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Berkowitz
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Feb 19, 2008, 7:46 AM
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Hi,
My page contains banners which I use to put ads in. What i want to do is to be able to put my banner pic in my page through CMS but I also need to be able to position them in different div tags on different pages. Because my ads will be different form page to page. Now i've done it with multiple fiels in my content. ex: AD1 :Banner1 (pic), Banner2(empty), Banner3(empty) ; AD2:
Banner1 (empty), Banner2(pic), Banner3(empty) ; ...
so my code could be
<?php echo $record['Banner1'] ?>
<?php echo $record['Banner2'] ?>
<?php echo $record['Banner3'] ?> (but for my first page I don't need banner 3, so a delete it in my code.)
And now I have to leave out the one's I don't need or don't put anything in them in my CSM but what i really want is to have only one
<?php echo $record['Banner'] ?>
so i mean:
ad1: Banner
ad2: Banner
ad3: Banner
But all three bannerfields contain different pic's. So my PageViewer reads
<?php echo $record['Banner'] ?>
<div id="ad1"><?php echo $record['Banner'] ?></div>
<div id="ad2"><?php echo $record['Banner'] ?></div>
...
Do you know what i mean?
Thans in advance like always
Berkowitz
(This post was edited by Berkowitz on Feb 19, 2008, 7:48 AM)
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Dave
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Feb 19, 2008, 9:05 AM
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So, you have multiple banner fields. And some of the fields are filled out and some are blank. And you want a way to display all the banner fields that are not blank with a single variables and have them wrapped in div tags?
Is that right? If not give me some more detail and I'll keep trying! :)
Some questions: Are they text fields or upload fields? And are they extra fields in your content (eg: news, articles) or do you have a separate section editor for banners?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Berkowitz
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Feb 19, 2008, 10:41 AM
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To answer your questions. It are wysiwyg fields. And i have an seperate section where al my banners are.
i've put screenshots as attachment.
As you can see in my content.jpg attachment I just want to use 1 field for all my banners, but in every ad there's another pic.
Do you get what want? :). If not just keep asking the information you can use :).
Again thanks for all you're trouble your doing.
(This post was edited by Berkowitz on Feb 19, 2008, 11:02 AM)
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Dave
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Feb 19, 2008, 1:04 PM
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Ok, I'm still not sure I understand completely. What about this, where it shows which ever banner is first defined?
<?php
if ($record['Banner1']) { echo $record['Banner1']; }
else if ($record['Banner2']) { echo $record['Banner2']; }
else if ($record['Banner3']) { echo $record['Banner3']; }
else { echo "No banner available"; }
?>
That way you could use that code and it will always show the first banner that is available in one of those 3 fields.
Is that guess closer?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Berkowitz
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Feb 19, 2008, 1:17 PM
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no what i want is to replace banner1, banner2, ... by just Banner.
So in my ads I wanna have
Title
Banner
Content
but in every ad, banner is another pic. So now if I use my php code from de php generator
<?php echo $record['banner'] ?>
It would show my banners one by one underneath or next to each other, right?
But what I want is to position every banner in a div tag. Because I have 2 or more ads on a page.
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Dave
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Feb 19, 2008, 2:17 PM
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Ok, I'm still not totally clear. Maybe if we could break it down into smaller steps.
So you want:
1) All banners printed out (except blank ones)
2) Banners printer beside each other in the HTML
3) Banners to have divs around them
4) Banners to all be in one variable
Is that right?
Here's some code that puts all the banners in one variable with divs around them:
<?php
$banners = "";
if ($record['Banner1']) { $banners .= "<div id='ad1'>{$record['Banner1']}</div>"; }
if ($record['Banner2']) { $banners .= "<div id='ad2'>{$record['Banner2']}</div>"; }
if ($record['Banner3']) { $banners .= "<div id='ad3'>{$record['Banner3']}</div>"; }
?>
Then you could show all banners like this:
Am I any closer? I'm really trying here... :)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Berkowitz
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Feb 19, 2008, 2:40 PM
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no sorry that's not what i mean... :).
those blank fields are erased. I don't what to have blank fields.
the only fiels I have are
Title
Banner
Content
that's how it is made (see attachement).
But in every ad, the pic in banner is different.
there are 2 or more ads i want to show on my page's.
so, in every ad Bannerfield is different.
<?php $record['banner'] ?> this is what i want in a div.
but when i use this he just shows every bannerfield in every div i put my code in. But I just want 1 bannerfield / div tag.
So i need some kind of recognition of which ad he has to show the bannerfield, I think.
sorry for my difficult question ... :) but thanks in advance.
Berkowitz
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Dave
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Feb 20, 2008, 9:49 AM
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Ok, I think I've got it. You let me know.
You have a "Section Editor" for all your banners and a different section editor for your articles or content. Is that right?
You want to show some random banners from your banner section on your content page.
If that's right, you'd do it with a list viewer and limit the perpage to 3 (or however many banners you wanted) and set the 'where' to match the type of banner you wanted.
Another way, say you had 3 different types of banners (top banners, side banners, and bottom banners). You would use 3 list viewers. One to load each type of banner, and limit it to perpage 1 to only return 1 of each type.
Does that make sense?
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Berkowitz
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Feb 20, 2008, 12:10 PM
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I have a section editor for my Ads. In every ad are both my banner and my content.
With a ListViewer I want to show my banners ($record['banner']) in different div tags.
so $record['banner'] contains in every ad a different pic. When i do ListView now he just show every banner of every ad. but I want to be able to filter out so i can show one specific banner in one specific div tag.
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Dave
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Feb 21, 2008, 1:15 PM
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Ok, how do you want to filter the banner ads? Do you have another field? What is the rule for when a certain banner should go in a certain div tag?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Berkowitz
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Feb 22, 2008, 12:56 AM
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People have to decide in the section editor from 2 listboxes. They choose for which page they're adding an ad and what position [left or right"] (Is this a good method or do you know/suggest something else?)
http://www.1id.be/test.php
it's about the div tags at the bottom where you see the 2pics. ["Starter" and the long one with the flowers on the right]
The meaning of all this is that people should be able to change the pic's without me having to change anything of code. Of course I'm setting restrictions for the width and height in my section editors 
Thanks for all your trouble concerning this thread .
Berkowitz
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Dave
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Feb 22, 2008, 8:52 AM
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So in the banner editor, there is a field for "position" and a field for "page". Right? Perhaps also a field for "banner size" also? And you want to only show a banner that matches each of the: page, position, and size?
I guess "size" and "position" are the same since left is always a different size from right.
If that's close (fingers crossed) what you're going to need is a separate list viewer code for each banner. And in the 'where' option you'd set tell it to only load banners the match the page number (or name) and position. So you'd have something like:
$options['where'] = "pageNum = {$record['num']} AND position = 'left'"
$options['perPage'] = 1;
$options['pageNum'] = 1;
Another way to do it would be to have 3 list pulldowns in the page section. One for each banner type. And have those load their values from the banner section. You could either have 3 different banner sections (left banners, right banners, etc) and have each field load the banner num and name for that.
Then you'd have 3 fields like this for your record:
$record['banner1Num']
$record['banner2Num']
$record['banner3Num']
Then you could use some "page viewer" code to load just that banner.
Hope that makes sense. If you want me to login and take a look at your CMS setup you can email me login details to dave@interactivetools.com (don't post login details to forum).
Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Berkowitz
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Feb 26, 2008, 7:59 AM
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I'm pleased to inform you that now it works the way i want it to work  . Now it seems so simple (like all solutions when you figured it out  )
Many thanks for all your trouble and your help. Truly a great piece of software en a super support squad.
Thank you
Berkowitz
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Dave
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Feb 26, 2008, 8:51 AM
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I'm _so_ glad to hear that! Thanks for posting back with an update. :)
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