can I change footer banner without banner manager

[laurentb]

Hi

This is my second post I think, so be gentle.

I usually like the "do it myself" through FTP for better control and it helps me to learn as well.

 

While I had no problem finding where the footer banner is located in the folders, I find a bit more tricky discovering where and which file(s) need to be edited to change the banner at the bottom of the page.

 

I was wondering if it was possible?

Many thanks

[bill110]

This is the code that calles for the banner in catalog/includes/footer.php

<?php
 if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) {
?>
<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
<td align="center"><?php echo tep_display_banner('static', $banner); ?></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<?php
 }
?>

On way to do it yourself would be to create a file called:

catalog/includes/banner.php with the html tables etc for the banner you want.

example

<?php
/*
 $Id: banner.php,v 1.0 2007/03/10 22:30:54 Bill110 $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2007 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
?><table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
 <tr>
<td align="center"> Your stuff here</td>
 </tr></table>

Then replace the code snippet from above in footer.php with

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'banner.php'); ?>

[laurentb]

Thank you for your help bill.

I did identify the initial file but just couldn't worked out where the $banner was coming from.

 

Looking at all the troubles people were having in other threads using banners manager, I though relying on myself was a far more secure way of doing things, particularly as I am a newbie, I may just as well learn few tricks.

 

Thank you again

Let you know how it goes

 

Laurent