Banner Rotational / Changes.

[killerford]

I see mods for Rotational banners that's for ad's on your forum but nothing like this for banners as in your website banner.. I run a gaming forum and have loads of different themes and colours and different banners. I would like to get it down to one theme and colour and a rotational banners for all different games that we play.

Is this possible?

[killerford]

Anyone know?

[Lynne]

Yes, it is possible. Have you done a search? I see a ton of banner mods for vB4 that are not ad related.

[killerford]

Am I searching for the wrong key words? I just see ad banners. You have any links?

[Revelence]

If you're trying to just rotate the banner, you can make a plugin. Here's a plugin that should work.

ob_start();
	$banners 	= array('banner_1', 'banner_2', 'banner_3');
	$rand 		= rand(0, count($banners) - 1);
	echo $banners[$rand];
	$php_include = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
vB_Template::preRegister('header',array('random_image_background' => $php_include));

Now edit your header template of your theme. Search for where ever the logo is being called at, and replace

<img src="blablabla" />

with

<img src="{vb:raw random_image_background}" />

Replace the banner_1, banner_2, and so on with your banners. You can add more then 3, and you don't need more then 1.

[killerford]

Sorry but, how do you make a plugin? Never done a plugin.

[Revelence]

Originally Posted by killerford

Sorry but, how do you make a plugin? Never done a plugin.

Admincp -> Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin

Also make the hook location global_bootstrap_init_start

[killerford]

Originally Posted by Revelence

Admincp -> Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin

Also make the hook location global_bootstrap_init_start

And where do I change the hook location?

[Revelence]

It's in option when creating a new plugin. Here's an example, this is how mine was when I was testing the plugin.

[killerford]

Originally Posted by Revelence

If you're trying to just rotate the banner, you can make a plugin. Here's a plugin that should work.

ob_start();
	$banners 	= array('banner_1', 'banner_2', 'banner_3');
	$rand 		= rand(0, count($banners) - 1);
	echo $banners[$rand];
	$php_include = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
vB_Template::preRegister('header',array('random_image_background' => $php_include));

Now edit your header template of your theme. Search for where ever the logo is being called at, and replace

<img src="blablabla" />

with

<img src="{vb:raw random_image_background}" />

Replace the banner_1, banner_2, and so on with your banners. You can add more then 3, and you don't need more then 1.

Could you give me a little more help regarding this post? You say search where my logo is being placed? you mean in my FTP? If so it's in the theme that I'm using so Seamus and misc. Or is there something I've missed? With this Seamus theme I have our clan logo in the left hand side and behind it I have a 1225x300 banner that I'm wanting to have rotate with different banners which is located in the same area but in a background folder.