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

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by luiseman

the prefix table is none.

Your not really giving me much to go on, it has to be something that you have done wrong, try reinstalling it but without your modification and see if it works then.

If it doesn't work I will happily install it for you, I've already done it for several people, just pm me with your admin login details, ftp & mysql, apart from that with out a proper description of what you are doing and what is not happening there's not a lot I can do.

[nelto]

is by any chance some one tested this hack on 3.0.3?

I was looking for something like this.

[Doc203]

Yes... it works fine on 3.03

[Mu5icMan]

Could this be modified so you can upload the banners from your computer to the appropriate directory instead of using ftp.

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by Mu5icMan

Could this be modified so you can upload the banners from your computer to the appropriate directory instead of using ftp.

You mean by selecting it from a browse box in the AdminCP or to use a separate upload script?

Either way the answer would be yes but then you would still have to delete them using ftp, but I don't have the time to make the changes I'm busy working on other projects, and there wouldn't be much of a gain in doing it, but if someone wants to try they are more than welcome.

[Mu5icMan]

I mean by selecting it from a browse box.

If it's ok with you can i made changes to your hack to allow this.

After i'm done shall i post it here, or pm you with it to make sure it's acceptable.

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by Mu5icMan

I mean by selecting it from a browse box.

If it's ok with you can i made changes to your hack to allow this.

After i'm done shall i post it here, or pm you with it to make sure it's acceptable.

Feel free to do it, I have been going to do a similar thing to another hack I have done but just haven't had the time

[Marulatree]

(or anyone that can answer this:

How do I link these to a website?


$banner_array = array(
'images/banner1.jpg',
'images/banner2.jpg',
'images/banner3.jpg'

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

People If you wanna do banner rotation just use something much simpler

1. Go to whichever style you want banner rotated. (Style Manager > Style Name > All Style Options)

2. In The phpinclude_start box insert this

PHP Code:

// Foreach banner you want to rotate insert a a line such as:
// 'images/bannerx.gif',
$banner_array = array(
  'images/banner1.jpg',
  'images/banner2.jpg',
  'images/banner3.jpg'
);
$banner = $banner_array[mt_rand(0,count($banner_array)-1)]; 


3. In the header template replace the section that deals with the img tag with something like this

<img src="$banner" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" usemap="#Map" />

Basically you're just changing the the src to the $banner variable... very easy requires no special html or javascript or any of that stuff..

[Marulatree]

bumper-bump-bump...

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by Marulatree

bumper-bump-bump...

1.4 No senseless "Bumping": Please do not bump your request/help searching or other threads several times a day. Remember there are people who don't browse this board every hour. So do not bump a thread within 24h or too much even after 24 hours.