Adding a top block to the forum posting page

[Replayuk]

I was thinking of adding a banner modification, But then i thought would it be possible to add a block to the top of each forum where they post and put the banner code into the block.

Does anyone have any idea`s if this would work.

Cheers for reading everyone.

[lurkalot]

I was thinking of adding a banner modification, But then i thought would it be possible to add a block to the top of each forum where they post and put the banner code into the block.

Does anyone have any idea`s if this would work.

Cheers for reading everyone.

Do you want to show the same single banner, or a batch of random displayed banners to each board, or all pages? 

[Replayuk]

Random banners to advertising companies on if thats possible, would this be in html code to add to the block that i`m going to be putting in the sections,
P:s yes it needs to be displayed on all pages in posted areas.

Thankyou

[lurkalot]

Random banners to advertising companies on if thats possible, would this be in html code to add to the block that i`m going to be putting in the sections,
P:s yes it needs to be displayed on all pages in posted areas.

Thankyou

You could use script such as this one, https://markinns.com/archive/random-banner-script-using-php.html

Added to a php block  Obviously you'll have to add your own images and urls, but as an example I just stuck it on the top of one of my test sites, It should change banner randomly every page load. https://cctestsite.info/testsite3/index.php

Or if you're not using the news function for anything in SMF, then you can also use that to do the same thing. And display that in a TP news block.

[Replayuk]

So how would i make that happen, say this is my link to my logo`s i want to be rotated.
http://www.tomysite.co.uk//forum/Header/blurrblurr.png" />

And Below is the php code, how would the link be put into that code below, If you could give me an example so i can modify the php code to get the link to banner logos.

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<?php
$advert = array();
  $advert[] = '<a href="#">Banner 1</a>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="#">Banner 2</a>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="#">Banner 3</a>';
shuffle($advert);
echo $advert[0];
?>

I was thinking it could be something like this maybe.

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$advert[] = '<a href="#">http://www.tomysite.co.uk//forum/Header/blurrblurr.png" />
</a>';

[lurkalot]

You don't need to ad the php tags when adding to a php block, so I've removed them below. And added what you need to add where,

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$advert = array();
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><img src="link to image"></a>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><img src="link to image"></a>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><img src="link to image"></a>';
shuffle($advert);
echo $advert[0];


[Replayuk]

Works great thankyou so much for all your help.

[Replayuk]

I was just wondering as the code above does work great for what i`m after, but could it be made possile to alter the code so the banners its displaying would be made central.

Thankyou for your time helping out.

[lurkalot]

I'm not good with this css stuff, so on my example I just wrapped each banner in a html center tag.  But I believe that's not recommended nowadays.  So you could also do it like this, which is on my testsite atm.

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$advert = array();
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor">[code]
$advert = array();
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="link to image"></a></p>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="link to image"></a></p>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="link to image"></a></p>';
shuffle($advert);
echo $advert[0];


Obviously if you search around on the web you'll probably find better solutions for doing all this random banner stuff, there's loads of different options out there.

[Replayuk]

I`m very happy with the first php code i was just wondering if there is a command that i could add to that php code at the top to make the banner images go central.


That would be perfect, or is there a setting in tiny portal that i can click to make the block go central.

So using this code there must be some way of making the images go central.

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$advert = array();
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><img src="link to image"></a>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><img src="link to image"></a>';
  $advert[] = '<a href="link to vendor"><img src="link to image"></a>';
shuffle($advert);
echo $advert[0];



Thankyou for taking the time to help