Different Ads on different forums + showing recent threads on main page of website

[Gary King]

My best bet is that you didn't modify the forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template properly.

If you have the default template, you should have the following after adding the advertisement part:

PHP Code:

<tr id="cat">
    <td bgcolor="{ categorybackcolor }" colspan="6"><a href="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><normalfont color="{ categoryfontcolor }"><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a>
    <br><smallfont color="#000000">$forum[description]</smallfont></td>
    <td bgcolor="{ categorybackcolor }" style="text-align: right;">$advertisement</td>
</tr> 


That should work.

Don't forget to remove the spaces for { categorybackcolor } and { categoryfontcolor }

And oh, next time you post code, please use the [disable][/disable] tags

[Anat]

Let me try the quoting system - I'm never sure how to go about it in programming forums....


This is what the forumdisplay_forumbit_level1_nopost looks for me now -

PHP Code:

<td style="text-align: right;">$advertisement</td>
<tr id="cat">
    <td bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}" colspan="6"><a href="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><normalfont color="{categoryfontcolor}"><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a>
    <br><smallfont color="{categoryfontcolor}">$forum[description]</smallfont></td>
</tr> 


[Anat]

Obviously I didn't remove the spaces so it shows the VBorg preferences. I see now that I put the advertisement part before the rest of it - maybe that's the problem? will try your version now.

[Anat]

Nope - still not working. The template now looks like this -

PHP Code:

<tr id="cat">
    <td bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}" colspan="6"><a href="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><normalfont color="{categoryfontcolor}"><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a>
    <br><smallfont color="{categoryfontcolor}">$forum[description]</smallfont></td>
<td style="text-align: right;">$advertisement</td>

</tr> 


[Anat]

Gary - where is the ad supposed to show on the page? Looking at the code it says forum description. I only have forum descriptions on the main page. I'd like the ad to show up at the top of the page on every forum page. Just where the ad shows up on my current version of the forums (ad for royal canine) - just to have it display different ads at different forums.

[Gary King]

Today at 03:04 AM Anat said this in Post #15
Gary - where is the ad supposed to show on the page? Looking at the code it says forum description. I only have forum descriptions on the main page. I'd like the ad to show up at the top of the page on every forum page. Just where the ad shows up on my current version of the forums (ad for royal canine) - just to have it display different ads at different forums.

OK, now you've got me confused :speechless:

What I was trying to do was to help you have an advertisement for each category in the forumhome, to the right, like as you said, at the SitePoint forums.

You should specify WHICH ads you want to have at your forum.

You can see what I was trying to help you with in the attached screenshot.

[Anat]

oops - I see what you mean. I forgot that sitepoint also have the sponsorship on their forums main page. I was thinking about the way it looks on any of the forums pages themselves.

Like here -
http://www.sitepointforums.com/forum...php?forumid=16

And in the same forum here-

http://www.sitepointforums.com/showt...hreadid=121963

Sorry about the confusion maybe I should have been clearer about that.

Maybe I should just work with custom styles for each forum? I thought there might be some other solution. Some hack that would define $advertisement and allow me to put different ones for each one. I'm really not familiar with how VB works - if it were Links SQL the solution would be to define a new global. I don't know how this is done in VB (ok, ok, I don't know how it's done in LSQL either - just that is can be done )

[Anat]

Gary, I wish to pay whoever can get this script working for me. I posted about it in the paid jobs forum. If you're still working on this - please read my post there first.

Thanks again!