What if you want to serve up your own banners (announcements), banners you sell and third-party banners?

In that case, could/should you use something like DFP?



Is this what you mean by hardcoding the modules...


<?php
// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
$view = JRequest::getVar("view", "item");
?>

<?php if($view == 'itemlist') : ?>

<!--Category List Banner Code Here-->

<?php else : ?>

<?php foreach ($items as $key=>$item): ?>

<!--Item Banner Code Here-->

<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Joe I setup a demo showing K2 as a banner manager. See reggae.websitedons.net/events

The 728x90 banner at the top are in rotation and randomly displayed by the K2 content module, more precisely, a revamped version of the module.

The Method
Create a text extra field for the banner URL - alias name exactly as topbanner
Create a radio extra field for new window or parent with options yes and no - alias exactly as newwin

Create a category and name it 728x90 banners
Set Item Image Options medium (or any other) to width 728
Set all options in all parameter tabs to hide (the module is handling display)

Add new items to the category with only the title and the Intro Image

The Module
As stated, we revamped the original K2 content module to do all kinds of stuff and just now added the banner display method so you can test. Get it at cmsenergizer.com/joomla-extensions/88-k2-content-module-revised Download the one with less download count. Its filename is mod_cmse_k2content-12-beta.zip I realized the title isn't showing because the display was modified.

Choose the category
Set Item Count to 1
Set Item Order to Random
Set Link Title to no
Set Image Size to Medium
Set Link Image to Ad Banner (this is the new addition for this demo)
Set Format to vertical-elements and clear the field below to just [image]
Assign to the position you want

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All the content at the demo site is displayed only with K2

@Joe Campbell

You can donwload Takai www.joomlaworks.net/joomla-templates/free-templates/takai to see how these variables are set up.

You should go with this method (in your index.php file):

You can combine it with the $id variable to render modules in specific K2 items only. The $option variable is used to limit the modules inside K2.

Kumar thanks for taking the time to modify your custom K2 Content Module.

What's your Twitter handle so I can follow you :)

Thanks @Krikor - what about tag pages?

Joe Campbell wrote: Kumar... What's your Twitter handle so I can follow you :)

Strangely I do not have a Twitter account but the boss does @websitedons. I am only at Facebook www.facebook.com/cmsenergizer

We were attempting to get another wish list capability to output items by tag with the k2 content module, but have not had any accuracy. Finally just moved the related items code block of the item view template, to the right column to get sort of a Youtube clone. videos.websitedons.net/

@Joe, change the $task to tag instead of category.

Thanks @Krikor :)

You 're welcome mate.