D.Y.Solutions - DYBanners

DYBanners

Created:

23/08/2008

Compatibility:

License:

GPL

Commercial Type:

Non-Commercial

Version:

1.5.4

Last Updated:

29/03/2008

JED URL:

DYBanners

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General

DYBanners is a Plugin that will allow you to insert a banner into a joomla article for uses such as a links page. You can then monitor the usage as normal in the banners area.

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UPDATE:

DYBanners is now packaged as a component which adds 2 plugins (The DYBanners one as before plus an Editor Button with advanced options)

Any help fixing/improving is always welcome.

Instructions

To use this Extensions, you upload it using the normal Joomla Installer and then go to the plugin to enable it and set the details you want. Then when you create an article there will be an editor button that when pressed will allow you to enter the settings you require.

How to use (Latest Version):

{##dybanners}a,b,c,d,e,f{/##dybanners} or {##dybanners}a{/##dybanners} if the default settings are ok (I have added the ## parts here so it is not changed to a banner, they are not required).

- a is the banner ID or you can use title in version 1.0.2 onwards to use a banner with the same name as the article title or random as of version 1.0.7.

- b is the window option that the banner click url points to. 0 is top (Parent Window), 1 is self (New window with browser navigation) and 2 is a pop-up window without browser navigation. If you enter no value or leave the default entered by the NEW Editor Button then 1 is used by default.

- c is the banner style. The CSS style will now be #dybannersx for the main DIV where x is the number for the plugin occurance increasing on each occurance of {##dybanners} and .dybannersclassc for the DIV Class where c is the style suffix if used, so if you added 3 to the style_suffix part of the syntax you insert in the content then the CSS would be .dybannersclass3 otherwise it would be .dybannersclass. I have removed the dybanners_inner class and have put the banners inside "paragrapths" so the sample CSS would be as below:

For all banners
.dybannersclass p {
text-align: center;
border: 2px solid #000;
}

.dybannersclass img {
margin-right: 25px;
border: 2px solid #a9e671;
}

For a banner with the style_suffix set as 3
.dybannersclass3 p {
text-align: right;
border: 2px solid #ff0000;
}

.dybannersclass3 img {
margin-right: 25px;
border: 2px solid #000;
}

- d is the banner image alt description. If you enter no value or leave the default entered by the NEW Editor Button then the banner name will be used by default.

- e is the client id that is used with random in the banner field to display random banners from that client (Can be used with f).

- f is the category id that is used with random in the banner field to display random banners from that category (Can be used with e).

Screenshots

Editor Button Screen

Demo

Below I have entered {dybanners#}2{/dybanners#} for the banner with ID 2 and added the "#" so it is not converted here as well (They are not required).

Changelog

Version: 1.5.4 - 15/11/2009 (CHANGED TO A COMPONENT WHICH INCLUDES BOTH THE MAIN PLUGIN AND THE NEW EDITOR BUTTON.)

Same features as 1.0.9 above.

Improved the Editor Button so you can pick the banner, client, e.t.c. from drop-down lists.

Both plugins enabled on installation so you can insert straight away.

The extra div image (Transparent) added to allow a click url to work with a flash banner is removed as it shows the click url when you hover over the flash banner but it does not work as a link, it will be added again if a solution is found.

Version: 1.0.9 - 14/11/2009

Changed the syling to alllow the banner/bannerset to be styled and positioned.

Removed the extra div image (Transparent) added to allow a click url to work with a flash banner as it shows the click url when you hover over the flash banner but it does not work as a link, will be added again if a solution is found

Note:

The CSS style will now be #dybannersx for the main DIV where x is the number for the plugin occurance increasing on each occurance of {##dybanners} and .dybannersclassc for the DIV Class where c is the style suffix if used, so if you added 3 to the style_suffix part of the syntax you insert in the content then the CSS would be .dybannersclass3 otherwise it would be .dybannersclass. I have removed the dybanners_inner class and have put the banners inside "paragrapths" so the sample CSS would be as below:

Version: 1.0.8 - 08/11/2009

You can now use the "random" fetaure from 1.0.7 above but you can limit it by client, category or both.

Created a DYBanners Editor Button.

Added another error message for the DYBanners Editor Button to warn if the default value is not changed on the banner field.

Updated the PDF output that was forgotton in 1.0.7.