Not sure where to ask > banner after first post

[Pingu]

I know I've seen this before and I've spent days looking for this thread, but...

What's going on? Umm, nothing yet, hence this post...

I've got phpAdsNew 2b1 installed, and I want to display a banner after the first post of each thread (maybe after each 5 posts, dunno). I've got to do stuff with showthread.php, that I know, and it's all I know...

How on earth would I do a thing like this? I wouldn't mind at all if one of you answered this in great detail since I barely know what I'm doing

[shri]

Look for (I think this is where its at)

$counter=0;
while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts) and $counter++<$perpage) {

  if ($postdone[$post[postid]]) {
    $counter--;
    continue;
  } else {
    $postdone[$post[postid]]=1;
  }

  if ($counter%2==0) {
    $post[backcolor]="{firstaltcolor}";
  } else {
    $post[backcolor]="{secondaltcolor}";
  } 

This is the begining of the loop where the post is setup.

Look for

  eval("\$postbits .= \"".gettemplate("postbit")."\";"); 

Do something like right below that.

if ($counter = whatevervalue)
  {
   $postbits .=  "<br>" . $ad_banner;
   } 

This will append the html from ad_banner to the postbit template.

Use view_raw to get $ad_banner

[Pingu]

Thank you very much. This was what I was looking for
I'll start playing with this as soon as I have time

shri rulez!

[shri]

Lemme know how it goes. Would be interesting to see what sort of click through rates banners in non standard locations get.

[George L]

i am doing something similar but instead with simplate text advertisements on the top of forums, and showthread and private message areas

haven't tried it with real advertisements yet though

[Pingu]

Well, out of experience I can tell you that a banner on the top of a forum does not do well. I guess it's because visitors are focussed on the discussions and don't have eyes for anything else, at least untill they're finished reading and discussing. So during that they are set to "text mode" and ignore graphics. I know I see nothing but text when discussing

The idea for this set up is to make banners appear after for example the first post. No graphics though, but text or HTML banners of something like that, (if we have a choice that is...) Maybe it'll make a difference. If it doesn't then we'll at least have a noticable place for announcements

Mind you, the very first idea was to place little text ads in the posts themselves, in a small table at the bottom where signatures are now. But with such a thing it's really easy to over-do things, so that will need to be looked at closely in the future...

I'm going to ruin my forum now and let you know soon

[Pingu]

Can't get it to work

All it shows now is "Array" where a banner should be, in a gap between the first and the second post. I'm halfway there then...

What I've done, is add this code to showthread.php:

  if ($counter==1) {
      require("/blah/blah/phpadsnew.inc.php"); 
   $postbits .=  "<table width=\"100%\"><tr><td align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"4\">".view_raw("")."</tr></td></table>";
  }

What am I doing wrong???

[Wayne Luke]

We use:

require("/path/to/da/script/phpadsnew.inc.php"); 
$adbanner = get_view(""); 

And put $adbanner were ever we want it.

[Pingu]

Hmm, don't think "get_view" is supported anymore. I can find nothing like that...

And I can't see how I can make a view appear after the first post with "$adbanner = get_view("");". Can you explain please?

When I replace "view_raw" with "view" then a banner shows up, at completely the wrong spot but it shows...
When I use "view_raw" all it shows is "Array", at the right spot. Here's an example of what I mean:

http://www.paysforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=29

I really want this icky bit solved

[Fred]

Why cloud your forum up with sponsors. Thats hella annoying.

[shri]

i use this ..

include("/home/gandu/www/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php");
$adbanner = view_raw("top_banner");
$mybanner = $adbanner[html]; 

[Pingu]

Me happy. It works thanks to the tips suggested here...

Ok, here's the final code:

  if ($counter==1) {
	include("/blah/blah/phpAdsNew/phpadsnew.inc.php");
	$adbanner = view_raw("");
	$mybanner = $adbanner[html];

        $postbits .=  "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"4\"><tr><td align=\"center\">" . $mybanner;
	$postbits = $postbits ."</tr></td></table>";
  }

And Fred, I would prefer not to show banners at all, but this decision is based on the content (or lack of it) of my wallet

[Byron]

include("/home/gandu/www/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php");
$adbanner = view_raw("top_banner");
$mybanner = $adbanner[html];

I tried the above method by Shri. It works but i get the following warning messages when i tried to logout.


Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /my/server/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php:47) in /my/server/ads/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1173

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /my/server/path/ads/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php:47) in /my/server/path/ads/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1173

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /my/server/path/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php:47) in /my/server/path/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1173

[George L]

you're phpadsnew.inc.php has white space or extra line breaks in the file - check line 47 of phpadsnew.inc.php to see

[Byron]

thanks eva2000,

no more error msg after i removed the blank spaces.
May i know why is the blank space causing the errors?

Are you using the same method to call your banners as well?