I just installed PHPAdsNew (http://www.phpadsnew.com) on one of my sites. For those of you who are not familiar with it, it is an open source ad server script.

All I can say is WOW. It is soooo incredibly powerful, versatile, customizable, easy to install/configure and very feature rich.

Needless to say, I will be clicking on the optional Paypal button on their site to make my voluntary donation to their efforts.

:gthumb:

Vito

Agreed - and it's very stable also, never had a single problem...

I contributed too, the developer did good work.

Since you are familiar with how the script works, perhaps I can pick your brain - I'm having a small problem.

I want to display (5) 120x60 paid ads on a page - each banner is for a different advertiser. And I want them to rotate positions on refresh. I have created a zone and invoked code for each of them, and placed it on the page. The result is that I see 5 ads, but they don't always show all 5 advertisers. Each spot seems to randomly rotate, so I will end up with duplication of a couple of the ads, while other advertisers are not showing at all.

I basically want ALL 5 to display ALWAYS. Any clue what I should do to fix?

Vito

Sorry, never tried that :(

Thanks anyways, Walter. I'm sure it is possible, I just have to figure it out.

Vito

It's been a while since i've used this but I think there is an option to only allow an advertiser to be on any page once.

Yes there is. But that's not what I'm looking for. If I have 5 advertisers and I have 5 ad spots, if a visitor refreshes the page, I don't want the ads to suddenly disappear. I just want them to rotate their position.

The perfect example of what I am looking for is at the bottom of the page at www.wh-r.com . There are 8 sponsor logos. They ALL display every time you refresh. The only difference is position.

Vito

Would need to setup zones or something similar, and restrict certain slots to certain zones.

It seems I will have to create 5 separate zones and link a different banner to each. Seems the only way I can do it. However, that will not allow me to rotate the banners. I'll have to settle with each banner having its own fixed position.

Vito

Vito

If you are running the maintenance scripts from cron and weight the banners equally they should rotate smoothly. The weighting and distribution will "kick in" once it has enough historical data, so it might seem slightly uneven initially. In essence it will distribute the ads evenly in a 24 hour period, which is what you want.

HTH

Originally posted by blacknight
Vito

If you are running the maintenance scripts from cron and weight the banners equally they should rotate smoothly. The weighting and distribution will "kick in" once it has enough historical data, so it might seem slightly uneven initially. In essence it will distribute the ads evenly in a 24 hour period, which is what you want.

HTH Thanks, blacknight. I understand your point about historical data, but I'm not sure that sits right with me. It is to suggest that I have to live with uneven banner distribution for x number of hours until historical data kicks in and controls the banner exposure. I'm not thrilled with that option, to tell you the truth. Seems quite inexact (not to mention unfair to the advertisers for x number of hours).

I'm inclined to stay with my decision to simply create 5 zones, and link one banner to each zone.

Vito