Another useful tool for conversions is being able to attract the attention of your visitors and guide them to the parts of your site you really want them to see. We’ve come up with yet another great little PrestaShop module to do precisely that!
In this module you design a set of “creatives” or adverts that you want to display in either side column of your site and link these to categories, product pages or static pages in order to capture your customers and guide their shopping experience.
You can point them at your best value product, or promote your great delivery service; anything you can think of that you may want to highlight on your site is fair game! You can even link to another site, to promote someone else (but you don’t really want to do that now, do you).
This module is slightly more complex than our previous ones, so make sure you read the readme.html file contained in the archive. Please also consider a donation to ecartservice.net so we can keep justifying the time we spend bringing you nice little goodies to enhance your PrestaShop!! Note that you must upload the admin (appropriately renamed for your installation), classes, img and modules directories into the root folder for your site.
Latest update includes fix to allow deleting adverts (bug introduced in PrestaShop 1.1) and new hook placeholders for the page header and footer (in addition to the left and right side boxes).
Initial Release (September 2008) : Advert PrestaShop Module v1.0
Update for left column bug (November 2008) : Advert PrestaShop Module v1.1
Update to Admin Tab (January 2009) : Advert PrestaShop Module v1.2
Update to Add Hooks (January 2009) : Advert PrestaShop Module v1.3
Comments
49 responses to “Randomly Displayed Adverts and Callouts”
Presta 1.4.4. Images are not showing in Home page and Adverts Tab after uploading image from computer, above the Upload box, though the file size shows and file can be deleted with delete button. I have given the website’s home page as Link and text ”Look!”. The folder media on the server also does not show the uploaded image. On Live Edit, I can see the module appear blank in the left column. What should I correct?
Sadly this module is way out of date. I’ll try and update it soon, but sadly have to prioritise my “paid” work over these 🙁
Hi, I have just installed the module and all appeared to be fine… I have activated the module in the back office but when I click on the “Adverts” tab I get Tab file cannot be found. All the files appear to be in the right place on the server. Can you suggest a fix?… I am using PS 1.4.4
Best wishes : Dom
Hi,
I try to use this marvellous module, but i have a problem. all is right for installation, i activate it, no problem, i have the tab adverts on my back office. i’ts write new. i press it. when i have pressed, nothing it’s wirte administration panel, adverts, and after nothing appears. Why?
thnaks to answer
Hi,
Module works fine. Below some manual updates which I made to work correctly with Russian language because
my provider default collate is “latin1_swedish_ci”.
Therefore tables “advert” and “advert_lang” were created with same collate. I changed tables and field “description” collation to UTF8_general_ci”.
Probably need to fix it in the file /modules/adverts/adverts.php by replacing code at rows 39-53 with following one:
$sql_1=’CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `’._DB_PREFIX_.’advert`
(`id_advert` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` text,
`date_add` datetime NOT NULL,
`date_upd` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id_advert`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8′;
$result1 = Db::getInstance()->Execute($sql_1);
$sql_2=’CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `’._DB_PREFIX_.’advert_lang`
(`id_advert` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`id_lang` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`description` text,
PRIMARY KEY (`id_advert`,`id_lang`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8′;
I didn’t tested it because I made all changes manually. But it should be work with any provider.
Regards,
Kamal.
i’ve installed the module, and i load more banner..
on the front office i see only one banner? how i can display more banner on my site???
Just wondering how I can change so that I can post .gif and .swf files also.
A very cool module.. but i’d like to use some animated gif for my ads …. that’s not possible because you convert png and gif files to jpg…..
any solution ?
Thanks
JP
The module uses the standard PrestaShop object model for the image upload, which is why they get converted. I will probably revisit this at a later date to allow for other image formats as this does seem to be a sensible and popular request.
both,
1.2.0.8 dont work?????
1.2.0.1 seems work
That’s possible. I think the reason 1.2.1.0 was released so soon after 1.2.0.8 (a.k.a. 1.2 final!) was down to some fairly nasty bugs. I’m going through testing on 1.2.1.0 at the moment so will check it out when I get to this one.
Are you using 1.2.0.8 or 1.2.1.0?
thank you for your answer, I will use it on product page (right column), and wait for your update.
I will make a donation today 😉 your module is really great
Hi, i finally did it! yes! thank you very much! I love it! =D
hello, great module, works fine.
But i can’t put it on my home page, i suppose it it doesn’t work with homepage content hook
No, it currently doesn’t – it was originally intended for callouts in the side columns, but there’s no reason I can think of that would prevent adding the ‘homepage’ and ‘top’ (visible header) hooks – could result in some interesting layouts. I’ll put that on the list for the next version which will be released soon.
Hi. i have upload adminadverts.php in my Admin, advert.php in classes, admin img and t img in IMG and created ‘a’ folder in IMG, and uploaded advert module. But i can’t see any advert module in my back office Modules and Adverts tab says Bad SQL query… can you tell me what went wrong?…
Hi. i have upload adminadverts.php in my Admin, advert.php in classes, admin img and t img in IMG and created ‘a’ folder in IMG, and uploaded advert module. But i can’t see any advert module in my back office Modules and Adverts tab says Bad SQL query… can you tell me what went wrong?… =(
Hi, I tried my best to try to figure out but i failed… I am a newbie to all this files thingy. i have add news tabs in my back office,but i didn’t mange to upload all those files because i don’t know where is my ‘root’ folder… Can anyone tell me where is my ‘Root” of my site? pls… =(
Hi there, don’t worry — we all have to start somewhere!
The files for this need to go in the main Prestashop folder on your server, i.e. the one that contains the /classes, /modules, /themes, /config folders etc.
This is because it consists not just of a module, but also new classes, and an admin tab.
Let me know how you get on!
problems Solved!
Seeems because I got the different name on “admin” directory.
Just copy the file “AdminAdverts.php” inside the tabs directory to the tabs directory in you “Admin” directory.
To Jess and David, I hope it will solve the problems.
rafael
I got the same problem tooo “Tab does not exist” what happen ? I use prestatshop 1.1.5 and Adverts 1.3.
what’s wrong ?
rafael
Hi, I have the same, ” Tab does not exist” problem with Prestashop 1.1 and Adverts 1.3. Is this relate to permissions or something else?
I uploaded all the files and followed the instructions but when i click on the advert tab it says “Tab does not exist” have uploaded all the files and double checked them to no avail.
help please
I can only think that the permissions haven’t been set correctly – perhaps in the admin/tabs directory, although it could also be the file in the /classes directory.
Hi,
I have a problem accessing to Adverts tab. I get a message “access denied”. I have PrestaShop 1.1 and Adverts1.3. Could anyone help, please?
ok =) thanks i will try and work on it over here !
Regards
Mario
Mario, unfortunately no – not with the way the module works currently I’m afraid. These free modules get worked on when I have free time… and sadly there’s not a lot of that at the moment!
Hi first of all thanks for your module its very nice =)
i just installed it and it works great
i am only wondering how i can insert on a single page 3 different ads.
i duplicated the div in the tpl file but all 3 instances are the same images =(
can someone help me out?
Thanks!!
Mario
Never mind, i had error with transfering one php. Now it’s ok.
MUCH APPRECIATED!!!
WODP
I did as instructed, but i get: Tab does not exist
I’m having PS 1.1.0.5. What should i do?
THANKS!! WODP
Hi, i love your work.
Is it possible to open the link in a new window?
thnx
many thanks from here too 🙂
Got it. Thanks!
The media directory just contains some example media. I suspect that the img/a directory is missing as this is where the images are uploaded to (there’s an empty placeholder.txt file in theie that should cause you ftp client to create the directory). You may also need to set the permissions on this directory to allow the script to write to it.
Where does the media directory go? I don’t seem to have one on my default site. The consequence is “the file cannot be loaded” when uploading a picture.
exactamente este es el error que me da disculpa que te lo ponga en dos mensajes queria editar el anterior y desaparecio de repente
1 error
1. ocurrió un error mientras se cargaba la imagen
hola sabes instale todo pero me dice error al carga la imagen como puedo solucionarlo, intente revisanto la direccion de carga y no la consegui me puedes orientar
c’est bon j’ai trouvé et je vais oublié adverts
ayant suivit la procedure d’installation, je me retrouve avec un onglet mal placé dans mon backoffice comment le désisntaller ou le supprimer ??
It wasn’t hard to fix, so the new version is available now, which should fix the issue and allow adverts to be deleted again.
There have been a few changes to the admin architecture since this module was written, and as a result the delete button in the back office is now missing, so you only get an option to view or edit. The view option doesn’t work however….
This needs a bit of an overhaul for version 1.1, but in the meantime, I find that I can delete the image by clicking edit and then clicking the X delete at the bottom of the image at the right-hand side. You could then upload your replacement. This is fine if you want to maintain the same or greater number of adverts, but no use should you want to reduce the number displayed (unless you duplicate the ones you want to display more frequently).
I’ll schedule a review of this, now that 1.1 is at final release; and upload an updated version shortly!
Hi! I installed the module but have a few problem:
a) How can I delete an advertisement?
b) It seems, as if I could not overwrite / delete the pictures properly. A new picture is not accepted and the old on reapears if I uploaded a new one.
Can you please help on this?
Update added 01/11/2008 which will hopefully fix it.
I’ve just tried it myself – I must confess, that since the code is the same for both I hadn’t up until now! I’m testing on the latest development release of PrestaShop, but it has a problem too…. I’ll need to have a proper look into why this is happening!
thanks for the module.I’m unable to change from the original right column to left column.each time when i change to the left column, the front shop unable to display correctly.
Thanks for the module. I am new to Prestashop and your mod looks more promising than the default one : )
The link would be the actual http link to the page you want the image to point to. The image is uploaded using the box below, just as you would add an image for a product (for example).
The idea is that you configure up a whole set of links (internal, or pointing to another site somewhere) and assign these to images that will be displayed randomly on your pages.
I hope this makes sense, if not then please get back, and I’m sure we’ll sort it out for you!
HI, I downloaded the Advert PrestaShop Module v1.0 and install it on my PrestaShop v1.0 final. The installation is fine. But I haven’t seen anything shown with the advert on the home page neither on left column nor right column.
I think I might have done something wrong. In the backoffice, when I setup the advert tab, I pasted the path of the image file of the ads in link box (like “C:wampwwwprestashopmodulesadvertsadvertising.jpg”). Actually, what is the link box supposed to be filled?
Can you give me a hint? if you require more details, please contact us on [email protected]
Thanks