Rotating Forum Banners

Rotating Forum Banners

Tested on vBulletin 3.0.1


I have seen this sort of hack requested many times so I thought I would spend a bit of time and create one.

This will add upto 3 rotating image banners with links on each of your forums using your AdminCP.

The orignal slide show script came from Dynamic Drive

Some values you can change in the script are for pause between next image, animation speed and image size, just find:

var trans_width='480px' //slideshow width
var trans_height='60px' //slideshow height
var pause=5000 //SET PAUSE BETWEEN SLIDE (3000=3 seconds)
var degree=10 //animation speed. Greater is faster

If you use this please click install, thanks

[Spinball]

PHP Code:

$banners = array (
        "banner1.gif|redirect1.pl|alt text 1|0|468|60",
        "banner2.gif|redirect2.pl|alt text 2|0|468|60"
);
$banner = $banners[mt_rand(0,sizeof($banners) - 1)];
list($imgsrc,$myurl,$alttext,$border,$width,$height) = explode ('|',$banner); 


This code is what is used on a normal website. You'll have to use something different for vB, I expect. Haven't looked at the rest of the thread.

echo("<A HREF=\"http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/$myurl\" TARGET = \"_blank\"><IMG src=\"http://www.yoursite.com/banners/$imgsrc?" . mt_rand(1,999) . "\" border=\"$border\" width=\"$width\" height = \"$height\" alt=\"$alttext\"></A>");

Clicking the banners fires the perl script in your cgi-bin folder. This is so you can run reports on your activity log file to count the number of times each perl script has been opened. This is the number of clicks of each banner.

Hope this helps.

[DoKoK]

does it work on 3.0.3?

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by DoKoK

does it work on 3.0.3?

Yes

[dano]

Originally Posted by jluerken

I want to have those three rotating banners on the FORUMHOME page directly under the navbar.

How can I do so?

I think this can be also done or?

I would also love this. Anyone know how do to it?

Also, I just installed this on a clean install of 3.0.3 and it works perfect. Great work.

[TunerNetwork]

I'm having a lil trouble installing this, can someone help me out, id greatly appreciate it! I need this for my forum: http://www.tunernetwork.com

Email me or pm me, thanks! zazza_ceo@TunerNetwork.com

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by TunerNetwork

I'm having a lil trouble installing this, can someone help me out, id greatly appreciate it! I need this for my forum: http://www.tunernetwork.com

Email me or pm me, thanks! zazza_ceo@TunerNetwork.com

PM sent

[dano]

OK, 1 issue. When people go to use the search function on the forum where the banner is, the banner covers the search box. How can this be fixed??

Also, I want to have those three rotating banners on the FORUMHOME page directly under the navbar, can anyone tell me how to do this?

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by dano

Also, I want to have those three rotating banners on the FORUMHOME page directly under the navbar, can anyone tell me how to do this?

Hopefully you'll be able to find something useful at
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67942

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by dano

OK, 1 issue. When people go to use the search function on the forum where the banner is, the banner covers the search box. How can this be fixed??

Can you post a screen shot or give the link to your forum

[SternFan]

Originally Posted by Beermonster

Can you post a screen shot or give the link to your forum

Same Problem here....