<front> not working on channel settings

"node" (without quotation marks) works for front page.

Using <front> works fine for me, though it was not documented as being supported. I've fixed the documentation. If you're still having a problem, please re-open this issue and follow the directions in documentation/DEBUG.txt.

The tag doesn't work with Drupal 6.13 and Ad 6.x-2.1.

Specifying node/xxx (the node set as front) works.

Thanks for your work on this excellent module.

> If you're still having a problem, please re-open this issue and follow
> the directions in documentation/DEBUG.txt.

If you don't follow the directions in documentation/DEBUG.txt, I'm unable to help you.

No further feedback, closing issue.

Same here.

Version 6.x-2.2

I'm using the node id(node/xxx) but if I change the front page I need to change all the channels =/

The Channel module uses adserve_variable() when it should be using variable_get(). Patch attached.

@John Franklin: Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately, it seems to be in a different format than others I have applied.

When I do:

sudo patch -p0 < /path/ad-frontpage.patch

I get:

can't find file to patch at input line 5
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff --git a/channel/ad_channel.inc b/channel/ad_channel.inc
|index df96cde..09c7f2b 100644
|--- a/channel/ad_channel.inc
|+++ b/channel/ad_channel.inc
--------------------------
File to patch:

And it waits for input. This occurs from the ad directory or the ad/channel directory

Can you please advise?

The -p option says how many levels of path name to ignore. You need to strip of at least the git a/b part of the path, so you need at least a -p1. Do the following:

cd sites/all/modules/ad
patch -p1 < /path/to/ad-frontpage.patch

Thank you for the followup. I was able to successfully apply the patch.

The Channel behavior is still not right; but honestly I did not test the <front> functionality which your patch is supposed to address. I was more hopeful that it might fix the channel url wildcards somehow and it did not appear to.

I will have to test more (and specifically the <front> functionality) and report back.

Committed to 6.x branch as 4635ffa. Port to 7.x branch needed.

This code doesn't exist yet in the 7.x branch.

First, I want to thank John and other contributors for their time and dedication to this.

I am just noting that this code still did not work for me and I communicated the issues/Debug to John.

When I try to use Channels, whether <front> or otherwise, it only shows 1 ad everywhere (similar to setting an ad as "Premiere"). My workaround for channels has been to use different Ad Groups containing the ads I want for a particular website/location. (I have hundreds of ads I can test with).

BTW, I use mostly remote ads with one site serving the ads to numerous others. I don't really using "local" ads that much (i.e., ads in within the same site where they reside).

Cheers

@John, I sent you more debug output after conducting a simple experiment with 2 channels (one that should show only on front and one that shouldn't show on front) where an ad that should only show on <front> showed on a non-<front> page.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, I got it.

Thanks John. I really want to thank you for all the work you have done on this module in such a short time as well.

It is highly appreciated.