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October 09, 2007

Advertiser Plug-In

Hoping someone might help me in how to add a PHP 'include' in the Advertiser Plug-In, so I can rotate some random ads?

I'm not a PHP person, but I think the 'END' block or the three 'less-than' angle brackets (heredoc?) stops PHP being intepreted (code gets ignored)?

Wanted to use the 'Simple Ad Rotator' from PHPBuddy:
http://www.phpbuddy.com/article.php?id=4

Thanks

Keywords: Advertiser Plug-In

Posted by rpr @ Plugins

Comments

After END; you can add the code (banner_ads.txt must be in the same directory):

$fcontents = join ('', file ('banner_ads.txt'));
$s_con = split("~",$fcontents);

$banner_no = rand(0,(count($s_con)-1));
$run_result .= $s_con[$banner_no];

Rolando Espinoza La Fuente on Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 18:10 UTC # |
Thanks for your help Rolando.

Your suggestion put the Adverts at the very top of the page (above LogIn toolbar)? But that got me started and I seem to have got it working by getting rid of the 'END' block altogether. Hope that isn't going to cause problems with anything else?

Thanks again
RPR.

rpr on Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 19:28 UTC # |