Paypal Finance Banner

General General Questions
1

I am trying to create a banner for PayPal Finance Promotion

The code they gave is supposed to be HTML- It is supposed to be in a block 160X600

On the page it comes up as text same as code and not like html.

PlayPal tech thinks the problem is something to do with Javascript.

I tried HTML blocks and text banners but nothing works.

does anyone have an idea what the problem is?

thank you

2

Did you use the block manager to create the block? Or how have you deployed the code?

The symptoms you are describing are that it's being put into a Smarty variable and then that variable is being displayed without the 'nofilter' modifier. I.e. the variable syntax should be:

{$my_variable nofilter}

versus

{$my_variable}
3

Did you try HTML block with SMARTY support, where WYSIWYG is not used?

4

EZ I was careful to avoid the blocks that contained smarty support. I used the Banners Block and the "any HTML content" block and each time created a new block to work with.

Are you suggesting that I have to change something in the cart/block settings or something in the PayPal code has to change?

ecom- I just tried the html with smarty support and got this

Syntax error in template "264270203fa23c3ee031facb3cb6839260d6dbe8" on line 2 "(function (d, t) {"use strict";var s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0], n = d.createElement(t);n.src = "//www.paypalobjects.com/upstream/bizcomponents/js/merchant.js";s.parentNode.insertBefore(n, s);}(document, "script"));" - Unexpected ";", expected one of: "}"

Banner block also tried same result.png

block with HTML content -no smarty.png

Content of Block -paypal c0de.png

HTML block used general view.png

PP banner reults.png

5

As ecom said, you need to be using an html block with smarty support otherwise the tags will be escaped as html entities.

To prevent the errors, wrap your code in literal tags like:

{literal}
  
{/literal}

For simplicity think about it as if you have '{' and '}' on the same line, then it assumes that what's between them is a Smarty variable.

You could also alter the script text to have it read like:

whch puts the '{' and '}' on separate lines.

6

I have tried EZ's code -no results. I then added no results.

I changed to a black background PayPal code and then I got an error code that I can't figure out -but at least I have something.

Can you tell me what the error code tells me to do?

The PP code is

The error code is
Syntax error in template "3e4e8b68a1b25a407a60ad385b2d78a15b7db720" on line 2 "(function (d, t) {"use strict";var s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0], n = d.createElement(t);n.src = "//www.paypalobjects.com/upstream/bizcomponents/js/merchant.js";s.parentNode.insertBefore(n, s);}(document, "script"));" - Unexpected ";", expected one of: "}"
I tried changing wrappers, doesn't help.
I can't believe that PayPal would create such a difficult code. I had one of their technicians on the line for an hour and he couldn't help me. He says that he tried it on his end and it worked.
There must be someone else out there that uses PayPal and their banner. Am I the only one with the problem?
7

It is a smarty error and will not happen if you either user 'literal' tags or you break the code down so that '{' an '}' don't appear on the same lines. It has nothing to do with paypal.

Any time you see the phrase "error in template" in an error message, that is a smarty error and not related to the code itself.

8

You should add data-no-defer parameter to the script. Please use HTML block with SMARTY support and the following code.

{literal}

{/literal}

Tested on the demo

http://prntscr.com/jhjqp6

9

eCom- Thank you again-it works.

10

You are welcome!