Random Side Banners Outside Main Body in Fixed Position

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Random Side Banners

Quite a few people have asked how do you add side banners outside of your forum's main body and no one has offered a solution that I know of.

This mod allows you to have random banners outside of your forums main body in a fixed position. The banners will rotate with every unique visit to your forums similar to the dszuecs's "New way to force guests to register" Mod. The php code to make the banners rotate could possibly be written better, right now you don't always get a different random banner unless you completely close your browser and come back with a new session it seems.

The rotate.php code is not mine I found it not only in dszuecs's New way to force guests to register Mod but also online. I did however use his Mod as a base to get this Mod done.

If anyone can fix the rotate.php file so that you get a random with every page load that would be great.

The banners used in this mod have the dimensions of height:435px width:140px but you can change them to any size you want.

Included are the files to upload to your FORUMROOT using FTP:

Files included are:

1. left_banner_rotate.php
2. right_banner_rotate.php
3. images (includes 1 png file you can use as a template for your banners)
4. additional_css.txt (code to add to your additional_css)
5. header_template.txt (code to add to your header template)

You will need to make 2 manual template edits to your additional.css and your header template.

The code included in the additional_css file can be added at the very end of your additional.css file.

div.left-banner {
background:url(left_banner_rotate.php);
background-repeat: no-repeat; 
display:block;
height:435px;
width:140px;
position:fixed;
left:5px;
top:50px;
}
div.right-banner {
background:url(right_banner_rotate.php);
background-repeat: no-repeat; 
display:block;
height:435px;
width:140px;
position:fixed;
right:5px;
top:50px;
}

The code included in the header_template file must be added at the very top before all other code in your header template.

<div class="left-banner"></div>
<div class="right-banner"></div>

This is my first Mod contribution you guys so be gentle with me. I am just learning vBulletin's way of doing things and hopefully I can contribute other small Mods in the feature.

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