anybody know a good script that will allow me to put rotating banners on my forum? i was trying to do to entropy banner from cpanel and putting it onto my yabb forum, but i cant, it wont let me, so i was thinking maybe a script somewhere, can someone recommend me a good script that allows the banner and the href link, kinda like this forum, on top of the forum, i see that the banners change from one to another, i was thinking of doing something similar, thanks in advance for help! :helpsmilie:

I do not have any in mind since I have never used any in the past. I would just google for it and check out hotscripts. I know hotscripts has a whole category of scripts for ad management.

oh duh, hotscripts, how would i forget lol, im gonna search there, but i would still like recommendations lol, cuz i dont wanna go trying out 50 different scripts and then pick whichever that works

are you limited at anything, can you use flash for your banner?

It's very simple, i can write one in less than a minute

PHP Code:

<?php
$array[1] = '1.gif;
$array[2] = '2.gif;
$array[3] = '3.gif;
$array[4] = '4.gif;
$array[5] = '5.gif;
$array[6] = '6.gif;
$array[7] = '7.gif;
$array[8] = '8.gif;
$array[9] = '9.gif;
echo $array[rand(1,count($array))];
?>

Just replace the "*.gif"s with image tags.

peter: no im not limited, i can put flash banners too

and 64bit: thanks for that, but how would i put a link with that, like an < a href tag to link it to their site thanks

I have a script. You can see it at http://IMGBoxUpload.net

I will sell it to you for $10. PM Me

joker If you want i can make dynamic "fun" banners that over roll on the site if you need one please PM me!

Originally Posted by njoker555

peter: no im not limited, i can put flash banners too

and 64bit: thanks for that, but how would i put a link with that, like an < a href tag to link it to their site thanks

PHP Code:

<?php 
$array[1] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image1" />';
$array[2] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image2" />'; 
$array[3] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image3" />'; 
$array[4] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image4" />'; 
$array[5] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image5" />'; 
$array[6] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image6" />'; 
$array[7] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image7" />'; 
$array[8] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image8" />'; 
$array[9] = '<img src="http://blah.com/image9" />'; 
echo $array[rand(1,count($array))]; 
?>

Replace the <img> tags with your own tags

I havent made 15 posts yet so its hard for me to post some help but

PHP Code:

$array[1] = '<a href="url here" target="_blank"><img scr="image1.gif" alt="banner"></a>'; 


try that ^^ obviously replacing the "url here"

hm..its not really working for me lol, should i put that right into my forum template? my forum is a perl based forum, maybe thats why

i know nothing about perl

you could try having thats as a page and you can use an include for relevant pages

Ok, so i've changed the approach abit so now all you need to do is insert an image into your page.

below are some links which are missing a w because i can't post link till i have 15 posts

Working example = ww.l2supremacy.com/rotate/random.gif

you can download the script from ww.l2supremacy.com/rotate/rotate.rar

it includes a readme if you need it!


hope that helps!

Perl isn't used very much anymore. I would suggest switching to a php-based forum before you have a lot of members and posts to deal with.

Or you could just learn perl.

i already tried to switch the forum to phpbb, but there are no converters from yabb2 to anything else lol, they made yabb2 new and no other softwares made a converter yet lol, bad time to try it i guess lol

With the script I included you should be able to host that script, and just add the image into the forum.