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i was originally frustrated because i couldnt figure out why my images are not showing... but i got it now... and i applaud your work.. this is beautiful!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by tipoboy (Post 1278406)

now i'm confuzed.

"replace to" and "repalce with" arent they the same????

i've been using vb for a while now and all hacks i've done when it asks you to edit the templates it usually means overwriting the existing code!

it appears to work i have the rotating banner option in my admincp can upload new banners can delete banners etc etc but when trying to view them on the forum it just shows the appropriate size of the picture with a red cross in the corner like the picture can not be found even though it has been saved in the banner folder created in the host directory!!!!

so my question again is cane help, cause i'm stumped been trying various things for a few days to no avail
thanks
dave

anyone help here or should i click uninstall which would be ashame??

Quote:

Originally Posted by tipoboy (Post 1281524)

anyone help here or should i click uninstall which would be ashame??

I've uninstalled. The developer hasn't been online since May.

I love this mod, Cant wait to get upgraded version adding Link to the banner

Quote:

Originally Posted by OpalCat (Post 1278852)

I am apparently an idiot. I thought this would be a rotator for advertising banners, but instead it completely removed my entire forum logo. Well that sucks. Does anyone know of a banner rotator that lets you have sponsor banners rotating without removing your site's branding like this one does? (A search for "banner rotate" comes up with a bunch of hits, and I don't want to waste a bunch of time messing with another one that totally doesn't do what I want, which is why I'm asking for suggestions rather than just blindly installing another one from the search results.)

Have you thought of installing this hack, and then instead of pasting the code in place of your image, you paste it below your image?

For example:

PHP Code:


		
			
<img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" />
$banner

Quote:

Originally Posted by tipoboy (Post 1276785)

just installed it followed instructions installed plugin did edits etc and all works but the image does not show double checked all 777'd images folder still nothing any help here would be appreciated

To verify, did you chmod the folder, or the files inside of the images of it?

Also, right click on the broken image at the top of your page, select Properties and then verify that the image is in the same place that you uploaded it to.

BTW, did you happen to notice the Notation in bright orange?

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Ottoman (Post 1282353)

yes noticed the bright orange writing had to make the folder and i 777'd it when i click the image it does say that it is the right path to the image. i used ftp to double check if the image was there and it was

any ideas??

Quote:

Originally Posted by tipoboy (Post 1282661)

Is the file itself chmodded to 777?

How do I edit the php file or xml file to properly have the width of the banner at 100% all the time? Basically I need my banners to be at 100% because if they are not people with widescreens have a problem viewing the banner because it is too small over the top of the forums.

If you change it within vBulletin AdminCP under the Edit Banner options to 100% it makes the banners look shrunk down or scrunched up within the Edit and Delete banner options. I would like to fix this. Any ideas?

Quote:

Originally Posted by paypal (Post 1282347)

I love this mod, Cant wait to get upgraded version adding Link to the banner

Check few posts above, I already supplied the modded files which include linking your banners to your affiliates/sponsors etc...

I hope you find them useful..

Val.

Quote:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(./images/banners/test.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /totalcontrol/brotator.php on line 62

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpya3uei' to './images/banners/test.jpg' in /totalcontrol/brotator.php on line 62

any ideas

Nice Hack! Very useful ... I'm already running a JavaScript Rotator to do this on my Forums, so dont need this, but if in the future I feel like changing I'll remember this. :up: ...

Hey to All people that got problems installing this, it works fine... !

PP who are looking for a banner rotator, use this... i got no errors.

Quote:

Originally Posted by valdet (Post 1267683)

Can someone hack deeper into this great mod, so once we place more than one $banner variable to our desired place it will show random banners, instead of showing the same banner within same browser session (like it does now)?

Or will I have to hardcode and "clone this" product so I can display different ads at once..?

If someone achieves that this mod will be perfect solution for advertisers.

By the way, here are the modded files for those who are having problems with placing links for their banners.

All credit to the original coder andrefedalto and warlion for the "linkage"..

Cheers,
Val

@valdet, andrefedalto, warlion
this is a good one mod,

can you make the banner rotator with the following functions ?

- the ability to set how many times a banner have to be shown before the next one is shown
- the ability to set the order number of each banner
- the ability to set banner for usergroups

regard

P.S.: and its better to add a new code in templates-> header so the original forum banner stay fix on the left side and the rotating banner rotates on the right side

so in templates header after:

Code:

        <td align="$stylevar[center]">

                &nbsp;

        </td>

add this:

Code:

<td align="$stylevar[right]">$banner</td>

maybe som one like it so

The Hack posted by WarLion made a big mess on my 3.6.7

That's the error I have back:
Database error in vBulletin 3.6.7:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO vbbanners (bid, name, width, height, link, alt, flash, active) VALUES ('', 'maxsig_3.jpg', '', '', 'http://www.adobemax2007.com/europe', 'Max Barcellon', '0', '1');

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'link' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Friday, August 3rd 2007 @ 05:52:48 AM

The banner is regulary uploaded, but looks like there's no field in the DB for the link.
Anyway, link doesn't work.

I've overwrote the xml files and reinstalled the plugin already.

Thanks for the support

Steve

Ok, never mind,
I fixed it from phpMyAdmin

The field created was URL instead of LINK

greetings

Steve

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigevil (Post 1303172)

Just bumping this issue...

I am also wanting to have my banners made in the width 1527 for widescreen users, yet the 100% width set would still show up ok for people using 1280x1024 and so on... Please help. Thanks in advance.

ok 1 question. when i logged in it popped up also s that normal

Quote:

Originally Posted by silence88 (Post 1309661)

ok 1 question. when i logged in it popped up also s that normal

Sorry WRONG MOD!

Quote:

Originally Posted by slosupra (Post 1305807)

same problam with me but no any one help me

Works great, but some images upload... and then nothing shows in their place... others work just fine.

Kinda strange, checked FTP and the files are there but it wont show the banners

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarLion (Post 1195101)

actually i need that and i made it

find in product-rotator.xml

PHP Code:


		
			
CREATE TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."banners` (

                      `bid` smallint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL auto_increment,

                      `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `width` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `height` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `alt` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `flash` INT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default '0',

                      `active` INT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default '0',

                      PRIMARY KEY  (`bid`)

                    )

                ");

and remplace with this

PHP Code:


		
			
CREATE TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."banners` (

                      `bid` smallint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL auto_increment,

                      `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `width` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `height` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `alt` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `link` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

                      `flash` INT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default '0',

                      `active` INT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default '0',

                      PRIMARY KEY  (`bid`)

                    )

                ");

then find

PHP Code:


		
			
} else {

        $banner =     "<center><img src='" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . $defaultdir . "/" . $ban['name'] . "' alt='" . $ban['alt'] . "' width='".$ban['width']."' height='".$ban['height']."' border='0'></center>";            

    }

and remplace with

PHP Code:


		
			
} else {

        $banner =     "<a href='".$ban['link']."'><img src='" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . $defaultdir . "/" . $ban['name'] . "' alt='" . $ban['alt'] . "' width='".$ban['width']."' height='".$ban['height']."' border='0'></a>";            

    }

now you need to add this about line 89

PHP Code:


		
			
<phrase name="setting_brotator_default_link_desc" date="1166036111" username="FileWarez" version="1.0b"><![CDATA[Defalt link]]></phrase>

and

PHP Code:


		
			
<phrase name="setting_brotator_default_link_title" date="1166036111" username="FileWarez" version="1.0b"><![CDATA[Default link]]></phrase>

save and import

now you need to edit the admincp/brotator.xml

on line 30 add this

PHP Code:


		
			
print_input_row('Link', 'link', $vbulletin->options['brotator_default_link']);

find this

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($movefile) {

            $db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners (bid, name, width, height, alt, flash, active) VALUES ('', '$fname', '$_POST[width]', '$_POST[height]', '$_POST[alt]', '$_POST[flash]', '$_POST[active]')");

            print_cp_message($vbphrase['brotator_add_success'], "brotator.php?do=add", "1");

        } else {

            print_cp_message("There was an error while moving your file. Please retry.");

        }

and remplace with this

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($movefile) {

            $db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners (bid, name, width, height, link, alt, flash, active) VALUES ('', '$fname', '$_POST[width]', '$_POST[height]', '$_POST[link]', '$_POST[alt]', '$_POST[flash]', '$_POST[active]')");

            print_cp_message($vbphrase['brotator_add_success'], "brotator.php?do=add", "1");

        } else {

            print_cp_message("There was an error while moving your file. Please retry.");

        }

find this

PHP Code:


		
			
if (!empty($_POST['bid'])) {

            $db->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET 

                alt = '$_POST[alt]',

                width = '$_POST[width]',

                height = '$_POST[height]',

                flash = '$_POST[flash]'  

            WHERE bid = '$_POST[bid]'");

            print_cp_message($vbphrase['brotator_edit_desc_success'], "brotator.php?do=edit", "1");

        }

remplace with this

PHP Code:


		
			
if (!empty($_POST['bid'])) {

            $db->query("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners SET 

                alt = '$_POST[alt]',

                width = '$_POST[width]',

                height = '$_POST[height]',

                link = '$_POST[link]',

                flash = '$_POST[flash]'  

            WHERE bid = '$_POST[bid]'");

            print_cp_message($vbphrase['brotator_edit_desc_success'], "brotator.php?do=edit", "1");

        }

find this

PHP Code:


		
			
                print_cells_row(array(

                    "<center>".$img."</center>",

                    "<form name='form1' method='post' action='brotator.php?do=edit'>

                    <input type='text' class='bginput' name='alt' value='$banner[alt]' class='bginput' size='35'><br><br>

                    Width: <input type='text' class='bginput' name='width' value='$banner[width]' class='bginput' size='5'> 

                    Height: <input type='text' class='bginput' name='height' value='$banner[height]' class='bginput' size='5'><br><br>

                    Flash? <label for='flash".$banner[bid]."' class='smallfont'><input name='flash' id='flash".$banner[bid]."' type='checkbox' value='1' ".$checked."><strong>Yes</strong></label>

                    <input type='hidden' name='bid' value='$banner[bid]'>

                    <input type='hidden' name='update' value='1'>

                    <input type='submit' name='Submit' value='  ".$vbphrase['brotator_edit_update']."  ' class='button'>

                    </form>",

                    $active

and remplaze with this

PHP Code:


		
			
                print_cells_row(array(

                    "<center>".$img."</center>",

                    "<form name='form1' method='post' action='brotator.php?do=edit'>

                    <input type='text' class='bginput' name='alt' value='$banner[alt]' class='bginput' size='35'><br>

                    Link : <input type='text' class='bginput' name='link' value='$banner[link]' class='bginput' size='28'><br>

                    Width: <input type='text' class='bginput' name='width' value='$banner[width]' class='bginput' size='5'> 

                    Height: <input type='text' class='bginput' name='height' value='$banner[height]' class='bginput' size='5'><br><br>

                    Flash? <label for='flash".$banner[bid]."' class='smallfont'><input name='flash' id='flash".$banner[bid]."' type='checkbox' value='1' ".$checked."><strong>Yes</strong></label>

                    <input type='hidden' name='bid' value='$banner[bid]'>

                    <input type='hidden' name='update' value='1'>

                    <input type='submit' name='Submit' value='  ".$vbphrase['brotator_edit_update']."  ' class='button'>

                    </form>",

                    $active

save and overwrite

with this you can edit the link too
and thats all works for me on vb 3.6.4

Great - it works fine - though this put the banner to the left hand side - remember to put CENTER for centering the banner....

} else {
$banner = "<a href='".$ban['link']."'><center><img src='" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . $defaultdir . "/" . $ban['name'] . "' alt='" . $ban['alt'] . "' width='".$ban['width']."' height='".$ban['height']."' border='0'></center></a>";
}

what a great mod

but i got the following error when i tried to add a banner

http://upload.bz/files/zvjmr1zgnjqgnmdxjkdm.jpg

Not working, i added the GIF ext and it still wont let me upload it ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrefedalto (Post 1138376)

I changed a thing in the brotator.php. Please redownload the pack and replace your brotator.php that is in admincp folder for the one in the zip file. Now when you get the error that file type is not allowed, it will also show the type of the file, so you copy it, go to vBulletin Options in AdminCP, find "Banner Rotator" and then add the new extension there. That should work. If not, report here again please :)

Sorry, my mistake. Check here to see how it looks in the website:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=57595
Everytime you refresh or change the page, the banner will be replaced by other randomly.

It's not letting any of the ext upload lol!

too much of a hassle, uninstalled.

Just experinced, if you put a question mark (?) in ALT field, it comes up with an SQL error :)

Nice :)

while uploading a simple banner in ext. of jpg or png it gives this

The selected file type is not allowed.

Anybody know of a banner rotation script which allows you to actually add a URL to the banner? I don't understand what purpose a banner script is that doesn't make the banners clickable??

|This error is returned when trying to upload a banner:

Code:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(./images/banners/communitybanner.gif) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /admincp/brotator.php on line 62



Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpiSUxzA' to './images/banners/communitybanner.gif' in /admincp/brotator.php on line 62

edit: uninstalled.

sorry.

Quote:

Originally Posted by i.s.s.w (Post 1323099)

Nice :)

while uploading a simple banner in ext. of jpg or png it gives this

The selected file type is not allowed.

Check post #47

Quote:

Originally Posted by majorvbuser (Post 1323145)

Anybody know of a banner rotation script which allows you to actually add a URL to the banner? I don't understand what purpose a banner script is that doesn't make the banners clickable??

check post #57!

I've modified these files and it's working great for me at www.pegham.com - you can make your own modifications or use these files I've modified:

I'm new to all of this!
VB is a big application, probably too big for me.
Anyway...
...I would like to use this Banner utility.

"- Upload all the files contained in the "upload" folder inside the zip to your forum root directory."

...I don't have any ZIP file or folder in my Forum directory...
Also, I don't have any admincp, because I changed the name. Is it the same?

"- Install product-brotator."

The file is "product-brotator.xml" ?
Where do I have to upload it ?
How do I have to install it ?

Thanks from any help in the world!
I just finished to change the look of my forum site, I would like to finish this to make it run.

I understand these are silly questions...
Thanks for any help

Scenes, to answer your questions:

I'm not sure what you mean by the fact that you changed the name of admincp, but it's the admin control panel (clicking admin on the lower right-hand corner of your forum page).

Once in, go to "Plugins & Products" and go to "Manage Products". Then in the right page go to Add/Import plugin and this is where you browse to the xml file to upload the plugin.

Download the zip file underneath the "Download Now" section of the first post.

:( Arghhhhh!

Thanks for reply !

I just discovered how to upload the plug-in.
This VB is incredible... lot of parameters everywhere!

Anyway... It's absolutly fantastic!

Ok, I was able to install it and I made a test uploading a jpg banner.
Of course, as I read in previously posts, I had an error about "image/pjpg" kind of images.
I fixed.

Now on the page is showing the banner: wow ! Hurrah !

But...

There's a way to put the banner aligned to the LEFT ?
It seems that the CENTER is locked !
I tryed to see at the php file... But I didn't understand where is this option...
I added a forced div alignment in the common templates manager, but doesn't work...

Where do I have to check ? :confused:

Thanks

:) This add-on is nice and works.
Not easy to install at first time, but then it gives good results.

Only :

1) I don't succeded in changing the alignment for banners. They always look in the middle of their space.

2) I'm using banners of 468x60 pixels. Very strange, if I go with the mouse on the left and on the right (out of the banner) the link remains active. I have a doubt, somewhere in the php gives to banners fixed dimensions? Probably is also the matter that it dosn't move on the left...

3) Is it possible to add the chance to know how many time the banners are displayed?

4) Is it possible to add the chance to know how many times banners are clicked?

I don't know php, just a little to change minimum customization if they are in html.
Banners inside PHP-Nuke works great.
Is it possible to use the same modules inside VB ?

:D Too many questions????

BTW - here's my forum site:
http://www.zag.it/forums

ive uploaded this and there doesnt seem to be an option anywhere for uploading banners. am i missing something? the edit option shown in the first screenshot at the top of the page isnt there.

Hi how
wow long time this mod is not updated ok for the intersted i been workin a little bit in this hack the last time was for the mod for url and this time is for choose the target opcion i meant _self, _blank _top etc.

remenber you need to have the last mod with the link opction post 57 and then you can do this one.

for this you need to edit two files one is Product-brotator.xml and brotator.php

lets start with product-brotator.xml
you need to find this line

Code:

`link` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',

and add below

Code:

`target` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',

find

Code:

$banner =     "<a href='".$ban['link']."><img src='" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . $defaultdir . "/" . $ban['name'] . "' alt='" . $ban['alt'] . "' width='".$ban['width']."' height='".$ban['height']."' border='0'></a>";            

    }

and remplase with

Code:

$banner =     "<a href='".$ban['link']."' target='".$ban['target']."'><img src='" . $vbulletin->options[bburl] . $defaultdir . "/" . $ban['name'] . "' alt='" . $ban['alt'] . "' width='".$ban['width']."' height='".$ban['height']."' border='0'></a>";            

    }

and save it

you can upload the xml with admincp- >products & plugins-> add / import product-> and allow the overwrite if you already have it

now lets start with brotatos.php

find

Code:

$defaultdir = str_replace(".", "", $vbulletin->options['brotator_default_dir']);

add below

Code:

$target_options = array(

                        _self => _self,

                        _blank => _blank,

                        _parent => _parent,

                        _top => _top,

                        );

find

Code:

print_input_row('Link', 'link', $vbulletin->options['brotator_default_link']);

add below

Code:

print_select_row('Target', 'target', $target_options, _self);

find

Code:

$db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners (bid, name, width, height, link,, alt, flash, active) VALUES ('', '$fname', '$_POST[width]', '$_POST[height]', '$_POST[link]', '$_POST[target]', '$_POST[alt]', '$_POST[flash]', '$_POST[active]')");

                        print_cp_message($vbphrase['brotator_add_success'], "brotator.php?do=add", "1");

and remplace width

Code:

$db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "banners (bid, name, width, height, link, target, alt, flash, active) VALUES ('', '$fname', '$_POST[width]', '$_POST[height]', '$_POST[link]', '$_POST[target]', '$_POST[alt]', '$_POST[flash]', '$_POST[active]')");

                        print_cp_message($vbphrase['brotator_add_success'], "brotator.php?do=add", "1");

find this

Code:

link = '$_POST[link]',

add below

Code:

target = '$_POST[target]',

find

Code:

Height: <input type='text' class='bginput' name='height' value='$banner[height]' class='bginput' size='5'><br><br>

add below

Code:

Target :<select name='target' onChange='MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)' class='bginput'>

                                            <option>'$banner[target]'</option>

                                          <option>_self</option>

                                            <option>_blank</option>

                                            <option>_parent</option>

                                            <option>_top</option>

                                          </select>&nbsp;

save it and upload to your server, if everithis go rigth you will have someting like this one

Code:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/488/addfc6.png

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4914/edithj1.png

all credits go to andrefedalto

i don put the files cuz al are in spanish lol i will try to upload after i translate back.

and i have a new idea i will make to choose the alig give me more ideas do you like <div> or <table>, <center> what do you like more?
i will made the modifficaccion and a complite new product to upload

DAMN THIS THING. I installed this to the letter, and had awful problems with it. Got it working almost, and then found that I cannot get into my adminCP - well I can get into my adminCP but not the vBulletin Options part at the top - just getting a blank screen. All other parts of the adminCP work. I have done nothing else but install, and now un-installed this mod. Now the un-install is done, template changed back etc, this adminCP error remains. Can anyone help?

Attachment 69075

Quote:

Originally Posted by AquilaEagle (Post 1326018)

when you say i installed to the letter what do yo mean, what do you install?
and wich version of VB do you have?

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