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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By : Monika Mathe
Book Image

Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By: Monika Mathe

Overview of this book

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

59. Create Rotating Banners that Link within Your Own Shop


This recipe shows you how to define product placement banners used in a box or added to any other part of your website. The placement groups can hold rotating banners of different formats—horizontal, vertical, or square, depending on where you would like to display them.

Presentation

Your Administration | Tools | Banner Manager will look like the following screenshot with groups of banners defined for product placement. One of the new groups with the format 120x120 pixels will be used in the right column, while the new horizontal group 468x60 pixels will be used in the footer instead of the default osCommerce banner. As two banners, HP Printer and There’s Something About Mary, have been added to the 120x120 pixels group, the banners in that section will rotate with each page load.

Your catalog section will pull a random advertisement for the box in the right column right from the 120x120 pixels group of banners defined for this...