[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_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