Forum Display Enhancements - Add a banner image to each forum (vb3.6)

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[HowTo] Add a banner option image to each forum w/ Link V.1.7
Tested on vBulletin: 3.6.4

Zachariah - http://www.gzhq.net

This is an update of my previous hack:
*** Add a banner image to each forum (VB 3.5x)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=94119

DEMO
- banner for an on-line game clan/guild.

*** Info:

• This modification will Add an image banner w/ link Or paste in your own HTML code option per forum.
• These files can be any image. (png, jpg, gif, ect).
• This will be located after the $navbar on FORMDISPLAY and SHOWTREAD.
• This images can be located on the localhost or on a remote server.

Changelog:
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1.7
- str_replace used to place hack at $navbar in FORUMDISPLAY, SHOWTHREAD.
- choice to show in thread per forum.
- Place $add_banner in template if str_replace fails to work.
- add_banner template added


1.6
Banner shows up on each thread
adds: 1 more template edit to the install
Requested by: - Ryan McBain

** Note: 1.5 - 1.6 needs only to edit SHOWTHREAD not Reinstall the XML files

1.5
Added HTML option
Added 3.x to VB 3.5 upgrade XML file.

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[Zachariah]

1st post

*** Useage:
These files can be any image. (png, jpg, gif, ect) or paste your HTML code.

To add banners go to:

Forums & Moderators => Forum Manager => Edit/Add Forum =>
scroll do to the bottom enter your details.

This script has a few options.
-
By default install it will attempt to place itself
in FORUMDISPLAY, SHOWTHREAD under location "$navbar" in the templates. If for some
reason your banner does not show up you edit and place $add_banner within the templates.

[Zachariah]

Here is a simple JAVA random banner code you can paste in the HTML area of any forum.

EX:
This will show @ random.

image1.jpg @ http://www.yoursite1.com
image2.jpg @ http://www.yoursite2.com
image3.jpg @ http://www.yoursite3.com

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
function banner() { 
}; 

banner = new banner(); 
number = 0; 

// bannerArray 
banner[number++] = "<a href='http://www.yoursite1.com' target='_blank'><img src='/banners/image1.jpg' alt='' border='0' /></a>"
banner[number++] = "<a href='http://www.yoursite2.com' target='_blank'><img src='/banners/image2.jpg' alt='' border='0' /></a>"
banner[number++] = "<a href='http://www.yoursite3.com' target='_blank'><img src='/banners/image3.jpg' alt='' border='0' /></a>" 
 
// keep adding items above here... 

increment = Math.floor(Math.random() * number); 
document.write(banner[increment]); 

//-->
</script>

Useage: If you need more banners edit / add another row.

banner[number++] = "<a href='http://www.yoursite1.com' target='_blank'><img src='/banners/image1.jpg' alt='' border='0' /></a>"

Link of Destination
Image location

[projectego]

Thank you very much, Zachariah!

[high]* projectego clicks install[/high]

[Veer]

WOW, Thanks a Lot Zachariah

*Installed*

[ShackMaster]

I'm not able to get this to work, either with a single banner or with the script for random banners.

Instead of placing the $add_banner in Forumdisplay and Showthread, could it be added in the Navbar template?

[Replicators]

What don't make sense is the 3.5.x version works just fine for the 3.6, so whats the sense in a update?

[firstrebel]

Installed then uninstalled, for a few reasons.

1] Could not get it to work, just got red X's, in fact got 2 red x's, and I had 5 image files in the scripts. Tried full URL and relative URL.

2] Putting this in each forum is a bit of a long job as I have 40+ forums and I could not get it to work on the forum homepage at all. I would have thought putting the code in the navbar template would be better, then they appear in forumhome and all other forums. I tried that but that didn't work either.

I am obviously doing something wrong, but what. One thing I can't work out is

href='http://www.yoursite1.com' 
href='http://www.yoursite2.com'

what do I put if it's all on one site.

Bob

[Jonathan Young]

Hi i updated, then uninstall ed because i had a problem with my images displaying multiple times. I also reinstalled, images still show multiple times website www.bgleague.com/forum

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by ShackMaster

I'm not able to get this to work, either with a single banner or with the script for random banners.

Instead of placing the $add_banner in Forumdisplay and Showthread, could it be added in the Navbar template?

Yes you can but it will only show the banner image on forumdisplay and show thread.

EX:
On the forumdisplay:

$search_text = '$navbar';
$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace($search_text,
$search_text.fetch_template('add_banner'), $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']);

This looks @ the template FORUMDISPLAY for $navbar and if found it places the content of add_banner under it. If you have a custom style that has removed $navbar there is a option to place $add_banner.

Originally Posted by Replicators

What don't make sense is the 3.5.x version works just fine for the 3.6, so whats the sense in a update?

Many do not look in old 3.5 area.

Originally Posted by firstrebel

Installed then uninstalled, for a few reasons.

1] Could not get it to work, just got red X's, in fact got 2 red x's, and I had 5 image files in the scripts. Tried full URL and relative URL.

2] Putting this in each forum is a bit of a long job as I have 40+ forums and I could not get it to work on the forum homepage at all. I would have thought putting the code in the navbar template would be better, then they appear in forumhome and all other forums. I tried that but that didn't work either.

I am obviously doing something wrong, but what. One thing I can't work out is

href='http://www.yoursite1.com' 
href='http://www.yoursite2.com'

what do I put if it's all on one site.

Bob

Take a look: Google image, Google News, Froogle

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
function banner() { 
}; 

banner = new banner(); 
number = 0; 

// bannerArray 
banner[number++] = "<a href='http://www.google.com/' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif' alt='' border='0' /></a>"
banner[number++] = "<a href='http://news.google.com/' target='_blank'><img src='http://news.google.com/images/news.gif' alt='' border='0' /></a>"
banner[number++] = "<a href='http://froogle.google.com/' target='_blank'><img src='http://froogle.google.com/froogle/intl/en_us/images/froogle_110tall.gif' alt='' border='0' /></a>" 
 
// keep adding items above here... 

increment = Math.floor(Math.random() * number); 
document.write(banner[increment]); 

//-->
</script>