Adding to $ad_location

[Sarteck]

Well, correct me if I'm wrong (since I've never used the Ad manager, I very well could be), but using the Ad Manager would not allow me to add custom content pulled from my database, modified by PHP, etc. etc., right?


To get into the gory details of it:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
$cba_announcements = '';
$cbaids = array();


$cba_results = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT announcementid, cbmp_order, content, title FROM cbmp_tabs_content WHERE enabled=1 ORDER BY cbmp_order");
while ($cba = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($cba_results))
{
  $cbaids[] = $cba['announcementid'];
  $cba_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
  $cba['content'] = $cba_parser->do_parse($cba['content']);
  $cba['content'] = str_replace("'",'\\\'',$cba['content']);
  $cba['content'] = str_replace("\n",'',$cba['content']);
  $cba['content'] = str_replace("\r",'',$cba['content']);
  $cba['title'] = $cba_parser->do_parse($cba['title']);
  $cba['title'] = str_replace("'",'\\\'',$cba['title']);
  $cba_jsbit_template = vB_Template::create('cba_announcement_jsbit');
  $cba_jsbit_template->register('cba', $cba);
  $cba_announcements .= $cba_jsbit_template->render();
  unset($cba_jsbit_template);
}
$cba_id=$cbaids[rand(0,intval(sizeof($cbaids)-1))];

$cba_main_template = vB_Template::create('cba_main');
$cba_main_template->register('cba_announcements', $cba_announcements);
$cba_main_template->register('cba_id', $cba_id);
$cba_main = $cba_main_template->render(); 


That's the code I wrote. It adds in a basic ad-like slider, but the "ads" are announcements the leaders of the "Guilds" at my site have added. I need to be able to add that stuff in that cba_main template I created, since it handles the JavaScript for it and everything.



This is going to sound silly, but another reason I haven't tried the Ad Manager is that it's never worked for me. X3 It always loads a blank, gray page. (I've never bothered trying to fix it, because I never wanted to add any ads, heh.)