Randomly Displayed Adverts and Callouts

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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

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43 Responses to “Randomly Displayed Adverts and Callouts”

  • michelle says:

    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?… =(

  • michelle says:

    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?…

  • fab4 says:

    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

    • admin says:

      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.

  • michelle says:

    Hi, i finally did it! yes! thank you very much! I love it! =D

  • fab4_33 says:

    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

  • admin says:

    Are you using 1.2.0.8 or 1.2.1.0?

  • dulux says:

    both,
    1.2.0.8 dont work?????
    1.2.0.1 seems work

    • admin says:

      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.

  • mephvio says:

    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

    • admin says:

      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.

  • Darial says:

    Just wondering how I can change so that I can post .gif and .swf files also.

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