Mini Mods - Guest Floating Banner for VB4

Dear friends:

Trying to help some users, I copy the codes to have a guest floating banner like the one I got in my forum Agroforum.pe

The only problem is that when i scroll down the page, the banner goes down too and desappears from the screen, but this is a good mod to gain more users. It's in spanish right now, but yoy can put the message you want.

Paste this code at the begginig of HEADER:

<vb:if condition="$show['guest']"> 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
var persistclose=0 //set to 0 or 1. 1 means once the bar is manually closed, it will remain closed for browser session 
var startX = 30 //set x offset of bar in pixels 
var startY = 90 //set y offset of bar in pixels 
var verticalpos="fromtop" //enter "fromtop" or "frombottom" 
function iecompattest(){ 
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body 
} 
function get_cookie(Name) { 
var search = Name + "=" 
var returnvalue = ""; 
if (document.cookie.length > 0) { 
offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search) 
if (offset != -1) { 
offset += search.length 
end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset); 
if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; 
returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end)) 
} 
} 
return returnvalue; 
} 
function closebar(){ 
if (persistclose) 
document.cookie="remainclosed=1" 
document.getElementById("topbar").style.visibility="hidden" 
} 
function staticbar(){ 
barheight=document.getElementById("topbar").offsetHeight 
var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1) || window.opera; 
var d = document; 
function ml(id){ 
var el=d.getElementById(id); 
if (!persistclose || persistclose && get_cookie("remainclosed")=="") 
el.style.visibility="visible" 
if(d.layers)el.style=el; 
el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.left=x+"px";this.style.top=y+"px";}; 
el.x = startX; 
if (verticalpos=="fromtop") 
el.y = startY; 
else{ 
el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : iecompattest().scrollTop + iecompattest().clientHeight; 
el.y -= startY; 
} 
return el; 
} 
window.stayTopLeft=function(){ 
if (verticalpos=="fromtop"){ 
var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : iecompattest().scrollTop; 
ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8; 
} 
else{ 
var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight - barheight: iecompattest().scrollTop + iecompattest().clientHeight - barheight; 
ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y)/8; 
} 
ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y); 
setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10); 
} 
ftlObj = ml("topbar"); 
stayTopLeft(); 
} 
if (window.addEventListener) 
window.addEventListener("load", staticbar, false) 
else if (window.attachEvent) 
window.attachEvent("onload", staticbar) 
else if (document.getElementById) 
window.onload=staticbar 
</script> 
<div id="topbar"><p align="right"><a href="" onClick="closebar(); return false"><img src="http://static.sunnypages.jp/img/map/close_icon.gif" border="0" /></a> 
  </p> 
<img src="http://www.vbhispano.com/foros/images/icons/icon4.png" /> <b>Hola invitado! Para tener acceso completo y sin publicidades <a href="registro/"><u>registrese gratuitamente!</u></a></b><br> 
Imagen publicidad 
</div></vb:if>

This is the code to redirect the image to close the banner:

<p align="right"><a href="" onClick="closebar(); return false"><img src="http://static.sunnypages.jp/img/map/close_icon.gif" border="0" /></a> 
  </p>

This is the message:

<img src="http://www.vbhispano.com/foros/images/icons/icon4.png" /> <b>Hola invitado! Para tener acceso completo y sin publicidades <a href="registro/"><u>registrese gratuitamente!</u></a></b>

CSS code of div topbar, add to additional.css to modify the banner caracteristics:

#topbar { 
-webkit-border-radius:4px; 
-moz-border-radius:4px 4px 4px 4px; 
-moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 1px #666666; 
background-color:#ef8d31; 
border:1px solid #4A4848; 
color:white; 
max-width:338px; 
min-height:310px; 
padding:0 5px 3px; 
position:fixed; 
right:5%; 
top:8%; 
z-index:1; 
}

I hope the instructions are clear, because I dont speak english very well. And let me know if theres something the make the banner stay in its position, when scrollo down the screen.

Bye

Bruno

[ZomgStuff]

You should place your code in code tags as part of the TOS. This way unlicensed members cannot see it.

[Nocturnal222]

is this working?

[bcilloniz]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal222

is this working?

Yes, it's working... Try it, a tell me if you banner stays allways in its possition.

Luck

[bcilloniz]

Picture of the mod...

It's not a very simple mod, but its the only one for vb4 -I think-.

Hope someone like it..:up:

[Toorak Times]

Nice mate, ill put in soon.

[bnimbhal]

Hi,

Can you please let me know how to use it with Google Adsence.

Regards.
Bhanu

[ExcelFox]

You seem to have stopped it from disappearing below when the page is scrolled down. Can you tell us how you managed to do that?

[ExcelFox]

For those who are interested, here's how I solved it

<vb:if condition="$show['guest']"> 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
var persistclose=0 //set to 0 or 1. 1 means once the bar is manually closed, it will remain closed for browser session 
var startX = 1128 //set x offset of bar in pixels 
var startY = 54 //set y offset of bar in pixels 
var verticalpos="frombottom" //enter "fromtop" or "frombottom" 
function iecompattest(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function get_cookie(Name) {
var search = Name + "="
var returnvalue = "";
if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
if (offset != -1) {
offset += search.length
end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset);
if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length;
returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
}
}
return returnvalue;
}

function closebar(){
if (persistclose)
document.cookie="remainclosed=1"
document.getElementById("topbar").style.visibility="hidden"
}

function staticbar(){
	barheight=document.getElementById("topbar").offsetHeight
	var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1) || window.opera;
	var d = document;
	function ml(id){
		var el=d.getElementById(id);
		if (!persistclose || persistclose && get_cookie("remainclosed")=="")
		el.style.visibility="visible"
		if(d.layers)el.style=el;
		el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.left=x+"px";this.style.top=y+"px";};
		el.x = startX;
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
		el.y = startY;
		else{
		el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : iecompattest().scrollTop + iecompattest().clientHeight;
		el.y -= startY;
		}
		return el;
	}
	window.stayTopLeft=function(){
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop"){
		var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : iecompattest().scrollTop;
		ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		else{
		var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight - barheight: iecompattest().scrollTop + iecompattest().clientHeight - barheight;
		ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
		setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10);
	}
	ftlObj = ml("topbar");
	stayTopLeft();
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", staticbar, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", staticbar)
else if (document.getElementById)
window.onload=staticbar
</script>

<div id="topbar"><p align="right"><a href="" onClick="closebar(); return false"><img src="images/misc/exit_ico.jpg" border="0" /></a> 
  </p><font color="black"><b>Hello Guest! Have a question? <font color="green">ASK!</font></b><p>To post questions, download files and to provide solutions to queries <a href="register.php"><u>register for free!</u></a></p><p>Already a member? <a href="login.php?do=login"><u>Click here to sign in!</u></a></p></font><br>
</div></vb:if>

and

#topbar { 
border:0px solid #4A4848; 
background-color: rgb(255, 235, 144); 
opacity: 0.80;
color: white; 
max-width:265px; 
min-height:18px; 
padding: 10px 15px 0px 15px;
text-align: left;
position: absolute; 
right:0%; 
top: 80%; 
z-index:10;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px rgb(25, 25, 25);
visibility: hidden;
}

You can view the sample at http://www.excelfox.com/forum/forum.php

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Thanks for sharing this.
I'm using it to show a cookie warning (EU based site).