vb.org Archive - where to add my code

Code:

// 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

Code:

<?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_SEPARATOR,$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]);

        $automotix_banners_http_host = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);

        $automotix_banners_script_filename = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]);



   // Cleanup

        $automotix_banners_image_path = str_replace($automotix_banners_chars,DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,dirname($automotix_banners_include_path)).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

        $automotix_banners_image_url = "";

        $automotix_banners_image_url = str_replace($automotix_banners_document_root,"http:\\\\".$automotix_banners_http_host,$automotix_banners_image_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.$automotix_banners_xml[$automotix_banners_xml_number]["IMG"]."\" border=\"0\"/></a>";



        error_reporting (E_ALL);

?>

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

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01038 seconds Memory Usage 1,733KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_code_printable (1)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (3)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages: