more banners at the same time

[glambrecht]

finally managed to make my banner function.

just corrected 468x60 to 135x60 (my new banners) in footer.php in catalog/includes.

would like to have 4 banners side by side (4 in a row) - is that possible?

thanks :'(

[Velveeta]

finally managed to make my banner function.

just corrected 468x60 to 135x60 (my new banners) in footer.php in catalog/includes.

would like to have 4 banners side by side (4 in a row) - is that possible?

thanks :'(

Sure, but you'll have to modify the code in footers.php that queries for the banners, and have it select 4 of it, and then loop through the results and lay them all out in neighboring <td> elements within the same <tr> row...

 

*Quick Edit*

 

I just looked through the footer code and saw that it grabs 1 banner due to its function calls, which route through tep_random_select, which only returns 1 random result... You'll probably want to forego the call to that, and rewrite the query yourself to return a limit 4 on those results, ordered by rand(), so it randomly selects them, and doesn't duplicate them... Then push all of the results into an array, and return the array to $banner in footer.php... Then loop through $banner with a foreach, and lay them all out in neighboring <td> elements as suggested above...

 

Richard.

[albalo]

Sure, but you'll have to modify the code in footers.php that queries for the banners, and have it select 4 of it, and then loop through the results and lay them all out in neighboring <td> elements within the same <tr> row...

 

*Quick Edit*

 

I just looked through the footer code and saw that it grabs 1 banner due to its function calls, which route through tep_random_select, which only returns 1 random result... You'll probably want to forego the call to that, and rewrite the query yourself to return a limit 4 on those results, ordered by rand(), so it randomly selects them, and doesn't duplicate them... Then push all of the results into an array, and return the array to $banner in footer.php... Then loop through $banner with a foreach, and lay them all out in neighboring <td> elements as suggested above...

 

Richard.

 

Hi,

 

that is a great idea since i have the same problem.

 

do you know what you can replace with "tep_random_select" so it doesnt pick randomly. Or have you already done what you wrote above, because im killing myself to find out how to do that.

 

thank you