Another Javascript VBA CMPS Banner Rotation Solution

I have been fighting with a number of the various Javascript based banner rotations on the board and I seemed to keep having problems. My solution was to stubbornly give up and turn to our friends at Google.com. A quick google search uncovered this little script so the author of this page deserves credit for making this work:

http://www.yugdesign.com/demo/Ad-Simple/index.html

With the script above, I simply set out to create a module for my website that would allow me to present a random book with an amazon affiliate link.

Step 1: Create the PHP File, save in /forums/modules/books.pdf

PHP Code:

<tr><td><table bgcolor="white" width=100%><tr><td><center>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
/*
 +---------------------------------------------------------+
 | Ad Simple                 Copyright [url]www.YugDesign.com[/url]   |
 +---------------------------------------------------------+
 | This program may be used and hosted free of charge by   |
 |anyone for personal purpose as long as this copyright    |
 |notice remains intact.                                   |
 +---------------------------------------------------------+
*/

var img_width = "150";
var img_height = "230";
var img_title = "Click Here";


var ad=new Array()
//insert here your images src
ad[0]='http://www.mydomain.com/books/book1.jpg'; 
ad[1]='http://www.mydomain.com/books/book2.jpg';
ad[2]='http://www.mydomain.com/books/book3.jpg'; 
ad[3]='http://www.mydomain.com/books/book4.jpg';  
ad[4]='http://www.mydomain.com/books/book5.jpg'; 
ad[5]='http://www.mydomain.com/books/book6.jpg';

var links=new Array()
//insert here your links
links[0]='http://www.amazon.com/affiliate_link_1; 
links[1]='http://www.amazon.com/affiliate_link_2; 
links[2]='http://www.amazon.com/affiliate_link_3; 
links[3]='http://www.amazon.com/affiliate_link_4; 
links[4]='http://www.amazon.com/affiliate_link_5; 
links[5]='http://www.amazon.com/affiliate_link_6; 

var xy=Math.floor(Math.random()*ad.length);
document.write('<a href="'+links[xy]+'" target="_blank"><img src="'+ad[xy]+'" width="'+img_width+'" height="'+img_height+'" alt="'+img_title+'"></a>');
</SCRIPT>
</center></td></tr></table></td></tr> 


Then, create a new CMPS Module:

>>Add Module >> PHP File

Module Title: Related Books
File to Include: books.php
Identifier: books
Clean File Output: yes
Use Module Shell Template: Yes

Other notes: I upload photos of the books that I feature to my server as it is more reliable for me and it allows me to resize images to about the size that this script requires. This code could be used in many other ways.

You can see this running on my website at:

http://www.timeshareforums.com

Edits:

29-Mar-2006: Changed Title from Java to Javascript

[COBRAws]

this is Javascript not java. Confusion is being made by the tittle given.

Congrats by the way.

[kofoid]

I think I may just have to give this a shot! Thanks!

[Trimos]

Just out of curiosity, what were the problems with the various ad rotation softwares ? Reason I ask is I'm using AdPeeps and like it except it seems to be causing the curious issue of logging out members when they don't want to be logged out.

[lorddomain]

Great! Thanks for this

[srilions]

<font color="DarkRed">can I use for this 3.8.4 ???????????????????????</font>