Functionalities

  1. Login Page

    Any access to the Banner Administration System is made only after the user authentication. The user gains the access to the system only after he provides an User Name and a Password. If the correct User Name and the Password are provided, the user is redirected to the Main Menu.

    Warning:

    After installation a default user is created with the User Name "admin" and the password "admin". It is highly recommended that after the first login that you change the Password for the user "admin" to prevent unauthorised access to the system.

  2. Main Menu

    The page contains the links to all the functionalities of the Banner Administration System for handling:

    • Restrictions

    • Banners

      - Pages

      - Banner Types

      - Clients

      - Users

      - Logout

  3. Main Menu Links

    • Logout

      Automatically logs out the user and redirects the browser to the Login Page

    • Users

      10 records per list page. All the fields are mandatory

      When changing the password make sure you entered the correct Old Password and that the Password and the Password (RE) fields have the same values (verification of the password).

      Warning:

      After you created a new user, change its password, The user is assigned an empty password, so Old Password fields will be an empty password.

    • Clients

      10 records per list page. The "Client" field is mandatory

    • Banner Types

      10 records per list page. All the fields are mandatory. The fields "Width" and "Height" are numeric fields

    • Pages

      Master-Detail form (Pages is the master table, Positions is the slave table). 5 records per list pages. The Positions list is ordered by Position. All fields are mandatory. The "Position" fields is numeric. In Detail->Edit for Positions you can only modify the Position field.

      Warning:

      When you create a page specify the complete URL !

      Ex: "http://www.interakt.ro/banners/" is correct, but "www.interakt.ro/banners/" will not work !

    • Banners

      10 records per list page. The list is ordered by ID Banner.

      Detail description:

      • The list contains the files uploaded for the specified banner plus a preview of the banner.

      • The main file used to describe the banner will appear checked.

      • To change the main file click the image in the column "Main File" for the desired file.

      • To delete/edit a file click the "Delete"/"Edit" button for the corresponding file.

      • To add a file click on the "Add File" button". In the new form click the "Browse" button, select a file, then click the "Add File" button again.

      • To delete the banner click on the "Delete Banner" button.

      • To complete editing the banner click on the "Done" button".

      New description:

      Select first the type of banner you want to insert:

      • HTML

      • Select the Banner Type and the Client

      • Edit the banner like in Detail

      • Image (jpg, gif, etc..)

      • Select the Banner Type, the Client, select the Image, enter a Link to use on the Image (All fields are required). Warning

        Warning:

        The Link must be a complete URL.

        Ex: "http://www.interakt.ro" is correct, but "http://www.interakt.ro/" and "www.interakt.ro" are incorrect and will not work properly

      • SWF

      • SWF

      • Select the Banner Type, the Client, select the SWF file (All fields are required).

      Remarks:

      When inserting a HTML banner in a web page, make sure that you specify the ID of the banner as well as the URL required for redirection, as shown below in the example:

      Example 1. File: index.htm (Main File)

      <html>
      <body>
      <a href="http://ducu.iakt.ro/banners/redirect.php?id_ban=8&"URL"=http://www.interakt.ro" target="_blank">
      <img src="banner.gif" width="100" height="60" border="0" target="_top">
      </a>
      </body>
      </html>
             

      File: banner.gif (an image file)

      Notice that the link is NOT MADE directly. The redirection MUST be made in the redirect.php, as this file also keeps count of the number of hits on this banner. The page redirect.php must receive as parameter the ID of the banner and the URL for redirection.

      All banners are actually HTML banners. The Insert IMAGE and Insert SWF Banner are just some "wizards" that help you generate a HTML banner from an image of a .swf file. The Banner Administration Module will generate, from the image you've uploaded and from the link you've entered, a HTML banner.

      If you have inserted an IMAGE banner, and you want afterwards to edit it, just go in Banners->Detail and click edit on the "Edit" column of the file "index.htm". And edit window will open, and you can modify the banner as if it were a HTML banner. That is, you can change the URL and the target of the link, you can add or remove things is the HTML banner.

      For more info, check out the examples in the /doc/examples directory

    • Restrictions

      10 records per list page. All fields are required.

      To create a new restriction, click on the "New" Button. Select the Page where you want to put your Banner, then click "New" again. Select the Position where you want the Banner to be displayed. Remember, the Position must be inserted in the Page/Positions form before it appears in this form. Then click "New" again. Select the Banner and the no. of times you want the banner to appear on that position. Remember also that that Position on the Page has a Type (a Height and a Width). For this reason you can only select Banner of the same Type with the Position on that Page, so make sure you have a Banner of that Type. To finish creating your restriction click on the "Add" button, and the new restriction will be created. You can abandon creating the Restriction at any time by clicking on the "Cancel" button.