Banner Mod not working

Posted by wizzie on January 19, 2005 at 8:19pm

Hi all
Just installed Drupal and its great! also have installed the banner mod and configured it, can see banners in the admin area but they are not showing on the pages, any ideas

many thanks

Comments

You may want to go and check

Posted by robclay on January 19, 2005 at 8:57pm

You may want to go and check the
administer -> users -> configure -> permissions and check "show banners" for everyone.

Done that

Posted by wizzie on January 20, 2005 at 9:04am

I've selected show to all but still does not work

Did you edit your theme?

Posted by grohk on January 20, 2005 at 11:00am

Did you edit your theme as described in the readme.txt section called "Displaying banners and text ads from your theme:"?

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How do I edit the theme?

Posted by wizzie on January 20, 2005 at 12:06pm

I have no knowledge of php, so how do I edit the theme?
Have found a patch in the downloaded banner mod, but how do I apply it?

Thanks

add a block for your ad

Posted by dstockmann on January 20, 2005 at 2:51pm

I didn't modify the template to get my banner mod working. just read the installation document on how to add a block. it works great for me.

Block vs. top of page

Posted by kbahey on January 20, 2005 at 3:20pm

A block will always work, whether you modifed the theme files or not, just like dstockman said.

However, in order to have banner ads at the top of the page, you need to modify the theme.

There is a contrib directory in the banner tar.gz file. In it you will find a diff file that you can use to patch the themes to display banners.

Apply that and it should work.

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Applying Patch

Posted by wizzie on January 21, 2005 at 1:09pm

Thanks, I've found the patch, but how do I apply it?

Many Thanks

If you are using Linux

Posted by kbahey on January 22, 2005 at 6:32pm

If you are using Linux, then you do:

patch -p0 < patch-file-name

I do not specific instructions on how to do it under Windows though.

However, the patch is simple enough for you to apply manually to your theme. All you need is the following in the theme file, and corresponding :

<div id="banner">{banner}</div>

If you are using 4.5.0 Drupal, AND you use either pushbutton or bluemarin, then you can get the patched themes from a a web page that I set up specifically for that.

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Re: the patch you posted on baheyeldin

Posted by The Webmaster Centre on May 11, 2005 at 3:22pm

Does this patch work with themes like Slash which rely on the PHPTemplateEngine?

If not, is there one anywhere that does?

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No

Posted by kbahey on May 11, 2005 at 3:48pm

This patch was for xtemplate based themes.

For phptemplate themes, you can do the following in your page.tpl.php:

<?php if (module_exist('banner')) : ?>
 <div id="banner"><?php print banner_display() ?></div>
<?php endif; ?>

You do not need to change the engine or any other file.
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just cant this to work - help required

Posted by jklondon on August 15, 2005 at 4:28pm

Can someone give me a hand with this – its driving me nuts – tried everything but cant see the banners. I am

- using blocks
- inserted the correct php code in the block (no errors)
- created a banner – image – its approved and enabled.
- No errors for seeing banner_db / banner_file

Help please – really want to get this working :(

Thanks

Sam