A Simple PHP Banner Rotator?

[Neetoman]

Thanks Lynne for trying to help... I was actually sent to this thread from my own post that I origionally started here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...47#post1463147

So, if there is anyone who thinks they can help please come post there...

[FishMRC]

We have this installed on our forums and works without issue, but is there a way of making this so that we do not have to refresh the page for a new banner to appear?

Sorry to say that I'm not really that clued up on PHP and all the internal workings of it.

Thanks
Fish

[ETDC]

Simple to install. (We like that). I'm assuming that it'll support Flash with the requisite code...?

:up: :up: :up:

[Mavs00]

I have tried everything to get this to work without success.

I have created a plugin

Hook Location: global_start
Name: Banner Rotator
Execution order: 1

Code

$random_number = rand(1, 2);

$random_banner[1] = '<a href="http://www.hawkvittles.com/"><img src="http://www.adkhighpeaks.com/banner/banner1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>';
$random_banner[2] = '<a href="http://adkhighpeaks.com/sentinel/"><img src="http://www.adkhighpeaks.com/banner/banner2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>';

Right now, I only have 2 (once it works, I'll add more).

I then have added the following code to the bottom of my postbit_legacy templete. It's set within a [if] condition to display it after the first post in each thread.

<if condition="$post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1">

<div style="padding: $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px 0px 0px">

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="thead" align="left">Sponsored Links</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">
 

$random_banner[$random_number]


	</td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>

</if>

If I replace the $random_banner[$random_number] with a single banner image link, or even adsense javascript code, it works perfect, but when I put in the $random banner call, I get an empty "sponsored link table".

Any help would be appreciated. Oh yeah, I'm running this on an old 3.6.2 version. I haven't tried it on another forum running 3.8. so I don't know if it works there.

--------------- Added [DATE]1247935578[/DATE] at [TIME]1247935578[/TIME] ---------------

Addendum to above post.

I was able to get it to successfully work within the Header template.

It must be a formatting error in my postbit_legacy "sponsored links table. I can't for the life of me figure it out.

[Mavs00]

Originally Posted by Mavs00

I have tried everything to get this to work without success.

I have created a plugin

Hook Location: global_start
Name: Banner Rotator
Execution order: 1

Code

$random_number = rand(1, 2);

$random_banner[1] = '<a href="http://www.hawkvittles.com/"><img src="http://www.adkhighpeaks.com/banner/banner1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>';
$random_banner[2] = '<a href="http://adkhighpeaks.com/sentinel/"><img src="http://www.adkhighpeaks.com/banner/banner2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>';

Right now, I only have 2 (once it works, I'll add more).

I then have added the following code to the bottom of my postbit_legacy templete. It's set within a [if] condition to display it after the first post in each thread.

<if condition="$post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1">

<div style="padding: $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px 0px 0px">

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="thead" align="left">Sponsored Links</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">
 

$random_banner[$random_number]


	</td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>

</if>

If I replace the $random_banner[$random_number] with a single banner image link, or even adsense javascript code, it works perfect, but when I put in the $random banner call, I get an empty "sponsored link table".

Any help would be appreciated. Oh yeah, I'm running this on an old 3.6.2 version. I haven't tried it on another forum running 3.8. so I don't know if it works there.

--------------- Added [DATE]1247935578[/DATE] at [TIME]1247935578[/TIME] ---------------

Addendum to above post.

I was able to get it to successfully work within the Header template.

It must be a formatting error in my postbit_legacy "sponsored links table. I can't for the life of me figure it out.

Any thoughts here, I still can not figure this out. PLEASE. thanks

[Mavs00]

Does not work in 3.8.3 or 4

It seems the only place I cannot get it to work is the postbit_legacy template.

[valdet]

Sorry for bumping an old thread. I am looking for similar solution.

Originally Posted by Mavs00

Does not work in 3.8.3 or 4

It seems the only place I cannot get it to work is the postbit_legacy template.

For vb3 you need to use it on postbit_start or postbit_complete hooks. It worked for me.


But I am still interested to find out how to make this rotator work for vBulletin 4 here .
Any ideas??

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UPDATE:
After lots of trial&error testing I finally made it through
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...30#post2095330