Banners Display and Functionality

[pricediscrimination]

Zencart can't do that natively, as you've found, and I'm not programmer enough to offer an answer, but it would require custom coding.

Another question is whether advertising other sites makes sense on an ecommerce store. Blog, yes, I think. Zencart store, no. You're offering your potential customers an easy way to leave your site to buy elsewhere.

Thanks for the help but I never said I was advertising other sites. And while it's a sincere point, the lack of flexibility in the banner manager is still very disappointing.

It does not seem like something that is impossible since most blog type sites have this function. The admin banner manager is amazing and useful, however the front-end display of the banners is limited and not as friendly.

[Ajeh]

You could customize the tpl_banner_box_all.php with a minor code change using your templates and overrides:

  $sql = "select banners_id from " . TABLE_BANNERS . " where status = 1 " . $new_banner_search . $my_banner_filter . " order by Rand()";

[pricediscrimination]

You could customize the tpl_banner_box_all.php with a minor code change using your templates and overrides:

  $sql = "select banners_id from " . TABLE_BANNERS . " where status = 1 " . $new_banner_search . $my_banner_filter . " order by Rand()";

That sounds excellent! But if banner_box_all is already being used in the sidebar, what should be changed to apply the code to a banner group on the main page or anywhere else in the template?

[Ajeh]

You lost me ...

To use the Banners with multiple banners at the same time, you use the banner_box_all.php and tpl_banner_box_all.php to control it ...

If you want more that work in this manner, then you would need to clone these to make new sets that work like the Banners All sidebox ...

All of the other Banner display as a single banner ...

[pricediscrimination]

You lost me ...

To use the Banners with multiple banners at the same time, you use the banner_box_all.php and tpl_banner_box_all.php to control it ...

If you want more that work in this manner, then you would need to clone these to make new sets that work like the Banners All sidebox ...

All of the other Banner display as a single banner ...

I guess I was confused because I only knew of the BannersAll sidebox. So based on your advice, I will leave the BannersAll sidebox alone, clone the two files and place the new setup where I need it in another location of the template.

But The only thing I'm still confused about is that when I clone those two files, will a new Banner Display Group option be available in the Admin to assign something like BannersAll2?


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