Displaying an advert before the article.

registered · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:27 am

Greets:

I'm in the process of rolling out a new PHPNuke site and, due to the client's request, I'm trying to put in an advert page before an article displays.

I'm been looking at the News/article.pgp script and I can see where I could just make a call before hand to display this special page by using an extra include and then a call to a fuction that would display this special page. After a bit (Say ten seconds or if the visitor clicks on a 'skip' link.), we would continue to the article. What i can't figure out is how to tell PHP to continue with the rest article.php script. Does that make sense?

I thought about passing to the ad displaying script the actual URL for the article but that would just put me into a loop as the ad displaying code would be called first.

Is there a way or method to stop PHP and then tell it to continue on after the 10 seconds or when the visitor clicks on the 'skip' link?

Thanks,
-drmike

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:23 am

Couple of things.
1 I really think it would be easier for updates ect... to do this in the theme.
2 Your can use
Header("Refresh: 0; url=
or use something like this
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" content=\"2;URL=modules.php?name=$redirect\">";

I don't know if your client specifically requested a full page ad but I think a gentle insertion would be a lot easier to manage and less invasive to the users. I guess if something is being rolled out like a forced click system the intermittent page would be a simple solution.