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Let me preface this by saying that I couldn't write a line of code to save my life. :)

I'm using an online banner ad provider and they gave me this line of code to insert onto my page to display the banner ad:

<?php if(function_exists('oiopub_banner_zone')) oiopub_banner_zone(1,
'center'); ?>

So after searching this forum I saw over and over to read the Wiki for the API Hooks so I did that. And I read about 10 various threads. And I read about don't use "Echo" use "Return." The problem is I don't know what that means…see above reference to not knowing how to code… :)

But I'm giving it the old college try, and I tried editing the sf-hook-template.txt file and saving it as a php file. Here's the hook I edited:

function sf_hook_post_content()
    {
        return '<?php if(function_exists('oiopub_banner_zone')) oiopub_banner_zone(1, 'center'); ?>';
    }

See? I tried! But it's not working. I'm getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/ispwpcom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/forum/hooks/sf-hook-template.php
on line 68

And of course line 68 is the line I edited.

What am I doing wrong?

Hmmm… Well the good news is that it's not giving error messages anymore and the forum is displaying properly.

The bad news is that the banner ad isn't displaying.

They do provide a javascript code snippet as a substitute:

<script type='text/javascript'
src='http://www.ispwp.com/oiopub/js…..pt&gt;

But I tried sticking that in the php file in a number of different ways and can't get that to work either.

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but this is all I could find regarding the instructions.

To integrate OIOpublisher with a 3rd party website:

(1) PHP Integration Code:
If you want to integrate OIOpublisher into an existing website, you'll need to add a line of php code to your site. You'll then be able to use the php output functions to show ads (otherwise, you'll need to use javascript)
<?php include_once('/home/ispwpcom/public_html/oiopub/index.php'); ?>

(2) Theme Hooks PHP Code:
To complete php integration with your website, you can add header and footer hooks code to your site. This will save you having to make manual code edits to your website template files in the future.
<?php if(function_exists('oiopub_header')) oiopub_header(); ?>
put this above the </head> tag
<?php if(function_exists('oiopub_footer')) oiopub_footer(); ?>
put this above the </body> tag

To display banner ad code on your website:

(1) Using Javascript:
Place this javascript code on any website you want to display ads on. Remember to replace 'X' with the zone number you want to show.
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.ispwp.com/oiopub/js…..pt&gt;

(2) Using PHP:
You must have completed the 3rd party website integration steps to use php output code.
<?php if(function_exists('oiopub_banner_zone')) oiopub_banner_zone(1, 'center'); ?>

I'm trying to post an affiliate banner on my forum. Like many others, I have gone to the wiki to read about hooks and how to use them, but I'm apparently missing something.

Here is the affiliate code:

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=284156&u=212812&m=30819&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/30819/180x150_03.jpg"  border="0"></a>

Let's say I want to use the sf_hook_pre_content()

Would it look like this?

function sf_hook_pre_content()
    {
        return '<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=284156&u=212812&m=30819&urllink=&afftrack="><img
src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/30819/180x150_03.jpg" 
border="0"></a>';
    }

After entering that, I uploaded the modified .txt file to the server and renamed sf-hook-template.txt to a .php file. Nothing happened on my forum. As far as I could tell, nothing was different. What am I missing?