Advertising

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Any idea why banners are not showing up when I activate them?

I have it switched on in preferences.

jakec · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:12 am

What theme are you using?

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

NukeNews and the code is appears to be correct in themes.php

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Not all themes support banners. This one does, but does not appear to be updated to the advertising module from the old banners module. Based on the fisubice theme (not sure if you tried viewing ads / banners in that theme), in themes/NukeNews/theme.php find:

Code:

global $user, $banners, $sitename, $slogan, $cookie, $prefix, $db, $anonymous;

Change to:

Code:

global $user, $banners, $showbanners, $sitename, $slogan, $cookie, $prefix, $db, $anonymous;

Find:

Code:

if ($banners) {
echo ads(0);
}

Change to:

Code:

if ($banners) {
echo $showbanners;
}

Let us know if that works, and we can update the theme for the next release of RN.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Ok. I'll make the changes sometime today and get back to you.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Nope. That didn't work.

However, it does work on Sand_Journey, but, only after I log out.

evaders99 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:02 pm

If RavenNuke uses the Advertising module, then ads(0) should work.
Did something get changed to use the this $showbanners variable instead?

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

The only thing that changed was that Jaded tweaked it in regards to the theme.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

I don't know what's going on.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

My recommendations were based on what I saw in fisubice. Do other themes work?

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

No.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

So it's probably not the theme. Did you upgrade?

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Also, where is the active ad / banner set to display? Top, left block, etc.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:04 pm

In case it has been changed from the default settings, can you give us the banner position number as well.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

kguske wrote:

So it's probably not the theme. Did you upgrade?

No. RavenNuke has been running without a problem.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

kguske wrote:

Also, where is the active ad / banner set to display? Top, left block, etc.

Top

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Guardian2003 wrote:

In case it has been changed from the default settings, can you give us the banner position number as well.

The banner position is set to the top on my client's site.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Why not create a left advertising block - visible only to admins - and change the banner to appear in the left block position? That might help localize the issue.

Also, can you verify the contents of the nuke_banner table?

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

kguske wrote:

Why not create a left advertising block - visible only to admins - and change the banner to appear in the left block position? That might help localize the issue.

Also, can you verify the contents of the nuke_banner table?

Did that. Nothing is showing up.

What I find odd is that it only works on Sand_Journey after I log out.

Anyone is more than welcome to log into my client's Cpanel and poke around.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Here is the contents of my nuke_banner table:

SELECT *
FROM `nuke_banner`
LIMIT 0 , 30

Guardian2003 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:05 pm

I don't think 'top' will work as thats probably position ads(1), try it in 'header' which if I remember correctly is position ads(0) - I'm not certain because I'm using a customised Ad module.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Guardian2003 wrote:

I don't think 'top' will work as thats probably position ads(1), try it in 'header' which if I remember correctly is position ads(0) - I'm not certain because I'm using a customised Ad module.

Not sure what you are talking about. According to what I am seeing 0 is Top

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

What do you mean by try it in 'header'? Are you referring to the header.php?

Guardian2003 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:01 am

If you go into your advertising module administration area and click the text link 'Ads Positions'
You should see at least two ad poitions arleady there.
In the left most column it tells you the position of the banner;
'top' - normally a 760px wide banner which appears above the site header
'header' - normally a 468px wide banner which appears inside the header next to the site logo
'block' - normally a 125px image which appears in a side block.
These are just examples and in the virigin RN install you should have
Page Top
Left Block

If you look at the row that starts Page Top you can see it is assigned Position Number 0
If you look at Left Block you can see it is assigned Position Number 1

These position numbers are what is used to call the banner. So for the page top, you would use ads(0) and for the left block you would use ads(1)

As you have confirmed that 'Top' is '0' then that should work provided you also have a banner set up for it.

What I cannot figure out is why it works in one theme when you log out. The only reason I know of that would cause that to happen is if you have set yourself a 'subscriber' in which case the ads will not show when you are logged in.

If you could give us a link to your site this might help us.

steve_lemaster · Worker Joined: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 178

Ok. For some reason I was subscribed. When I unsubscribed they showed up, except for one theme that Jaded created and the NukeNews she tweaked for me.