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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain

    Hi All

    I have just done a fresh install of 9.2.. have not used Tiki for a while but tried out the banners feature and the following is not working.

    1. When I try to upload the banner image from local storage, it appears not to, but stores the name. Also, the image does not display.

    2. If I use the HTML field when editing the banner, the contents are not linked to the html address within HTML so no clicks are recorded.

    3. Using the URL field to grab an image to be displayed such as tiki-download_file.php?fileId=19 outputs garbage into the ad zone.

    4. When I use the page tiki-admin.php?page=ads to publish my banner - nothing is displayed - it used to go at to the right of the site logo. Dunno, this feature could be deprecated.

    None of the themes I tried would improve the situation.
    I'm using Firefox (16.0.2 - on Linux)

    Anyone got an answer for my woes?
    Am I doing something wrong - don't think so.. ?

    Cheers

    Simmi

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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain

    Update.

    Also inop with Opera Browser

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    Banners are working perfectly for me on my Tiki 9.x sites. Some things to check:

    J. wrote:
    3. Using the URL field to grab an image to be displayed such as tiki-download_file.php?fileId=19 outputs garbage into the ad zone.

    Try using the display property instead of downloading.

    J. wrote:
    4. When I use the page tiki-admin.php?page=ads to publish my banner - nothing is displayed

    You should use the Banners not Site Ads. You can place the banners anywhere you want. Please http://doc.tiki.org/banners\see the docs for details.

    HTH,

    - Rick | My Tiki Blog | My Tiki UserPage

    Why be a dummy? Get smarty! TikiForSmarties.com
    Tiki for Smarties, your source for the best (and only) Tiki books, guides, and tutorials.
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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain

    Hi Ricks

    >>Try using the display property instead of downloading.

    Yup tried adding the display attribute..
    http://xyz.com/display19
    and tiki-download_file.php?fileId=19&display

    I get a whole load of stuff like �PNG  IHDRdd��sRGB��� pHYs��tIME� 5�' IDATx�uk����

    This happens whether I use the display attribute or not.

    This happens on both my dev machine (locally) and from the webserver.
    I tried in both firefox and opera - same result.

    >>You should use the Banners not Site Ads.

    Yes, I know. I could not get banners to work in modules cos it output trash to the screen or just was absent, so in frustration, I tried the site-ads as last resort (as they used to work) and stupidly, I thought if the facility to activate and publish site ads is still in place, I thought I would use it. Alas, not.

    I tried viewing from two other pc's and all get the same trash onscreen, so I know now that it is not a browser issue on my machine.

    One final thing. I pointed the image URL at another site for the image and get different trash in the banner zone.

    Simply got me baffled.
    I even re-installed again, just in case.

    Any more ideas?

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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain

    Update 2:

    I thought it would be settings in my php.ini on both the dev machines and server, but nothing stands out.

    Both are fresh install of LAMP Server
    One under Linux Mint 13(Dev PC)(AMD64) and the Other is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Server)(AMD64)

    I checked Magic Quotes, nope turned off by default.
    In further trying to debug this problem, I have tweeked upwards the amount of RAM for scripts, file uploads and PHP etc. Turned on Error Reporting For all errors (none logged). Turned ON the zlib output compression and set the handler as empty. Any of these actions did not fix the problem.

    Nothing in /var/log/* to shout about except for an apache error log where
    Mon Oct 29 17:32:57 2012 error client 127.0.0.1 File does not exist: /var/www/fg/temp/public/codemirror_modes.js, referer: http://fg/tiki-admin_system.php?do=all

    Other than that, fairly clean.

    Still scratchin miyead..

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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain

    Further update..

    I installed a fresh server with Debian (latest packages)
    then installed tikiwiki without delay, with no other mods to php, apache,
    I still get the same problem.

    Tried on Firefox Variant - Iceweasel and another browser - Epiphany (directly on server) same problem persists..

    That's alot of work to get here..

    So, if your installation is working with then, I have to ask, exactly what params you are using for the banner record/field
    'Use image generated by URL (the image will be requested at the URL for each impression)' ?

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    Posted by Marc Laporte posts: 1633 Canada

    Can you reproduce issue on demo.tiki.org?

    M ;-)

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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain
    Done
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    Posted by J. posts: 15 Spain

    Bump ....

    I know someone got annoyed by the trash on the demo site cos they disabled the module. So, any thoughts??

    Anyone got an idea on how to use this feature correctly??
    No-one??

    Please!

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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    Looks like there might be a problem with uploading an image or using a remote image for a banner. As a workaround:

    1. Upload your banner image to a public file gallery.
    2. Create an HTML banner. Something like:

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    a href="your link here"> img src="display##" />

    Where ## is the file ID of your uploaded image.


    HTH,

    - Rick | My Tiki Blog | My Tiki UserPage

    Why be a dummy? Get smarty! TikiForSmarties.com
    Tiki for Smarties, your source for the best (and only) Tiki books, guides, and tutorials.
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