Thanks Chronos,
I've been trying sidebar.tpl because it handles the right side and where I want the banners to site, but even with the below code, the banners only appear on the top page.

{if $CURRENT_PAGE == ''}
<!-- #stats -->
<div id="stats">
<strong>{$translations.category.total_jobs} : {$jobs_count_all} </strong>
<br />
{foreach item=job from=$jobs_count_all_categs}
<a href="{$BASE_URL}jobs/{$job.categ_varname}/">{$job.categ_name}</a> : <strong>{$job.categ_count}</strong> <br />
    {/foreach}
</div>
{/if}

<img src="img/bannerNo1.jpg" />                 
<img src="img/bannerNo2.jpg" />                 
<img src="img/bannerNo3.jpg" />                 

Could you explain in a bit more detail how to insert the below banner table into the index.php? (my PHP is only basic)

<table>
<tr>
<td> <img src="img/bannerNo1.jpg" /> </td>
</tr>
</table>

Thank you.

Actually just forgot to type of in the thread here. They're in the code. ( added the extensions in the above post to be more accurate)

The banners show on the top page...they just don't appear on the other pages...

The solution that links offers should work, and turning it in a link should be easy. I'm a fan of splitting the code and design between the PHP and TPL files, so here's an easy solution to have random images displayed at one or all pages.

I'm not sure if you're going to use an existing banner management system or make a custom though (if people request this I can make something for the admin panel, I'm going to need it in the future anyway).

1. Add in sidebar.tpl or wherever you want the banner:

{if $banner_1}<span style='banner-style1'>{$banner_1}</span>{/if}

2. Open index.php for banner info (would be better if it's pulled from the database and manageable from the admin panel ofcourse):

Find:

    if(!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
       $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] = '';
    }

Add under:

// Random Banners Script

  $ammount = '6'; //The ammount of banners available (all should be set below)
  $randomize = Rand (1,$ammount); //Picks one randomly (all equal chance)

  switch($randomize)
  {
    case 1: $image = 'banner_1.gif'; $url = 'http://www.jobberbase.com/page-1'; $bannertext = 'Jobberbase Website'; break;
    case 2: $image = 'banner_2.gif'; $url = 'http://www.jobberbase.com/page-2'; $bannertext = 'Jobberbase Website'; break;
    case 3: $image = 'banner_3.gif'; $url = 'http://www.jobberbase.com/page-3'; $bannertext = 'Jobberbase Website'; break;
    case 4: $image = 'banner_4.gif'; $url = 'http://www.jobberbase.com/page-4'; $bannertext = 'Jobberbase Website'; break;
    case 5: $image = 'banner_5.gif'; $url = 'http://www.jobberbase.com/page-5'; $bannertext = 'Jobberbase Website'; break;
    case 6: $image = 'banner_6.gif'; $url = 'http://www.jobberbase.com/page-6'; $bannertext = 'Jobberbase Website'; break;
  }

  $banner_1 = '<a href="'.$url.'" title="'.$bannertext.'"><img src="'.BASE_URL.'img/banners/'.$image.'" alt="'.$bannertext.'" /></a>';
  $smarty->assign('banner_1', $banner_1);

// End Random Banners Script

You can adjust the CSS to add different styles to the <span>, like you should remove any mouse-over effect for links as it would be ugly with images. Note that I didn't test this code, let me know if it works or not.

Last edited by Chronos (2009-01-07 23:00:03)

Tokyoj how did the banner go?

I am too looking for a way to insert some banners or even google adsense on the right side sidebar.tpl? Really for now im looking at just doing adsense so would it apply the same way as what Chronos explained above?

How do I add an additional column in footer.tpl for my banner section? Now when I insert the Google code the banner is not aligned center even when I center is it seem more aligned right. When I align left the banner moves all the way to the left of the page. http://www.inerc.com/testing/

I am using OpenAds which is now called OpenX.  I prefer OpenAds because it is simple, easy interface and it doesn't require many things OpenX requires on your Server.

I highly recommend OpenAds.