Miscellaneous Hacks - 10 Random Banners (Or Other HTML Objects)

Note: This product is not limited to 10 random banners since it drives on HTML. You can tune it to showing 10 defined YouTube video's which will be displayed randomly. It's up to you.

Description
This lightweight product allows you to place $tenrandombanners on your template(s), which will randomly pick one of the 10 admin-defined banners. Every refresh of the page gives you another banner, unless the same banner is randomly chosen again.
Setting the banners (or any other object you want to display) is completely done with HTML (and not with millions of settings), so you can have full control over the height, width, alt, target, etc. per banner. You could use any other kind of HTML or conditional statements (if usergroup, if forum, if script, etc.) too.

Details
Works for 3.7.X and 3.8.X, not build for 4.X or higher
Adds one plugin and 22 phrases.
The CMPS module adds one template and one .php module.

Install product
- Upload product-10randombanners.xml in the Admin CP through the section Products And Plugins.
- Adjust settings at vBulletin Options > 10 Random Banners

Install CMPS-module (optional)
- Upload cmps-10randombanners.xml in the Admin CP through Upload Module at the section vBadvanced.
- Set on which page the module should appear.

Notes
- Fill in from 1 to 10, the script won't pick up gaps between fields. You're not obligated to use all 10 fields. Just fill in the fields chronologically: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
- Not likely to work on vBulletin 4.X or higher

History
1.0 - initial release (january 2010)
1.1 - added CMPS module and changed product for better rotation between banners (august 2011)

[EWGF]

I believe this code provides in showing the banner after the third post in forums 1, 2 and 3. In your case, this code should be placed in the "postbit" or "postbit_legacy" template

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 3 AND in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(1,2,3))">$tenrandombanners</if> 


[MagicThemeParks]

Thanks for this! :up:

How do you increase this to more than ten banners or how do you run a 2nd instance of this same mod on the same page?

[xoxstugotsxox]

Is it possible to add this to CMPS?

[EWGF]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

Thanks for this! :up:

How do you increase this to more than ten banners or how do you run a 2nd instance of this same mod on the same page?

More than ten banners can be done by manually adjusting the plugin, although the settings in vBulletin Options only support ten fields.
You can place the variable more than once

Originally Posted by xoxstugotsxox

Is it possible to add this to CMPS?

Yes

[Scyther]

nice mod..

marked installed....thanks..

[BGObsession]

I understand we can edit our CMPS template and add this, but what I want to be able to do on CMPS is to have this set as a center 'module' so I can rotate a series of images that change with every refresh. I've played with it, but can't figure out how to make that work.

Idea?

[EWGF]

You probably added $tenrandombanners as a BBcode in the module. That variable only works in templates

I made a CMPS module which does exactly what you're looking for. I also updated the code of the plugin for better rotation.

[BGObsession]

I knew the template code wouldn't work, just wasn't sure where to go from there. Awesome - I'm going to give it a try - thanks for the effort!

[BGObsession]

Working like a charm. Took me a bit to figure out I had to upload the first xml as a 'product', then upload the other xml in the CMPS section as a module, but I got it going. Thanks! Not often you ask for very specific help and get it. Truly appreciated.

[BGObsession]

Will this work on vbulletin version 4??? Anyone tried it?