How do you make a pop up banner

Homie · April 08, 2004, 10:51:02 AM

Hi guys what i need help with is how do you add a POP UP Banner ON your SMF Forum when you enter it.

Thanks

Regards
Homie

Oldiesmann · April 08, 2004, 11:00:15 AM

Just use the window.open function described here and use the "onload" attribute of the body tag, like so:

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<body onload="window.open('banner.htm','windowName','features');">

Homie · April 08, 2004, 11:03:23 AM

Thanks ill give it a try when i go home

tonight

B · April 08, 2004, 01:43:41 PM

I hate popups... no offense.

Just something to keep in mind...I know I shy away from sites that use popups.

B

Daniel D. · April 08, 2004, 02:24:00 PM

Why don't you use Opera or Firefox/Mozilla ? They are even better than IE...

Grudge · April 08, 2004, 03:07:17 PM

FYI, Oldiesmann's solution will work but will load on EVERY page load on your forum. If the pop up should only appear every so often I would recommend setting a cookie or loading it only in BoardIndex.

BrandonMiller · April 08, 2004, 04:49:07 PM

I use an app called php adds. It was totally free and is amazingly in depth. Tracking of views and clicks on banners, options for pop up (I don't use em), and you can target regions, IP's, browsers, etc..

Very nice script, runs smooth.

It runs the banner on top of http://www.rivercityrockcrawlers.com/forum/index.php and gives reports to each of the banner people weekly (or any date I set, or they can log in to their own account and check stats at any time)

I haven't found any downfalls to using it, it's great..

Homie · April 08, 2004, 04:49:59 PM

Thanks you very much

B · April 08, 2004, 06:09:51 PM

Quote from: Daniel D. on April 08, 2004, 02:24:00 PMWhy don't you use Opera or Firefox/Mozilla ? They are even better than IE...

Yeah, I agree...and I do use them. I was thinking more along the lines of Homie's other users that only use IE. I haven't run across many people who enjoy popups... lol It was just something I thought I'd point out.

B

BrandonMiller · April 08, 2004, 06:16:44 PM

if I can convert my .js to work in mozilla I would :-[

My naviation simply doesn't show in mozilla but I would like to make it work somehow..

<script language="JavaScript" src="/templates/menu.js">

</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="/templates/menucontext.js"></script>

<script language="JavaScript">

showToolbar();

</script>

<script language="JavaScript">

function UpdateIt(){

if (document.all){

document.all["MainTable"].style.top = document.body.scrollTop;

setTimeout("UpdateIt()", 200);

}

}

UpdateIt();

</script>

[Unknown] · April 08, 2004, 07:03:30 PM

Uhhh, yup... here's your problem:

document.all["MainTable"].style.top

That there's some proprietary MSIE code. You expect it to work on Mozilla?

If you must support IE 4, do this: (SMF only!)

fetchById("MainTable").style.top

If you use document.all in other places, same idea.

-[Unknown]

BrandonMiller · April 08, 2004, 07:44:21 PM

Quote from: [Unknown] on April 08, 2004, 07:03:30 PM
Uhhh, yup... here's your problem:

document.all["MainTable"].style.top

That there's some proprietary MSIE code. You expect it to work on Mozilla?

If you must support IE 4, do this: (SMF only!)

fetchById("MainTable").style.top

If you use document.all in other places, same idea.

-[Unknown]

Is there a way to get around it outside of SMF for the rest of my site? In other words is there a way to make that work in IE 6, Opera, Firefox, Netscape, etc..

Currently it works in IE and older versions of netscape only but it is so simple. I guess I need to switch to ssi and dhtml or something

[Unknown] · April 08, 2004, 07:46:55 PM

Just include the script.js in the defualt theme's directory...

Themes/default/script.js

-[Unknown]

BrandonMiller · April 08, 2004, 07:49:58 PM

thanks I'll tinker tomorrow. In the meantime I just added a simple little link bar deal

http://www.rivercityrockcrawlers.com/forum/index.php

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