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I need help with my banners, please. I've put all 3 of them all into the BannersAll group, I've set the order for all of them. The banner group is positioned in Footer 3. They are supposed to show all at the same time, because they are static. But instead the banners behave as dynamic ones, showing only one banner. They just rotate as I keep refreshing my page. How do I solve this problem? I need them all at the same time. I am using zen-cart 1.3.8a.
You can't show 3 banners at the same time in a single position (except in the Banners All SideBox)
To show 3 banners at the same time you will have to add 1 to each of the 3 footer banner positions. Note: they will not be stacked tightly together.
Thank you for your reply. I actually need to show 10 banners at the same time. You can see the example here: www.api.kh.ua (at the bottom) - this is my store, which I want to switch to zen-cart. Is something like that possible in zen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Is it possible to show several banners at the same time, like here: www.api.kh.ua? I need it for my new shop. Thank you very much for any help I can get!
This is what the manual says:
"Banners belonging to the BannersAll group are displayed statically. All banners in this group will be displayed at the same time and will not change regardless of any page refreshes".
For some reason it doesn't work that way. I need around 10 banners along the bottom of my main page. Does anybody know how to implement this?
That statement applies only if the banner group is applied to the "Banner Display Group - Side Box banner_box_all" option.
To achieve static banners for your custom footer, you will need to implement some custom code.
You can adapt the code from:
- includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_banner_box_all.php
and tweak the following page to suit your needs:
- includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php
Remember to use the Template Overrides System for this.
Just "hardcode" them in your tpl_footer
Thank you very much! I will try to do it, although I don't know php or html code very well. I'll see what I can do.Quote:
Originally Posted by canopy
Thanks alot for the advice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Well, I've tried, but nothing worked. What exactly do I need to adapt from the tpl_banner_box_all.php, and how can I adapt it? I am sorry, but I really don't have a clue about this.Quote:
Originally Posted by canopy
I've found another way to my problem. I just put all of my banner's codes into one banner, called it "All Banners" and it did it. You can see it here: www.api.kh.ua/zen I can't see the statistics of each of the banner from the Admin section, though. My way is probably not the right way of solving the problem, but I can't think of anything else. The only other way would be to use the sidebox_banners_all.
It seems like you have entered the raw code for the banners into the HTML Text field of the Banner Manager screen. As stated above the text box in the screen, clicks will not be recorded for banners created that way. That is why you do not see the statistics.
You will need to tweak the custom code I posted earlier if you want to have the banners displayed and also have the statistics recorded. Btw, tpl_main_page.php which I posted earlier is related to Footer Position 3 while tpl_footer.php is related to Footer Position 2. I'm sorry to have missed that one out.
Alternatively, as you mentioned, you can create individual image banners (not HTML banners) under a banner group and then assign that banner group to sidebox_banners_all. However, you will not be able to hotlink to the images like what you are currently doing now but you will get to see the statistics this way without any custom coding.
canopy, thank you for your advices. Unfortunately, I don't know the code very well, I don't think I really understand what I need to do. I'll have to stick with what I came up with, I guess. Unless, of course, somebody will actually adapt the code for me :-)
I also really wanted to be able to display all of the banners from a group in a single location, and have ended up with quite a useful solution if anyone's interested. This could help with all sorts of customisations:
1. Apply DrByte's excellent contribution that allows you to display any centrebox or sidebox in a PHP file outside of Zen Cart [http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=79]
2. Delete line 41 of single_sidebox.php as we're using this within ZC and it will cause a fatal error if you leave it in:
3. Insert the appropriate code in whatever template file you want it. In my case it was tpl_main_page.php and I inserted the following, just after the banner 3 code:PHP Code:require('includes/application_top.php');
Note that the final line is a bit different from DrByte's instructions as the server I'm working with doesn't allow direct URL calling.PHP Code:$zcSBmodule = 'banner_box_all.php'; // name of sidebox or centerbox to be displayed (see filenames in the /includes/modules/sideboxes folder) (if not set, uses "whats_new.php")
$zcSBlayout = 'right'; // 'left' or 'right' sidebox template style (if not specified, uses 'left')
require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/single_sidebox.php';
Hi, I'm reviving this post, since I got the same issue, but don't know how to solve it. The only advice here is to tweak the code in the tpl_footer with the help of tpl_banner_box_all. I just don't know how to do that. I'm trying and trying, but no luck.
Please, could anyone help me with being more specific with this instruction of hardcoding the bannerFive.
Thank you so much in advance.
Tanja