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[jeff819]

I am trying to use this banner rotating script on my homepage, but I get a smarty error when inserting it into welcome.tpl. I haven't changed the images/links in the code because I just want to get it functioning first...

Can someone tell me what might be causing the smarty error in the following code?

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
// original content taken from Nic's JavaScript Page with permission
// lack of these three lines will result in copyright infringment
// made by: Nic's JavaScript Page - http://www.javascript-page.com

var currentdate = 0;
var core = 0;

function initArray() {

this.length = initArray.arguments.length;
  for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
  this[i] = initArray.arguments[i];
  }
}

link = new initArray(
"http://3bgraphics.hypermart.net/",
"http://html.digitalsea.net/",
"http://www.javascript-page.com/"
);

image = new initArray(
"http://3bgraphics.hypermart.net/link/3bgraphics.gif",
"http://html.digitalsea.net/htmlnow.gif",
"http://www.geocities.com/~jsmaster/jsnow.gif"
);

text = new initArray(
"3B Graphics",
"Learn HTML in 7 Easy Steps",
"Nic's JavaScript Page"
);

var currentdate = new Date();
var core = currentdate.getSeconds() % image.length;
var ranlink  = link[core];
var ranimage = image[core];
var rantext  = text[core];

document.write('<a href=\"' +ranlink+ '\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"'+ranimage+'\" border="0" alt=\"'+rantext+'\"></a>');

//-->
</SCRIPT>

Thanks,
Jeff

[Jon]

Insert literal tags around the code like so:

{literal}
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
// original content taken from Nic's JavaScript Page with permission
// lack of these three lines will result in copyright infringment
// made by: Nic's JavaScript Page - http://www.javascript-page.com

var currentdate = 0;
var core = 0;

function initArray() {

this.length = initArray.arguments.length;
  for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
  this[i] = initArray.arguments[i];
  }
}

link = new initArray(
"http://3bgraphics.hypermart.net/",
"http://html.digitalsea.net/",
"http://www.javascript-page.com/"
);

image = new initArray(
"http://3bgraphics.hypermart.net/link/3bgraphics.gif",
"http://html.digitalsea.net/htmlnow.gif",
"http://www.geocities.com/~jsmaster/jsnow.gif"
);

text = new initArray(
"3B Graphics",
"Learn HTML in 7 Easy Steps",
"Nic's JavaScript Page"
);

var currentdate = new Date();
var core = currentdate.getSeconds() % image.length;
var ranlink  = link[core];
var ranimage = image[core];
var rantext  = text[core];

document.write('<a href=\"' +ranlink+ '\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"'+ranimage+'\" border="0" alt=\"'+rantext+'\"></a>');

//-->
</SCRIPT>
{/literal}

[jeff819]

Thanks Jon...that worked perfectly!

So are these {literal} tags necessary for any Javascript code?

Jeff

[Jon]

Javascript code often has tags such as brackets which smarty will try to interpret as smarty code, the literal tags says to take it literally and not parse it. In short, javascript doesn't always need the literal tags, but most often does.