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Hi was wonedring if someone could help me

Im running phpnuke 7.9 (patched) and am wondering if there was any chance i could add a linkable banner to the top right side of my themes header.

I run a pc hardware review site and the left side of our header shows our site name - this is flash.
On the right side of the header is where i want to place a linkable banner for one of my sponsors.

heres an example of what i want to do:

any help would be greatly apreciated.
thanks
darren

If your asking is it possible? Then it depends on the way your theme head/header.php is built.

Meaning that if the whole header is flash. Then you could insert 1 banner there if you had the original flash file.

If its html/php you can adjust the header tables to allow for a complete banner system.

hi thanks for your reply

I dont think the whole header is flash - because when the theme maker helped me edit the header it was only the left side which was visible in the fla. and swf files.

i only know the basics of html/php and ive taken a look in the theme.php and the header.html files - and am completely puzzled when it comes to all that code.

i wouldnt have the first idea of how to configure this.

I have edited php/html files before - so with direct instructions on where i would have to edit the file and what i would have to insert - i could do this.

here is part of the theme.php file:

/************************************************************/
/* Function themeheader() */
/************************************************************/
function themeheader() {
global $user, $sitename, $slogan, $cookie, $prefix;
cookiedecode($user);
$username = $cookie[1];
if ($username == "") {
$username = "Anonymous";
}
$public_msg = public_message();
echo "$public_msg";
//$topics_list = "<select name=\"topic\" onChange='submit()'>\n";
//$topics_list .= "<option value=\"\">All Topics</option>\n";
//$toplist = sql_query("select topicid, topictext from $prefix"._topics." order by topictext", $dbi);
//while(list($topicid, $topics) = sql_fetch_row($toplist, $dbi)) {
//if ($topicid==$topic) { $sel = "selected "; }
//$topics_list .= "<option $sel value=\"$topicid\">$topics</option>\n";
//$sel = "";

if ($username == "Anonymous") {
$theuser = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=new_user\">Login /Register</a>";
} else {
$theuser = "Hello $username!";
}
echo "<body topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">";
$tmpl_file = "themes/Evasion/header.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
blocks(left);
$tmpl_file = "themes/Evasion/left_center.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
}

/************************************************************/
/* Function themefooter() */
/************************************************************/

function themefooter() {
global $index, $foot1, $banners, $foot2, $foot3, $foot4;
/************************************************************/
/* banners are set with openbox function on the footer, if */
/* you like to have it on the header you can do that as well*/
/************************************************************/
if ($banners == 1) {
OpenTable();
include("banners.php");
CloseTable();
}
if ($index == 1) {
$tmpl_file = "themes/Evasion/left_center.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
blocks(right);
}
$footer_message = "$foot1 $foot2 $foot3 $foot4";
$tmpl_file = "themes/Evasion/footer.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
}

/************************************************************/
/* Function themeindex() */
/* This function format the stories on the Homepage */
/************************************************************/
function themeindex ($aid, $informant, $time, $title, $counter, $topic, $thetext, $notes, $morelink, $topicname, $topicimage, $topictext) {
global $anonymous, $tipath;
$ThemeSel = get_theme();
if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage")) {
$t_image = "themes/$ThemeSel/images/topics/$topicimage";
} else {
$t_image = "$tipath$topicimage";
}
if ($notes != "") {
$notes = " "._NOTE." $notes\n";
} else {
$notes = "";
}
if ("$aid" == "$informant") {
$content = "$thetext$notes\n";
} else {
if($informant != "") {
$content = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&uname=$informant\">$informant</a> ";
} else {
$content = "$anonymous ";
}
$content .= ""._WRITES." \"$thetext\"$notes\n";
}
//Code Changed - just show posted by
$posted = ""._POSTEDBY." ";
$posted .= get_author($aid);
$posted .= " "._ON." $time $timezone ";
//End Code Change
$datetime = substr($morelink, 0, strpos($morelink, "|") - strlen($morelink));
$morelink = substr($morelink, strlen($datetime) + 2);
$tmpl_file = "themes/Evasion/story_home.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
}

The good news is that the flash movie sits inside a cell in the table that makes up your header. It is possible to put a link banner in the header if there's enough room beside the flash movie.

The bad news is you'll probably need to rewrite the whole table that makes up th header. Whoever created the theme used the garbage spit out by Image Ready instead of writing their own code. The result of that is that you have a table full of empty cells and unnecessary spacer.gifs. Trying to figure out all the colspans and rowspans in that mess is a headache waiting to happen.