothing renders, hmmm