Banners on Ads Page

How an I insert banners on my ads page? I have seen on other sites where there are banners in both the Latest Featured Ads block as well as the All Ads block.

To put something in those blocks, you would need to modify the code that generates the main ad page.

modules\boonex\ads\classes\BxAdsModule.php

The function that generates the page for d7.0.5 is called getAdsMainPage() from lines 2065-2103

Ok, thanks for that info. But isn't there some simpler method for a non programmer to use? I don't want to mess around with the code.

No there is not. The main ads page is not in the page builders so it has to be modified by hand.

I have just posted a full tutorial here.

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/Making-changes-to-the-dolphin-main-ads-page-.htm

Wow! That's more than I expected. I'll study your tutorial and apply it as I can. I appreciate your effort. thanks!

Correct. You need to replace the words My Content here with what you actually want there.

You will need to post your code so i can see whats wrong.

Here's the section of code that I changed -

$sTopAdOfAllDayValue = $oTmpAdsSearch->displayResultBlock();
$sTopAdOfAllDayValue = ($oTmpAdsSearch->aCurrent['paginate']['totalNum'] == 0) ? MsgBox(_t('_Empty')) : $sTopAdOfAllDayValue;
$sTopAdOfAllDayValue = '<div style="padding:9px;text-align:center;"><a target='new' href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=ACGAoBc2QOk&offerid=173444.10000231&type=4&subid=0"><IMG alt="Smarthome, Inc." border="0" src="http://www.smarthome.com/lsbanners/468x60standard3.gif"></a><IMG border="0" width="1" height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=ACGAoBc2QOk&bids=173444.10000231&type=4&subid=0"></div>' . $sTopAdOfAllDayValue;
$sTopAdOfAllDaySection = DesignBoxContent(_t('_bx_ads_last_featured'), $sTopAdOfAllDayValue, 1);

Start with this correction first.

Here's the section of code that I changed I changed the singled quotes in <a target='new' with double quotes. See if this change works.

$sTopAdOfAllDayValue = $oTmpAdsSearch->displayResultBlock();
$sTopAdOfAllDayValue = ($oTmpAdsSearch->aCurrent['paginate']['totalNum'] == 0) ? MsgBox(_t('_Empty')) : $sTopAdOfAllDayValue;
$sTopAdOfAllDayValue = '<div style="padding:9px;text-align:center;"><a target="new" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=ACGAoBc2QOk&offerid=173444.10000231&type=4&subid=0"><IMG alt="Smarthome, Inc." border="0" src="http://www.smarthome.com/lsbanners/468x60standard3.gif"></a><IMG border="0" width="1" height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=ACGAoBc2QOk&bids=173444.10000231&type=4&subid=0"></div>' . $sTopAdOfAllDayValue;
$sTopAdOfAllDaySection = DesignBoxContent(_t('_bx_ads_last_featured'), $sTopAdOfAllDayValue, 1);

Yes, that did it! It came out exactly right. Any idea on how to remove the box there that says "Empty"

I really appreciate your help here. The site documentation is very weak.

You don't want to remove that. That just means there are no member ads. When your members post ads, then their ads will be listed instead.

You may want to actually place some ads and make a couple of those featured so you will see what those boxes will actually look like when members start placing ads so you can see if you actually want to place your banner there.

OK - I understand now. I really appreciate all your help.