Guest Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 I can't seem to figure out how to get banners to show up... I've added banners in the banner manager, but they don't appear anywhere. I don't get any errors either. I've checked and rechecked time and again for a setting I might be missing but I just can't find anything. I have someone I'm trying to do an exchange with but I can't figure out how to make their banner appear -- HELP! :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goanna Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 You have to make a new group for your banners called Box-Ad and install your banners to that group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goanna Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Oh, wait, thats only if you installed the banner in a box contrib. I dont know if thats what you meant. If you are installing regular banners, they should go into group 468x50 and if you customized your site at all you must make sure that you didnt accidentally delete the php code in footer.php that calls for the banner to be displayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 All I see group-wise is "Member Groups" which to me doesn't make sense when talking about banners.... am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 I thought something might be missing in the footer.php file... any way you can post that part of the code so I can check? Or could you tell me where I could find that code? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Is this it? Is something missing from it? Cause if not, I can't understand why it isn't showing up. :? <?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 ? } ?> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goanna Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Yeah, that is it. Try this, go into your admin, click on Tools, Banner manager, New Banner. Then fill all that out, and apply it to a new group, called 468x50 and submit it. That should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Nope, didn't work :( That's why I'm so confused. It *should* just work, but it isn't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_jbdotcom Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 same here, im using the STS template system though i tried to call $banner w/ the sts on the template page, NOTHING. Then I called $footer and I got everything the footer shows except the BANNER :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 I'm using a standard pixame template right now (hopefully will be getting a prof. designed one soon). You can see for yourself that my footer is showing, but no banner -- http://store.babiesandbellies.com . At one point, the default osC banner was there, but then it was gone and neither me nor my husband remember removing it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMalleys Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 My banners are missing too - if I set up a banner with just text (no image) it will show the text but will not link to a URL, if I set up a banner with an image - absolutely nothing (not even a red X !!) David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMalleys Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Doohh! Silly Me :angry: The answer was here (thanks Bob): http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...=0entry275516 Standard banners sizes (468 x 60) are blocked by computers using anti pop-up or anti-advertising software, My banners were showing because initially they were small gifs then I made some more professional looking (and standard size) banners and suddenly they wouldn't show (it was just the computer which I was using to view them was blocking them!!) I have now made new banners that are 450x58 and they show up fine on my PC with anti-pop-up enabled (I use Norton Internet Security) hth :D David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Ah hah!!! I do run a pop up blocker so maybe that was it! I'll try it out, thanks a ton!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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