I wanted captions for each "ad" under the ad icon. I'm not actually using it for ads but as a button-based web site navigation. Looking at the code I found it was a bit messy so I recoded it. Attached are the new files. You'll find it much easier to add new features now in minutes rather than hours.
The following code should work faster and it does hit Joomla cacheing now so speeding up bigger sites.

Just to be clear my code is the same licence as the existing code i.e. LGPL and I'm happy if the core code is changed to LGPLv3 or even relicensed as GPLv3. Lincoln Phipps.

As an update - I have also added a few other things which I needed like being able to do like sort on a priority for the ad display, or sort by caption and a random display. Have sent details to developer.

As another update I have added a validity range with an end date and an (optional) start date. The patch is with the developer. I've kind of run out of things I can change with this module now - it pretty much does what I what it to do !.

A copy of what I am currently testing. This has all the new features including validity dates. The valid date field is either an end date or an end date and a start date separated by a semi-colon e.g.
2009-10-22 17:00:00;2009-09-22 09:00:00
means to run the ad from 22nd September 9am to the 22nd October 5pm. If you just provided 2009-10-22 17:00:00 then it would mean (from now on but) end on 22nd October at 5pm. The date can be in any format that strtotime() accepts including relative dates. A relative start date is relative to now and the relative end date is relative to the start date. So if you do use relative then at least 1 date MUST be a fixed date else it will make no sense as both will end up being relative to now and now changes to a new time everytime the module runs. Lincoln.