Can I delete "Auto activate and expire banners"?

[lba]

I get this error on the catalog:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: tep_activate_banners() in

/home/virtual/site214/fst/var/www/html/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 438

 

But it goes away when I delete the following from application_top.php:

// auto activate and expire banners

require(DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS . 'banner.php');

tep_activate_banners();

tep_expire_banners();

 

Is it ok to remove that code? What did I disable?

 

I also get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: tep_banner_exists()

in/home/virtual/site214/fst/var/www/html/catalog/includes/footer.php on line 49

 

And it goes away when I delete the following from 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

}

?>

 

Again, is it ok to remove that code? What did I disable?

 

Thanks,

lba

[chenie]

For the first error, you might what to double check and see if you have the complete file for banner.php, which is under catalog/includes/functions. In that .php file, the two functions [tep_activate_banners() & tep_expire_banners()] are defined.

 

Since you take out the lines in application_top.php which deal with banner, which you means probably your index.php page won't load banners for you, that could probably cause the second error.