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alabamatoy 
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 Posted: 13 December 2010 at 1:21am |
I just added some code to the header.asp file to display a randomly selected 500X100 hyperlinked banner image from a list. See www.rocketcityrockcrawlers.com/forum and www.sfwda.org/forum for examples. Open the main forum page, and hit refresh a few times. I think I posted the code on here somewhere.... Edited to add: Here's the code I used: http://forums.webwiz.net/banner-advertising_topic26419_post136258.html?KW=#136258
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Posted: 13 December 2010 at 2:06am |
Thanks alabamatoy Looks like it would do the job.  I had a play with a javascript solution earlier this week as well, I think either js or a solution similar to yours is probably the best way to go given that the classic asp adrotator component is no longer supported, and using asp.net in conjunction with classic asp creates far too much overhead on the server judging by another post of billd's that I came across. (which is a shame as the asp.net banner rotator is a very nice solution)
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Posted: 14 December 2010 at 1:16pm |
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would that work with FLASH ads? AND allow the Flash to link?
Please see our forum:
http://theamcforum.com/forum
Check the banner ads (just 2 rotating at this point) and note that they are flash ads.......
Ordinary files such as PNG, GIF, BMP and JPG are simple, flash, well, that's different....
if we can do rotating with flash, and have the links work, etc. - I'd be willing to pay for something that worked and didn't suck all the resources! I love the setup we have now - someone can buy 30 days of advertising, I setup an account and an ad/banner, and set it for 30 days. After 30 days, their ad stops showing and the others keep on showing and I don't have to do a thing!!!
It even sends them an email on how many clicks there have been and how many "impressions".
But wow, it's sucked all the resources and memory, even adding memory, it still recycles according to Bruce.
Supposedly we can put the ad app in its own memory space and let it recycle often and not impact the rest of the forum, but I've not talked to Bruce about that, been TOO busy...
btw - alabamatoy - nice site.
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Posted: 14 December 2010 at 7:44pm |
Hi Bill I think it would work and it would not cost you anything to implement it. If you look at your current header file then I think you would need to edit from where it starts with: <!-- Begin - Site: TheAMCForum Zone: main-banner --> and ends with <!-- End - Site: TheAMCForum Zone: main-banner --> And replace the code in between with this:
<%
Dim strarrayimage(3), strarraylink(3)
Dim randomval
'enter names of random banner images
strarrayimage(0) = "/forum/bannerimages/2_star_rating.png"
strarrayimage(1) = "/forum/bannerimages/3_star_rating.png"
strarrayimage(2) = "/forum/bannerimages/4_star_rating.png"
strarrayimage(3) = "/forum/bannerimages/5_star_rating.png"
'enter links associated with above listed files
strarraylink(0) = "http://www.link2"
strarraylink(1) = "http://www.link3"
strarraylink(2) = "http://www.link4"
strarraylink(3) = "http://www.link5"
randomval = Int(Rnd(1)*UBound(strarrayimage))
Response.Write("<a href=""" & strarraylink(randomval) & """><img src=""" & strarrayimage(randomval) & """ ></a>")
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as the example stated. Obviously as you say the actual extension is the only difference, but I cannot see why it would not work. I'd advise you to make a backup of the includes/header.asp file which is the one you would need to change! If you are unsure, then PM me and I'll see if I can help you with this
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Posted: 15 December 2010 at 9:21pm |
That script won't work for FLASH because flash uses a variable that's in the file. So the script would have to be something like if xxx = fla (or whatever) then do whatever. When you click on the flash file, it passes a variable if I have that correct. The banner programs take that into account. The Flash file doesn't act like a normal image. one example - THIS is inside the flash file:
myButton_btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(url, "_blank");
};
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Scotty32
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Posted: 15 December 2010 at 9:47pm |
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Your using BanManPro for your advert system?
Does it now allow you to enter HTML for the advert?
(according to the site it says it does)
If this is the case, simply enter the code provided with the flash image
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Posted: 16 December 2010 at 12:55am |
Uh, we aren't having problems with links in banman, I was stating that the code pasted here in this thread that does random image display will not work for flash because it doesn't deal with how flash handles links. You have to pass the link as a variable to the flash ad. That code doesn't do it.
Banmanpro handles flash ads wonderfully. The issue is the memory overhead.
So I was thinking if I could simply use code to display random ads, that would be fine, except the code as posted here won't do flash. It will not display a flash ad that's "clickable".
This is part of the code, and the url for the link is defined elsewhere in the program.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript> var ShockMode = 0; if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin) { if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) ShockMode = 1; } else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0 && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 9")>=0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT")>=0)) { document.write('<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n'); document.write('on error resume next \n'); document.write('ShockMode = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4"))) '); document.write('<\/SCRIPT\> '); } if ( ShockMode ) { document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'); document.write(' codebase=" http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"'); document.write(' ID=banner WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="100" >'); document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=" http://theamcforum.com/forum/ads/alternator.swf?url=[BanManProURL]"> '); document.write(' <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> '); document.write(' <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=autohigh> '); document.write('<EMBED SRC=" http://theamcforum.com/forum/ads/alternator.swf?url=[BanManProURL]"'); document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="100"'); document.write(' QUALITY=autohigh wmode="transparent"'); document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE=" '">http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">'); document.write('</EMBED>'); document.write('</OBJECT>'); } else if (!(navigator.appName && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("2.")>=0)){ document.write('<A HREF="[BanManProURL]" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC=" http://theamcforum.com/forum/ads/alt-ad.gif" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="100" BORDER="0"></A>'); } </SCRIPT> |
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