Module: Banner Manager

Re: Module: Banner Manager

James E. — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:55:23 -0500

Answered my own question, apparently.

Turned on "Do not display the banner code automatically"

Inserted { MOD_BANNER_MANAGER } in header.tpl right before the search-area div.

That seems to have done the trick and not broken anything (that I have found, anyway).

Re: Module: Banner Manager

James E. — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:10:01 -0500

Thanks to this thread I bumped the position of the banners to be above the announcements, which is handy. Now I have an additional question/problem.

On the read pages the post title and search box are above the banners, which puts distance between them and the body of the message. What would be the best way to adjust this positioning?

Appreciate any assistance or guidance.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

rchecka — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:15:02 -0500

I thought I'd contribute for a change instead of just asking questions...

The following code in the banner manager is a open source "Simple Gallery" javascript I found online that is cross platform browser friendly (works on all smart phones!) that is a simple rotating jpg code so you can rotate through various jpg banners and link each one accordingly...

[code="javascript"]
"[www.w3.org];
www.w3.org]; lang="en" xml:lang="en">

[/code]

This looks very nice, I think others might be able to make good use of it.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

rchecka — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:18:30 -0500

How would one go about putting an HTML5 video in the banner manager?
I've done a little digging and tested out various chunks of code with no luck.
Is that supported in this module?

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:09:23 -0500

The banner manager doesn't really do much with the blocks of HTML code, besides injecting them in the page.

You could start by viewing the source of that front page. Then compare the code that you find in that page's source with the code that you expect to see. If the code is the same, then it is not a Phorum module issue.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

sif4ever — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:03:57 -0500

Who to insert Swf files in the bannersystem?

I have try:

fpdownload.macromedia.com]; width="930" height="180" id="tech" align="middle">

www.macromedia.com]; />

The preview show the banner but not on the frontpage.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

pulloff — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:07:26 -0600

Maurice,

Well, I got it to work, but in a hack way that works OK for now. I actually just copied the mod to a new folder… banner_manager_2. I then went through all the files in the new folder (thankfully only 11 files) and did a simple text replacement and changed all instances of “banner_manager” to… “banner_manager_2”. A quick template change and it works like a charm.

I’ve wanted to float a vertical banner to the right on some pages, and now this will allow me to create a third instance of the banner manager and do that.

Thanks again for this great mod, it has tons of uses and my brain is spinning with other ways to implement it.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:00:12 -0600

It's not supported by the module in any way. The only way would be to write a new module or update the code for this module to meet this requirement.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

pulloff — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:36:44 -0600

I’ve been using this mod for a few years now and I love it. I use it at the top and bottom of my “list” pages and I was wondering if it was possible to make the module show 2 different banners per page? Right now the banners are random, but they same banner at the top and the bottom. I’d like the top banner to be random, and the bottom banner to be random as well but not always the same as the top banner.

I tried installing a second version or the module in a new folder under a new name (banner_manager_2) but unfortunately it’s not quite that simple. Any help on creating a separate instance of the banner manager would be great.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:52:04 -0500

Yessssss! It helps a lot and it solves the problem 100%.
Thanks Maurice... as usual ;-)

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:48:06 -0500

Including remote files via HTTP is a security risk, therefore most PHP installations have it disabled. Your second include tries to do a remove include (even though it's on the same server as your Phorum; PHP doesn't care about that).

Local inclusion should be fine as you already found out. Maybe something like this helps:

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:39:00 -0500

One last question.
I have managed to use the include function correctly if I give the relative path for the template manually:

mypath/file.htm'?>

But for some reasons I ca't automate the template path as per your last suggestion:

dir/file.htm'?>

It's for sure my lack of PHP programming knowledge :-)

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:31:49 -0500

Oh yes not it works fine, thanks ;-)

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:04:48 -0500

It works for me. Beware that this won't work when doing previews within the banner manager, since at that point, no template data has been setup. The URL variable will be empty and the URL will be simply "/banners/test.gif".

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:44:15 -0500

So if the following is the end code:

/banners/test.gif">

then it doesn't work.
Still releases the following URL: [www.dubaimania.net]

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:35:38 -0500

No, it must be me. I'm missing a member in there. That's what you get for not testing. Try this (also untested ;-)

$GLOBALS['PHORUM']['DATA']['URL']['TEMPLATE']

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:22:33 -0500

Ok so on the banner editing my full sentence is:
/banners/test.gif">

But it gives me the following url:

[www.dubaimania.net]

instead of:

[www.dubaimania.net]

I am surely doing something wrong somewhere... :-)

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:30:48 -0500

You might be able to use template variables (their PHP counterpart):

/banners/example.jpg

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:58:29 -0500

I would like to dynamically link to different banner material, based on the active template where I have created a "/banners" directory purposely. Could you specify where to insert $PHORUM['template'] ?

Thanks!

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:33:45 -0500

You can put HTML and PHP code in the banner code. If you want to dynamically link to different banner material, based on the active template, then you should format your URLs by including things like $PHORUM['http_path'] and $PHORUM['template'] in there. It should be doable that way.

If you want to simply store your files in a template dir, but without the need of dynamically using files from different templates, then you could of course opt for static URLs (either relative or absolute) in the banner HTML code.

If you want to make use of Phorum's template variables, then banner manager is not for you. You could then change your strategy and implement the banner code directly in the templates, where you can make of the available template variables for formatting URLs to your template dir.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Nicola — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:05:58 -0500

Hi there!
Any chance of placing the files (images or flash) into the template folder and making reference to it?

Re: Module: Banner Manager

edumus — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:15:44 -0600

I'm using the 1.04 version of Banner Manager. I'd like it to display banner only in the list pages of the forum and not in the read pages. Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

korsakov — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:52:02 -0500

coughing slightly ...

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Maurice Makaay — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:41:25 -0500

Remedy: upgrade to the latest stable Phorum version.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

korsakov — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:28:32 -0500

On activating the "Banner Module" in the Admin panel the system currently is responding with the following error message:

Banner Manager Module Settings
Fatal error: Call to undefined function phorum_admin_build_url()

Any remedy available? Thank you!

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Anonymous User — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:33 -0500

What would be a nice feature: allowing the display of banners according to the exact path of particular general pages.

I don't ask anything, i just think aloud.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Anonymous User — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:47:55 -0500

One can easily add or remove general pages to the Banner Manager Module Settings configuration in modifying the setting_pages.php and the banner_manager.php of the module. I've personally added list.php and the addon.php into the list.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Greg2k9 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:33:02 -0500

Thx for this update Maurice

Re: Module: Banner Manager

flip3 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:34:16 -0500

Many thanks! On my website it is also running smoothly now.

Re: Module: Banner Manager

Phil — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:48:33 -0500

Nice one Maurice!
All working fine now and able to see where the main code goes now, couldn't see that before because of the timeouts and it was confusing me...
Thanks a lot.
Phil