UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Archived Mods [6.2] Banner Ad Rotator

Mod Name: Banner Ad Rotator 1.0

Description: This is a simple rotation tool, which pulls banners (or content) from a private forum and feeds it randomly into a box at the top of your site, just above your menu bar. There is an option to stick a particular banner, rather than using the random rotation, in the event of something you wish to promote, like a special or a sale.

Since this simply pulls post content... it could be used for anything... random quotes, joke of the day, etc... it simply pulls the post body... text or images.

Author: JoshPet of www.joshuapettit.com
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Credits: Commissioned by www.drugbuyers.com

Demo: www.measurection.com

Date: 2/24/03

Working Under: 6.2

Files Modified: ubbt.inc.php

New Files: bannerad.php

Database Modifications: None

Notes: This allows you to store, add, edit or delete your banners just by adding or removing them from a forum. Simple interface.

cool mod... can it be turned off and on?

If the "banner" forum is empty nothing will appear.

Cool I can just move them to a hidden forum... Thanks Josh another great mod

For some reason i'm getting this "Parse error: parse error in /www/prowrestlingforum.com/threads/bannerad.php on line 92"

I can't see why there would be a parse error there. It's in the echo of the output, and halfway through it at that.

Did you do any editing?

Nope, i've installed it twice just to make sure that I didn't mess up the first time

Well i've installed mods (not part of this)

I'm getting it too. Have done the hack twice.

[]Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in my directory/ubbthreads/bannerad.php on line 92
[/]Funny thing is... there is no $ on line 92. There is one on line 91 but it's a necessary one.

Any feedback on this yet?

Ah I missed this.

Maybe making a template for it will solve the issue.

I'll look at this in a bit when I get time and see if that solves it.

Thank you, I appreciate it..

I was all set to go with this... even had the first banner of "This space for rent" all made up.

Hate to be a PITA on this... but I really, really need this one... really!

Any chance of figuring out what that parse error means and how to fix it? Please? (if I could find a begging smilie, I'd insert it here)

Ah I'd forgotten. I"ll take a look in a bit.

Thanks much!!!

thanks, I'm waiting for the fix too.

Sasha, caspe7... I'm kind of stumped on this...as the error is within the HTML. But I changed this to use a template instead.

Try this and see if it works (attached to this post). Let me know. This has a template file to be put in /templates/default directory.

I'm trying it. I'll report back in a few minutes.

Now I have this error:

[]Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in my directory/ubbthreads/templates/default/banner.tmpl on line 17[/]

I'm stumped why this doesn't work for some people. I called in the calvary here.

One last thing you could try. The couple of variables in the Template file... place them inside brackets, like this {$banner}

Worth a shot.

Dave_L posted something for you to try in that other thread. Me testing does no good.... because it always worked for me.

I posted in the PHP board because I figurd I'd done something wrong.... but If I did Dave_L didn't notice it. But maybe there is something offensive in the banner itself.

Let us know.

Thanks, I did what it said in the other topic, I think I messed it up (where I put it), and it showed it couple of times (2 out of place, 1 the normal place), so i deleted it and It worked how it should, don't know why

I got a question now that it works

Is there a simple way, to be able to turn it off on a user? forexample if someone hated it so much (if they are on a 56k) that they would pay money to have it removed.

(I know theres the sidebar that can do that, but I didn't like the sidebar too much some reason it made everything look odd)

I've done that on my site.

I include it on the top and bottom of every page. If they are a paid supporter... they have the option of turning the top banner off.

I haven't written up the code yet. If I can get to it, I will do it and post it.

It appears to be just a problem in using the echo command. I get the same compilation error. But the fix is simple enough just replace the echo block at the end:



with simple print statements, not as pretty, but it does compile:

Works like a charm! Thanks James...

Thank you.

[]JoshPet said:
I've done that on my site.

I include it on the top and bottom of every page. If they are a paid supporter... they have the option of turning the top banner off.

I haven't written up the code yet. If I can get to it, I will do it and post it. [/]

Oh yes Josh, can you please do so?

Would be nice if the banner will only be shown for some usergroups and not for all.

Works for 6.3 - reposted here.