Problem with banners on my frontpage/mainpage, please help!

prowler · 14.05.2004, 22:38

Ok, Im trying to add some banners for sponsorship with my LAN parties that I have. Some require their banner to be on the main page. I've got the banner clients all setup, each banner managed and they sporaticly show up on the frontpage at the very bottom. I want them all to show up, just one every now and then. If i click on the 'home' button 4 times ill see all 4 of my different banners that I want on the frontpage? How do i correct this?

Thanks for ANY info.

Prowler

mmx · 15.05.2004, 08:08

Have you tried to use the ArtBanners component?

prowler · 17.05.2004, 03:09

Yeah, Ive tried it and after making a new category, not using the ones named banner 100x100 and 468x40 or something like that, then setting up the clients, and then matching the banners to the clients, It still doesnt work! My site is www.digitalhavoc.ws/mambo and its on the right hand side and says "sponsors" And then says for me to set the banners up. I have no idea why they arent working, and the email on the information page isnt up anymore.

I uploaded the images to the banners folder inside the mambo folder and the images appear when i set up the banners while in administrator, but then when i refresh the page, nothing comes up!

Im outta ideas, please help! My sponsors are wondering where their banners are and if any of you run LAN parties, you'll know that sponsors make or break them!

Thanks for any help!

Prowler

mmx · 17.05.2004, 03:13

I'll try to get back to you later tonight after I track down a set of files where I have it running. They may be on tape somewhere.

mmx · 17.05.2004, 03:33

The Artbanners file has five zip files in it. Each of these files has its own readme.txt file. The categories parameter mentioned in the error messages is explained in the individual readme files. It lets you associate a specific module with one or more banner categories. The explanation is below:

Quote:

categories: The IDs of categories which from have been taken banners for displaying.
Examples: categories=1,1
(Shows 2(two) banners from category with ID=1)
categories=1,2,3
(Shows 3(three) banners from categories with IDs=1 or 2 or 3)
categories=3
(Shows 1(one) banner from category with ID=3)

To specify the categories parameter values, open each module with Module Manager and enter the categories=n,n,n values in the Parameters field at the bottom of the module form. n,n,n are the category numbers you assigned to your banners.