BANNER

[witcherybr2004]

i deleted the main banner from my shop, the oscommerce one that is located underneath the text ''Copyright ? 2006 Orphaned Disciples Shop Powered by osCommerce'' now i am trying to re-add but it is not working and the banner keep itself in the red status even if the date Scheduled is the actual one, i added the banner title, the banner url, i uploaded the image file but it is not working, the banner is not being showed at the main page what do i do?

 

i already found a way to make the banner status be changed by clickin in the green little wheel but it still is not displaying at the main page, then what can i do please help?

[mtechama]

i deleted the main banner from my shop, the oscommerce one that is located underneath the text ''Copyright ? 2006 Orphaned Disciples Shop Powered by osCommerce'' now i am trying to re-add but it is not working and the banner keep itself in the red status even if the date Scheduled is the actual one, i added the banner title, the banner url, i uploaded the image file but it is not working, the banner is not being showed at the main page what do i do?

 

i already found a way to make the banner status be changed by clickin in the green little wheel but it still is not displaying at the main page, then what can i do please help?

 

 

did you set the banner group to 468x50 that what it needs to be to make the banner to work

[witcherybr2004]

it was previously working even with 468x60 and 468x50, and after i deleted it is not being inserted anymore in any size!!! i changed this in images configuration and it is still nto appearing!!

and by thew way there is not option to set up in the baner manager the banner width and height

[witcherybr2004]

SOMEONE CAN HELP ME?

[witcherybr2004]

SOMEONE CAN HELP ME?

[mtechama]

it was previously working even with 468x60 and 468x50, and after i deleted it is not being inserted anymore in any size!!! i changed this in images configuration and it is still nto appearing!!

and by thew way there is not option to set up in the baner manager the banner width and height

 

 

the reason you can see your banner is you have deleted it out of the banner manager.

[sdk]

how do you set the group size:S?

 

edit: nevermind, oscommerce should really change this name in banner size isntead of group (!).

[mtechama]

how do you set the group size:S?

 

Go to Admin>Tools>Banner Manager>

 

there is a spot called Banner Group in the space enter 468x50 that should do it

[witcherybr2004]

there is not a spot called Banner Group in this!!!

Banner Group

[witcherybr2004]

i am sure it is not about the size of the banner, when i installed before the shop i just renamed the banner for the name was on the server and resized it to 468x60 and that was working without any problem, the problem is, i add and it is not being displayed at the main page, it is nothing to do with size of the banner

[PD_Steve]

there is not a spot called Banner Group in this!!!

 

There is when you click the button "New Banner". Experiment a little and you learn so much more :)

 

The code you readded to your OsCommerce after deleting it... was it like this:-

 

<?php

if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) {

?>

<br>

<table align="center" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

</table>

<?php

 

Now, lets take a look at the line saying - if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) {

 

In there you can see the '468x50'. This is the group, or "Banner Group" which is hardcoded in the code. If you set up a new "Banner Group" called 468x60 then it will not work unless you change this in the code also.

 

Your best option is to load all banners in to the "Banner Group" using 468x50 regardless of if your banner size is 500x100, or 468x60, etc.

 

The 468x50 shown in the "Banner Group" is the category and is the one hardcoded into your default banner code.

 

I believe that OsCommerce did it this way so that if you want two or three banners showing, each spot can show a different selection of banner by simply changing the if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) { to whatever "Banner Group" you put your other selections in.

 

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