MOD Display Adsense between links

[Michele]

Hi All,

I've seen on some other directories where they have the list of links in a category and then about mid-way down they have a Google Ad mixed in.

Has anyone here done that and are they willing to share how they did it?

mi

[WTM]

Are you saying Adsense was between listings???
...or between categories and listings?

I don't think first option is possible.

[Michele]

It was between the listings. It looked somewhat like another entry. Seems like it would be really effective.

I've seen others who have them between the featured listings and the regular ones, that would be good too.

I'll have to pay attention the next time I see it and include the URL here.

[Greg]

Hi Michele

Was this on a site using eSyndiCat?

[Michele]

Don't know what it was using.

Was thinking putting after featured would probably just require putting it in the if statement.

But the mid-results was way cooler.

[Chrisjara]

I looked at the code which displays links and it looks like it is using a foreach loop. You would somehow have to stop the loop, print the adsense code, then continue.

I don't know enough about Smarty or PHP to finish this - if only.

[Sai_dallas]

Before the start of the loop, start a counter variable.
And every time one link is displayed increment the counter.

for every say 5 links you add adsense code and reset the counter to 0
(I am not familiar with php or smarty - but this is very easy to do)


counter_variable = 0

for each
if counter_variable = 5 then
Adsense code
counter_variable =0 // Reset the counter
end if

Code to display links
counter_variable = counter_variable +1
next

[Michele]

With PhP and Smarty, do you have to declare variables anywhere first?

I've programmed with a bunch of languages, but neither of these.

[Vincent Wright]

Well,

open index.tpl and find this piece of code:

{foreach from=$links item=link}
    {include file="link-display.tpl"}
{/foreach}

This loop displays links.

Now you have to change it to something like this:

{foreach from=$links item=link name="links"}
    {include file="link-display.tpl"}
    
    {if $smarty.foreach.links.iteration eq 5}
    <tr><td>
    PUT CODE HERE THAT DISPLAYS GOOGLE ADS
    </td></tr>
    {/if}
    
{/foreach}

This snippet will insert whatever you put into <td></td> tags right below 5th link in your listings.

[Greg]

Nice Vincent