Module: Banner Manager

coughing slightly ...

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.

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

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.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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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!

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

<?php print $GLOBALS['PHORUM']['URL']['TEMPLATE'] ?>/banners/example.jpg

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Ok so on the banner editing my full sentence is:
<img src="<?php print $GLOBALS['PHORUM']['URL']['TEMPLATE'] ?>/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... :-)

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']

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

So if the following is the end code:

<img src="<?php print $GLOBALS['PHORUM']['DATA']['URL']['TEMPLATE'] ?>/banners/test.gif">

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

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".

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce