multi lingual banners

[Ant]

Hi,
Is this possible to set up banners that will only display in a certain language. Fro instance I have my site in Anglish and French, I want to display the banner in French for french and in english for other nationalities.

Can we do it?

How can I have several banners running in parallele.

Cordialement,
/rs, A

[Ajeh]

You could build multiple banner groups and then where each banner group appears have it utilize a different group based on language ...

Right now, it pulls based only on the banner group name ...

With a bit of thought you could have the banner sidebox that uses:
SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7

Actually utilize an more customized method such as:

    $banner_box_group= SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7 . $_SESSION['languages_id']; 

This would alter the name of the banner group based on the language so if you had a group called:
fred1 for english
fred2 for french
etc. etc.

depending on how your languages are setup, you could build language oriented banners ...

[27gerd27]

Hi,
i made your changes in the php-file, but what i have to do with fred1, fred2?
Could you be so kind and give me any hint?

Thank you very match

Gerd

[Ajeh]

If you were to enter in the Configuration ... Layout Settings ... the word:
fred

for the setting on:

Banner Display Groups - Side Box banner_box
The Banner Display Groups can be from 1 Banner Group or Multiple Banner Groups

For Multiple Banner Groups enter the Banner Group Name separated by a colon :

Example: Wide-Banners:SideBox-Banners
Default Group is SideBox-Banners

What Banner Group(s) do you want to use in the Side Box - banner_box?
Leave blank for none

This should produce fred1 fred2 fred3 etc. for the languages ...

[27gerd27]

Hi Ajeh,

i wrote this:

$banner_box_group= SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7 . $_SESSION['languages_id'];

to the /httpdocs/includes/modules/sideboxes/banner_box.php

I leave this in the Layout Settings unchanged:
Banner Display Groups - Side Box banner_box SideBox-Banners

(I understood this will produce fred1, fred2 etc.)

What a name for the banner group now i have to use in the Banner Manager ?

just fred1 or fred2 or
SideBox-Banners-fred1 etc.

After i changed the php-file the the banner disapeares

I am sure it is easy, but...

Could you one nore try to help http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/images/smilies/mellow.gif


many thanks

Gerd

[27gerd27]

Hi Ajeh,

could you be so kind and give me a bit more information?

Thank you very much...

Gerd

[poopette]

You could build multiple banner groups and then where each banner group appears have it utilize a different group based on language ...

Right now, it pulls based only on the banner group name ....

Nice, thx

With a bit of thought you could have the banner sidebox that uses:
SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7
Actually utilize an more customized method such as:

    $banner_box_group= SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7 . $_SESSION['languages_id']; 

About the explanation above, how can I use it also for the wide banner at the top of the page (not for the sidebox) ?

Thanks in advance for your answer.
Sincerly

[poopette]

I've found it.

Assume you want the 'multilingual process' for the wide banner, find in the header file the follow condition :

if (SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2 != '' && $banner = zen_banner_exists('dynamic', SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2)) 

and transform it into :

if (SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2 != '' && $banner = zen_banner_exists('dynamic', SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2 . $_SESSION['languages_id'])) 

... it works for me...

Thank you a lot with these explanations guys, you save me a lot of mone... oups time !!!

[littlehawk]

Could anyone explain more, what is the next step after this parse is changed?

[andreahd]

hello, I change the file / public_html / zencart / includes / templates / classic / templates / tpl_header.php with
" if (SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2! =''& & $ banner = zen_banner_exists ( 'dynamic', SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2. $ _SESSION [ 'languages_id']) )"

but I really do not know how to put that banner in two languages English and español.
much appreciate the help..... thanks !!