Display Banners in HTML Based Templates

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 13, 2005 Posts: 5

The topic may not make much since. I am still learning to edit templates. Some are based all on a theme.php file. Others create seperate .html files. On these themes, i find it hard to move the location for your banners to display. You can't just move the

Code:

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

into the area you want on the html page because it has to be placed in a php file. I haven't checked a lot of HTML templates but most i found were placed at the very top of the template (before the template starts).

To display it somewhere in the template, i use a borderless iframe.

1) go to "theme.php" and find

Code:

$public_msg = public_message();

2) Above that, insert this code:

Code:

$banners = "<iframe align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"banners.php\"></iframe>";

3) Change the "width" and "height" to the dimensions of the banners. It show seemlessly.

4) After that, insert this code into the html page where u want it to display, for example "header.html"::

Code:

$banners

Insert that anywhere on one of the html pages. For the example i have included, i put it in my "header.html" next to the logo:

Code:

<table CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ALIGN="center" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td BGCOLOR="#ffffff" WIDTH="50%"><a HREF="index.php"><img SRC="themes/NukeNews/images/corner-top-left.gif" WIDTH="17" HEIGHT="17" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BORDER="0" ALIGN="TOP"></a>
</td>

<td VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><img HEIGHT="17" ALT="" HSPACE="0" SRC="themes/NukeNews/images/corner-top-right.gif" WIDTH="17" ALIGN="right"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><p><a HREF="index.php"><img SRC="themes/NukeNews/images/logo.gif" ALIGN="TOP" ALT=""._WELCOMETO." $SITENAME" border="0" HSPACE="10"></a><br>
</p> </td>
<td ALIGN="right" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><div ALIGN="LEFT">$banners</div></td>
</tr>
</table>

The example of this is at www.quiksilver.name. Anyone think there is another way of doing this? I'm sure there is, but i figured i would help with what i could.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 13, 2005 Posts: 5

I just downloaded another HTML based template (DigitalDementia) and his seemed better (which i didnt know the url structure for this):

insert "$showbanners" where u want the banners to appear, and in theme.php set it = to:

Code:

I'm not sure where the $imageurl is set and if it will show all banners. Based on the vars in the banners.php? i would assume it would.