SD, another error

make sure there is no SPACE after the EOF; or the <<<EOF lines..

heredoc format is picky that way.. Read their warning in red down the page

i have the code i just posted above you running on my site, so it's gotta be something obscure like that..

SD, it was a space at the end of EOF;

Next problem, the banners do not rotate?

well... you have the custom island is built every xx minutes.. that is when it will randomize..

for test.. have it always build and see if it changes..

as for rotation... if you mean you want the banners to sit there and rotate between the 3 every say 30secs.. that's a javascript dealio and is possible

I have had problems with some not all rotating banner scripts in Islands.
Where they will rotate on the island cache or rotate on the own setting. But only one time. Unless you refresh the browser.
Then it will only make one pass again.
Never figured out why.

BTW, The note on the cache time for a island suggests 0 for banner ad's but it never made a difference in my situation.

i'd suggest really making the Client browser do the rotation with javascript..

it's really simple and then you only build the island ONE time.. less server resources.

i might slap a quickie tutorial together on it

I had a PHP/MySQL script that would never want to rebuild every time when things were set to zero that was linked to an affiliate app.

I was looking at doing something similar with rotating pictures and came across this jQuery plugin.

http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/

For a good implementation of it go to arstechnica.com and look at the right for the their featured articles box.

I am looking to put up banner adds between threads 1 and 2 and it would rotate every time they click, how do i do that in islands

I guess it depends on what type of banner you wish to use.
For something like google ads just place the script between the eof tags.

So I guess the real question is what banner script are you contemplating on using.

what is easiest ? i was told java script, where do i put the banners in on the server.