Banner setup

revision · New Member Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 12

I installed my theme, will be doing major editing later.

But when I checked the bottom to see the footer banner placement, all I see is error codes. I then checked to see if the banner.php file was installed and it wasent. Could this nuke theme be a later theme ment for something above 7.6?

You can see the error youself if needed.

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You guys have been a big help so far. I do thank you for your time.

Raven · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:40 pm

First of all you need to turn the error display off as you are revealing the direct/absolute path to you files Sad

banners.php was done away with in v7.8 of regular phpnuke. RavenNuke(tm) also does not use it. The new and improved banner system is replaced by a more flexible Advertising module.

montego · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:10 pm

revision, the new Advertising module requires you to use ads(0), ads(1), etc... to place those specific N ads where you want within the theme or blocks. Just remember that this function returns a string value. I.e., it doesn't echo anything out to the output...

revision · New Member Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 12

I left the errors up just so a few can see them. But I figured out a why to hide the advertising error. I put up a place holder banners.php file.

I am very new to this and I have to work through things slowely.

I have a better question what file controlls the placement of the actual banner. If I can work around my problem myself I will learn nuke alot faster.

I do have a ferm grip of css and html. But php/nuke is very new to me. I can read through it and sort of understand it. As you can see ive started editing the theme.

wait. wait. wait. what would happen if I echoed the string value of the banner in a new banners text and let the theme controll the banners placement?

Raven · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:41 pm

Re: Error display

A more secure way is to turn error logging on and write the errors to a log file and then review the log. Or, turn error display off and just view the errors in the server error log.

montego · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:31 pm

Quote:

I have a better question what file controlls the placement of the actual banner

This is usually done within your theme files. Unfortunately, there are many different ways that themes can be architected. However, one thing is certain, each theme MUST have a theme.php script with the key functions inside, such as themeheader(), themefooter(), etc. But, each of these could also be pulling in files like header.html.

Take a look at fisubice which comes with RavenNuke and find how ads(0) is being used. That should give you some ideas... Wink

revision · New Member Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 12

Ok.... I located the place where the new theme is looking for the banners.php file..... Is there something I can replace this with?

The line is: include("banners.php");

Code:

<?php
echo"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">"
. " <tr>"
. " <td colspan=\"3\"><img name=\"footer_r1_c1\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r1_c1.gif\" width=\"244\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r1_c4\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r1_c4.gif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r1_c5\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r1_c5.gif\" width=\"13\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td colspan=\"3\"><img name=\"footer_r1_c6\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r1_c6.gif\" width=\"513\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r1_c9\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r1_c9.gif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r1_c10\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r1_c10.gif\" width=\"49\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " </tr>"
. " <tr>"
. " <td background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c1.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c2.gif\" class=\"copyright\">$footer_message</td>"
. " <td background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c3.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td width=\"50%\" background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c4.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c5.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td colspan=\"2\" background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c6.gif\">\n";
if ($banners)
{
include("banners.php");
}
echo "</td>"
. " <td background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c8.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td width=\"50%\" background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c9.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td background=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r2_c10.gif\"> </td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"53\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " </tr>"
. " <tr>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r3_c1\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c1.gif\" width=\"60\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td colspan=\"2\"><img name=\"footer_r3_c2\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c2.gif\" width=\"184\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r3_c4\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c4.gif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r3_c5\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c5.gif\" width=\"13\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r3_c6\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c6.gif\" width=\"280\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td colspan=\"2\"><img name=\"footer_r3_c7\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c7.gif\" width=\"233\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r3_c9\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c9.gif\" width=\"100%\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img name=\"footer_r3_c10\" src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/footer_r3_c10.gif\" width=\"49\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"32\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " </tr>"
. " <tr>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"60\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"175\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"9\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"6\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"13\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"280\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"224\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"9\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"5\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"49\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " <td><img src=\"themes/TechraDark/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"></td>"
. " </tr>"
. "</table>";
?>

montego · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:49 pm

Well, without seeing the rest of theme.php (no, please do not post it here unless you post a link to maybe a text file of it), but maybe try changing this code here:

Code:

if ($banners)
{
include("banners.php");
}

with

Code:

if ($banners)
{
echo ads(0);
}

And make sure you have at least one ad to show up in position 0 so that you can see if it is working or not.

revision · New Member Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 12

Guess what..... It worked. Smile

Raven · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:41 pm

revision · New Member Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 12

The only thing that I cant seem to get working is the headernav.... So I took it out. Who needs a header nav anyway. Smile