Posted by rodney.rollison on December 20, 2011 at 7:19pm
Okay, since I am still kind of new to the drupal world I hope I explain this correctly...
We had a custom theme built and it was based somewhat on the Marinella theme from Drupal (Drupal 7).
The company that did this kind of took what they needed to build our custom template and removed the Banner portion to put something else in its place.
I am wanting to put the Banner portion back into our custom theme and orient accordingly.
I have it fixed to where I can add banners via the theme on the admin side, but I cannot figure out why they are not rendering to the page.
I copied every line of code that I can see to our theme to make it work, but to no avail.
I am open to suggestions if anyone has any on how to fix this.
Thanks.
Rodney
Comments
Add the Rotating Banner Module
Add the Rotating Banner module to your sites>all>modules folder, activate it under the modules admin, and configure it.
Place Rotating Banner as a block
Follow-up to last comment, you must place the Rotating Banner as a block on the structure>blocks page.
Well, this theme doesn't seem
Well, this theme doesn't seem to use the Rotating Banner module. I am looking at the default Marinelli theme and I don't see that module activated and it works fine in default setup version I have locally.
Here is the code snippet I'm looking at:
<?phpif (!$usebanner): // Use drupal region
?>
<?phpprint render($page['advertise']);
?>
<?phpelseif ($banner_image): // Use marinelli banners
?>
<?phpprint $banner_text;
?>
<?phpprint $banner_nav;
?>
<?phpprint $banner_image;
?>
<?phpendif;
?>
The variables here are not set, but in the template.php file in the $vars['banner_image'], etc, they are set, just not making it to the page.tpl.php page for some reason.
Use the Rotating Banner module to make it easier
Rodney, I do understand that you have until now approached this by trying to adjust the code, but seeing that your theme developers have deactivated the banner in code and nothing you've tried to this point has worked to reactivate it, a very simple and reliable solution is to use the Rotating Banner module. It will create the exact same effect. This module works beautifully and is supported by the developers at Drupal Gardens, with ongoing maintenance for any needed updates. You can place banners anywhere you place blocks. I have just finished working with this module myself if you would like to see a live demo, http://elitepianist.drupalgardens.com/node
Also, just as a reminder, you might get just as much help or more if you post support requests like this in the support forums where the answers will benefit everyone: http://drupal.org/forum
Thanks!
Rotating Banner
I have added the rotating banner module as you suggested.
It is loading on the page initially, but on refresh the banner's stop rotating. Not sure why that is.
Also the Number or Button controls are not showing up as they should.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Rodney
Replies moved to Theme Development forum
Hi Rodney,
I've copied this support request to the Theme Development forum so that replies will be visible by many more people as well as be helpful to the larger community. Posting support requests in the forums or issues queues is also better than in a group email list because that way you draw from a larger audience for help and the replies are not mass forwarded to our entire group email list each time. So, I've posted a reply to your previous comment at the following link, where we can continue the discussion:
http://drupal.org/node/1379198#comment-5391344
Working..
I finally got it to work...I visited many blogs on this, found what I needed...Yeah, it's a little buggy. Thanks for the info.