adding a "normal" flash banner

Sergeant Joined: Feb 04, 2004 Posts: 100

anyone know how to add flash / swf banners in the "normal" spot here? I use this theme fisubsilversh and a few others like this theme on phpnuke 7.7.

Is there a simple fix? I use ibdeeming advertising modules and the blocks work fine for flash. It would be nice to be able to upload a swf to my banner folder, select normal and it runs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Captain Joined: Dec 19, 2004 Posts: 663 Location: Canada

If your flash ad works fine for the Ads block it should work with your header banner too. I would suggest you to use some mod/hack like the one you are using right now.

Try this one if the current one does not work for you:

Flash Banners Mod v2.0

There are many mods/hacks out ther just search, hope you will find somthing. Smile

Sergeant Joined: Feb 04, 2004 Posts: 100

hey thanks asta... I did finially find the fix. I need to replace some lines in my theme.php

For the ibdeeming mod here it is.

Code:

How do I fix a Theme that doesn't show the FLASH banners?

Most themes follow the standard required by PHPNuke to incllude the banners.php file where you want to see your banner displayed. There are a few out there that actually have the logic imbedded. As long as you aren't skiddish about making edit changes to your php files - than proceed on!

As stated, you will typically find within your themeheader function in the theme.php file something like

if ($banners) {
include("banners.php");
echo "<br>";
}

If this is your case, you chouldn't have to do anything else. More than likely, you have a lot more code between the "if" and the end curly brace!

Here's where it may get tricky, but you want to find code that looks something like

$showbanners = "<a href=\"banners.php?op=click&bid=$bid\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"$imageurl\" border=\"0\" alt='$alttext' title='$alttext'></a>;

Easy enough, right?

You will now replace that code with

// is this a FLASH file???
$extension = substr(strrchr($imageurl, "."), 1);
if ( eregi( "swf", $extension ) == true )
{
// echo out the FLASH code for flash images
$showbanners = "<center>"
."<OBJECT classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" WIDTH=\"480\" HEIGHT=\"75\" id=\"logo\" ALIGN=\"\">\n"
."<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=\"$imageurl\">\n"
."<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>\n"
."<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>\n"
."<EMBED src=\"$imageurl\" quality=high bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH=\"480\" HEIGHT=\"75\" NAME=\"logo\" ALIGN=\"\" TYPE=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" PLUGINSPAGE=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\"></EMBED>\n"
."</OBJECT><br><a href=\"banners.php?op=click&bid=$bid\" target=\"_blank\">$alttext</a></center>\n";
}
else
{
$showbanners = "<a href=\"banners.php?op=click&bid=$bid\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"$imageurl\" border=\"0\" alt='$alttext' title='$alttext'></a>";
}