how to display the banner that i have created

[soibaal]

Dear friends

I have created an image banner (tools >> banner manager) and set it active.

1) while creating it i have not used a target dir 'in target save to' but in the images directory itself.

I am not able to see the banner in the home page.

How do i show it. kindly help.

regards
ashok dhar

[soibaal]

Hello

Are banner under tools section and banner under affiliates different or are they linked internally.

I am asking this because i have created banner in tools>>banners and set it active and those banners are not showing.

I have not touched the banner under affiliates.

should i.

ashok dhar

[soibaal]

dear sir

can some one explain to me this piece of code taken from templates/fallback/main_page.tpl.php.

<?php
if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) {
?>
<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php echo tep_display_banner('static', $banner); ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
}
?>


regards

ashok dhar

[jpf]

if selected banner exist then output the following code:


<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center"> php will display the selected banner here </td>
</tr>
</table>

[soibaal]

Dear friends

where may i find the reference to tep_banner_exists() function.
and what are its parameters 'dynamic' and '468X50'.

kindly elaborate and help me, a newbie.

thanks

ashok dhar

[jpf]

tep_banner_exists -is a php based function - if you do a search for it in the includes/functions directory you would find it is in banners.php

PHP Code:

// Check to see if a banner exists
  function tep_banner_exists($action, $identifier) {
    if ($action == 'dynamic') {
      return tep_random_select("select banners_id, banners_title, banners_image, banners_html_text from " . TABLE_BANNERS . " where status = '1' and banners_group = '" . $identifier . "'");
    } elseif ($action == 'static') {
      $banner_query = tep_db_query("select banners_id, banners_title, banners_image, banners_html_text from " . TABLE_BANNERS . " where status = '1' and banners_id = '" . (int)$identifier . "'");
      return tep_db_fetch_array($banner_query);
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  } 


Which means - it returns one of three option - two of which use and pass yet other functions.

Think you need a primer on programing (php, Java, C++, C# or any object oriented language are all a good basis to use) if you want to dive more into it.

Make sure your banner is put into the proper catalog\images\banners directory.

[soibaal]

Dear friend

How to display the banner at the top of the page.

kindly help
ashok dhar

[soibaal]

not done yet

[soibaal]

done done thanks thanks thanks