Banner Scheme

[Indy]

I've tried just about all of the banner programs. Either too much work to keep on top of things, additional server resources, etc. Plus, about 2 years or so ago I had to do something quickly to keep my sponsor's banners up and running. I too wanted something simple.

Open up and enter your banner info in banner.txt
Open up and edit the $base_dir, $img_url and $max information in banner.php

Upload banner.php and banner.txt to your forum's dir.

Place the following in your phpinclude_start template:
ob_start();
include("banner.php");
$showbanner = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Wherever you want the banner, insert $showbanner

This has been working great for me for the past two years. Yes, I have to open these two files whenever I add or change info but it only takes a couple minutes.

If a particular banner is expired, I just move it to a line down under the text "EXPIRED GOES HERE"

Remember to adjust the $max variable in banner.php to the number of line of banners you have in banner.txt.

Honestly, I thought that after I got my vB2.3 upgraded to vB3 that I would get a little fancier with this by making a table and adding banner/sponsor info in the database plus counting clicks, etc. But, like I said previously this thing works so great I may just leave it alone and K.I.S.S. it! :squareeyed:

Feel free to use it, hack it or whatever you want!