multi lingual banners

[jagge]

Same issue for me... How could the language know which banner to get?
Really need help with this, I followed this tutorial and read it 4-5 times, but dont get any wiser.
What are we missing?

[balihr]

OK, been working on this for a few hours until i realised how simple it is... I wanted my header's Wide-Banners to be multi-lingual.

So, for all those still looking for the answer, here we go:

1. Locate your tpl_header.php file and find this line:

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

and replace it with

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

2. Go to Configuration->Layout Settings and change Banner Display Groups - Header Position 2 to show Wide-Banners (write that in the field)

3. Go to Tools->Banner Manager. Edit your banner and manually assign it to banner group Wide-Banners1. Notice the number 1 - this number represents your language id. Therefore, if you have english (1), german (2) etc, Wide-Banners1 will show when english language is selected and Wide-Banners2 when german is selected. Note: language ids are related to your installed languages, not a general code - if you don't know what id you want to use, simply try different numbers 1,2,3,4,5...

And that's it! If you want to use it on a different position, change the GROUP_SET number accordingly.

Could it be any easier?

This also works with Flash banners (if you previously set up Flash to run). If you want a Flash banner, use the HTML banner version...

All thanks go to Ajeh!

[ilonka]

thank you for your modification, but it is not always working as it should.

When i refresh the page it sometimes loads the wrong banner. Do ou have this problem as well?

[ilonka]

after running some more tests, it seems like it is using the different language banners randomly and not by the languagenumber ID

[Athens Collectibles]

Well, I'm very new to Zen Cart but I did it in a different way and it seems to work fine.

My site is in English and Greek. I installed the Greek language pack and now have two header.php files:

/includes/languages/english/my_template/header.php
/includes/languages/greek/my_template/header.php

I created two banners, placed them in /includes/templates/my_template/images and named them logo_english.gif and logo_greek.gif.

In the /includes/languages/english/my_template/header.php file I changed the line

define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.gif'); to

define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo_english.gif');

and in the /includes/languages/greek/my_template/header.php file I changed the line

define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.gif'); to

define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo_greek.gif');

That was all. You can see it in action at http://athenscollectibles.info (the text on the right side of the logo changes with the language).

As I said at the beginning, I'm very new to Zen Cart and I'm still not confident. If one of the many experts reads this, I would appreciate an advice if this was correctly done or whether I should expect something nasty to happen.

[balihr]

What you did has nothing to do with banners. You just changed your logo image.

Under Admin, you can go to your Tools->Banner Manager to see what banners are about.

[Athens Collectibles]

Thank you Balihr, that was really my intention. Being new at Zen Cart, I thought that this was the discussion about. Where I come from (an ecommerce hosting site), we called the top logo "banner".

Now I see that banners in Zen Cart are something different. I have already used the Tools > Banner Manager to get rid of the advertising banners appearing at the bottom of the page when I installed Zen Cart. Obviously, I need to do a lot more reading!

Your understanding will be much appreciated.

[vadimzven]

I don't know what is wrong, but I can't receive banner for second language.
OK, been working on this for a few hours until i realised how simple it is... I wanted my header's Wide-Banners to be multi-lingual.

What I did:
1. Changed tpl_header.php file for my template
/public_html/includes/templates/my_template/common/tpl_header.php

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

was changed to

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

2. Go to Configuration->Layout Settings and changed Banner Display Groups - Header Position 2 to
"Wide-Banners:Wide-Banners1:Wide-Banners10" ( I have 2 language_id, which is 1 and 10).

3. Go to Tools->Banner Manager. Manually assigned name banner group Wide-Banners1 and Wide-Banners10


Nothing happening. Site still show only banner for language_id 1.

[balihr]

2. Go to Configuration->Layout Settings and changed Banner Display Groups - Header Position 2 to
"Wide-Banners:Wide-Banners1:Wide-Banners10" ( I have 2 language_id, which is 1 and 10).

No! Set this field to Wide-Banners - don't add any numbers or anything.

3. Go to Tools->Banner Manager. Manually assigned name banner group Wide-Banners1 and Wide-Banners10

Nothing happening. Site still show only banner for language_id 1.

How do you know your language_id is 1 and 10? How did you determine the ids? Maybe a silly question, but humor me...

[vadimzven]

I found language_id in MySQL database.