Need help with a variable...

[gspawn]

Hi,

I'm a relative newbie to the PHP scene, and I'm trying to design a site that is using a link indexing script that I downloaded. Now, the site also makes use of a ad banner script, and here is where I'm having problems. The banner script is also in PHP and it gets called from the HTML tag with the following code:

<?
require('/phpLedAds/ad_class.php');
echo $pla_class->adcode( );
?>

Herein lies the problem. When I adapted my layout to the template file for the script, in this instance named template_index.php, when the page loads, the ads do not display. I remember reading somewhere a while ago that I would need to place this code in a variable and call the variable from the template, but I have no idea how to set this up. Can someone help me? I can either post or email the template file and whatever other files you guys might need to take a look at. Thanks!

[NogDog]

Assuming that ad_class.php is only a class definition, you would need to instantiate it as an object before calling its methods:

<?
require('/phpLedAds/ad_class.php');
$pla_class = new XXXXXX();
echo $pla_class->adcode( );
?>

Where "XXXXX" is the name of the class defined in ad_class.php (possibly "ad_class"?). However, it's possible ad_class.php instantiates itself, so I may be wrong. Ultimately, I suppose we would need to see the ad_class.php file to know what's going on.