Hi,
From what I have read here, the Web Adverts program is very processor intensive. I also read here about BannerMaster, but the program seems to be unavailable. The iweb site says it is in beta, but it seems to have been in neta since last June or so...

What I am wondering is whether there are banner rotation scripts that will integrate well with Links and not hog processor useage?

Thanks,
-V

Advertisement scripts are a pain to write. I am currently trying to mod existing ones and they all seem to be badly coded

I have started my own one, but cannot get it to be of much use yet, infact at the moment it just prints an error 500 - But hopefully I can get the damn thing finished soon.

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Michael Bray
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adcycle uses the weirdest cookies too..

i don't beleive it works with SSI.. but still.. have you noticed when you open one window first.. and then you get some banner.. then you open another window and you get another banner.. go back to the first window and click.. you should go to the second banners destination..

that is why cookies suck..

jerry

all ad scripts take either space or bandwidth..

adcycle from adcycle.com takes TOOO MUCH space..

heh.. i think i'm gonna end up making an ad script for myself.. of course it will use MySQL.. i already started a little bit..

http://www.pdamania.com/ad.html

then there is the same script running non ssi.. but the cookies don't work that good right now..

it has no features as of now.. but what i'm aiming at is less bandwidth and less space..

jerry

I find adcycle to be very effective and easy to use, although I don't know about the space issue. How do you determine how much space is being used in a mySQL database?

There's a banner program at http://www.htmlwizard.net/phpAds/ which shows promise. It's written in PHP and uses MySQL.

Easy to set up. Haven't really tried using it, nor incorporating into Links.

Worth looking at though.

--mark

I don't seem to have that problem. I did exactly what you mentioned and each time it took me to the right place. Maybe thats because I put my banner within a javascript code that creates a random number to insure that I get a fresh banner each time.

Hi V Silly,

I've been using the bannermaster program for a while on 2 of my sites. The problem is that after a couple of thousand displays (+-10000) logging of the clicks/displays gets a big problem and it can take up to 2 minutes!! to have the script redirect a 'clickee' to the right URL... I'm installing WebAdverts now.

Best regards,

anr... now i know what that number is for! DOH!

ok.. then this should be easier than i thought..

jerry

Hi folks,
Thanks for the suggestions. Ad Cycle and Php Ads both look interesting.
:-)
Regards,
-V

Hey, I simply use this:


'ads.dat' file:


hehe
Too simple?

Regards,
Pasha


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Hi Pasha,
Looking over your code, but where does it get placed in the links script in order to work? How do you install it?

I assume this is a very basic script to place the banners, but if you are using an ad service that handles all the tracking for you, is this really all you need?

Thanks,
-V

I found an alternative for it:

http://www.samuel.cz/~nadvert/

It also uses Groups,Zones ect, and its really quick.
Versions for Linux and Win9x/NT are online

The "Try-out" Version runs for 1 Year, enough time to test ist out ;-)

Take a look at it

Bye
Micha

To: V Silly

You've probably resolved your banner issues by now, but at long last Bannermaster 4 IS available.

I just installed and beta tested it. There are many bugs which it looks like they are diligently working out and I am confident it will be a good program by the end of this month (feb)...

However, there is one drawback! They have removed the banner exchange feature. There is still some left over coding to acomodate it but the developer seems to feel that he does not wish to pursue the exchange much.

This is why I then began setting up webadverts' newest version. I was looking through this forum to see if there are suggestions on how to integrate it with links2 using SSI.

There seems to be a few threads but as some others have mentioned all the info seems fragmented.

If there is a sumarized thread that ANYONE can point me to, I'd appreciate it.

Hint, hint.... Elliot!

By the way, Elliot, thanks for all the new stuff you've submitted recently!

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BruceS

I recommend you to use phpAds... I'm using it... it's very good.. better than Webadverts..



GIRUS

The new version of Adcycle just came out this week and has been working great for me.... 20k + banners a day without any noticable load effect...

 
You're welcome...Enjoy it while you can! These are the last Mods I am publicly submitting. I am finished writing new Mods.

About your Banner problem, there are plenty of Threads in this forum that discuss WebAdverts...I am not aware that they have a new version released...I will have to check it out.

The only suggestion I have is to search this forum for zones, which relates to WebAdverts.

Regards,

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Girus,

The phpAds does look promising. I don't see any reference to whether it will work with an NT server though. Do you know anything about that? Also, can you make any suggestions as far as any problems you ran into?

Thanks,

Kurt

If you have PHP3 installed in the NT, yes, it will work.

For more information on PHP technology, go to the following web site:

www.php.net


AND


AND


All quotations found in the following web page:

http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3

Regards,

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Anthro TECH,L.L.C
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