Using javascript and a separate css for the header.

[DrByte]

1. Probably a typo of some sort. Or an error on my part. mismatched quotation marks and apostrophes?
Reference: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=82

2. You can't just dump javascript code into a PHP file and have it magically work as PHP. You'll have to rewrite your logic into PHP format.




Edit: yup, missing apostrophe at the end of my suggested change.

[Tantirx]

1. Probably a typo of some sort. Or an error on my part. mismatched quotation marks and apostrophes?
Reference: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=82

2. You can't just dump javascript code into a PHP file and have it magically work as PHP. You'll have to rewrite your logic into PHP format.




Edit: yup, missing apostrophe at the end of my suggested change.

Rewriting the logic is completely alien to me

Like I mentioned before my thing is HTML, XHTML, CSS ...javascript and php are like Chinese to me. I can implement scripts (and I have done so hundreds of times with pre-made scripts). But trying to implement them into a complex language like php is completely foreign.

[kobra]

Like I mentioned before my thing is HTML, XHTML, CSS ...javascript and php are like Chinese to me. I can implement scripts (and I have done so hundreds of times with pre-made scripts). But trying to implement them into a complex language like php is completely foreign.

Have you has success with this in just a html page??

Edited:
I believe that your demo page might have been this??

[Tantirx]

Have you has success with this in just a html page??

Edited:
I believe that your demo page might have been this??

Yes the demo page shows how it should work. The top part (logo banner with the fall leaves) is the script I am workin on now. The part below is the ad banner (this will eventually be at the very top of the main content column) and uses jquery and 3 js files.

As you can see from my mockup (demo) page...the design is sound...it's just a matter of implementation into a language I have almost no clue about; namely php.

[kobra]

Looking at your 2 pages I did not see alignment in the js being used??
The ZenCart is using jscript_seasons.js and seasons is not seen on your mockup page??

If this is square and correct try entering in a COPY for your template in the tpl_header.php file and change from

<!--bof-branding display-->
<div id="logoWrapper">
    <div id="logo"><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . zen_image($template->get_template_dir(HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>

And replace with this and see what results

<!--bof-branding display-->
<div id="logoWrapper">
    <div id="logo"><a href="http://www.oceanabyssaquatics.ca/store/"><img src="./logo.jpg" onload="setImgByDate(this,holiday)"></div>

If this works should later add the html ALT entry

[Tantirx]

Looking at your 2 pages I did not see alignment in the js being used??
The ZenCart is using jscript_seasons.js and seasons is not seen on your mockup page??

If this is square and correct try entering in a COPY for your template in the tpl_header.php file tpl_header.php and change from

<!--bof-branding display-->
<div id="logoWrapper">
    <div id="logo"><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . zen_image($template->get_template_dir(HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>

And replace with this and see what results

<!--bof-branding display-->
<div id="logoWrapper">
    <div id="logo"><a href="http://www.oceanabyssaquatics.ca/store/"><img src="./logo.jpg" onload="setImgByDate(this,holiday)"></div>

If this works should later add the html ALT entry

Yes the js file names are different on the mockup page. I renamed them based on the tutorials for adding js to ZC . The js on the mockup page was called holiday.js the code is identical.

[Tantirx]

OK ...we are getting somewhere The default logo is coming up. But not the date based logo.

[DrByte]

Rewriting the logic is completely alien to me

Like I mentioned before my thing is HTML, XHTML, CSS ...javascript and php are like Chinese to me. I can implement scripts (and I have done so hundreds of times with pre-made scripts). But trying to implement them into a complex language like php is completely foreign.

Fine.
Use the corrected code I posted for approach #1, and live with the consequences of using javascript to accomplish what you're after.