Does any one know fo a really good banner system PHP, CGI would be nice to be free but not a big deal.

Thanks

I've been playing around with a few of them. I got them all from www.hotscripts.com. You should give them a check.

Yea i am there now.. But theres so dang many i don't want to install them all just to find a good one with looks of good stuff in it.. Was hoping some one had found one maybe would let me in on the one they picked so i could check it out..

Just don't want to install 50 banner programs..LOL

I know what you mean. I downloaded and tried out about 10 of them last week looking for a banner script for a client's site. Basically, if it was free, I tried it. Unfortunately, I don't have anything to show you because after trying them out, the client decided to go another route for displaying ads.

Anyway, the reason I haven't recommended any particular one was that I really felt that many of them worked quite well, depending on the needs of the client. The site in question is pretty small and only needed a handful of banners in the rotation, so I had chosen one using a flat-file - No need to mess with mySQL. If you have a number of ads, you might want the db. Some of them even had built in admin panels & statistics - overkill for what I was looking for, but might be just perfect for you.

Sorry my earlier post wasn't more helpful.

try

http://www.cgi-resources.com
http://php.resourceindex.com

Good luck

I use http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpadsnew/ I really like it. It is a PHP script and it uses a MySQL database. It run really fast and it gives great stats.

Could you define your requirements better.

I've been searching for banner serving software and it took me 2 weeks too narrow it down.

here are some of the points that I might be able to help you with.

linux based

1) billing system built in
2) tracking
3) zone placement
4) how easy to install


I found that there is one software that could handle heavy traffic sites with billing built in, zones and just about everything.
Oasis. it can be found on souceforge. it's not easy and they are doing an update to it.

for something easy try adcycle, it has a small cost. plus you can get an installer for it (50.00)

for something shareware and just a very good rotator and zone serving try WebAdverts 3.10. it good for about 20,000 per hour on a shared system.


I myself would like to here more about an ad serving software that is like Dart but not with the high cost.

-Michael

Vortech,

If you are too lazy to install/setup

use ready made ad network, http://www.adbutler.com/

It works good and it is easy

I use them for one of my site

Hope it helps

I have been using phpAds ( you can find it at php.resourceindex.com ) and it works great for me.

Haze does phpAds work with html or does it need to go in a php file.. I have done the site in html so looking for one i can just slap some html code in to if i can does it do that?

If not is there one that some know that can do that.. I think they do it with jave or some thing not sure... ;)

Yeah you can run it from a remote location ( ie, html ), which i found was very very usefull. Here is the address just incase: http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpAds/

Try adcycle.com it's very fast if you install it in daemon mode.

I ended going with phpadsnew. It seems to work great. Thanks for the help guys..

adcycle uses a lot of resources for really high traffic sites

if you're gonna have adcycle deliver banners on each page of a forum, for example, and both the forum and adcycle are on the same server, look for some performance drops.

Well i have been using phpadsnew now but giving me some problems. Is there any other good ones out there now?

I had problems with all the free ad software out there.. So I wrote my own and its doing good for me.. but it doesnt have any admin panel just the backend.