Hi,

What is the best PHP written admanagement system (script) available (preferably for free or cheap). I know I can look at HotScripts, but I prefer to hear it from someone who uses such a script.

Jacco

Sorry, I dont have a PHP one that I know of, but I used a Perl based one, called adcycle(www.adcycle.com). It also can be run as a deamon assuming you have root, and that can serve 500,000 ads a day. I used it as that, but served only a few thousand. It is not free(30 day trial) then I think its 50. You might at least give it a shot unless you hate perl.

phpAdsNew, is pretty neat, look for it on google.

... or search on sourceforge ;)

I looked into this about 3 months ago, but in the end, it was no longer required, so I never tried any. I did however narrow my choices down to two:

Open source Ad Serving and Inventory System (OASIS)
http://oasis.sourceforge.net/

phpAdsNew
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpadsnew/

Personally I think the first one (OASIS) looks great and if I require AD management in the future I'd deffinately take a propper look at it.

I've been using PhPAdsNew for a few months. Generally speaking I think it's excellent, though some of the older releases had a few bugs the latest development release seems fairly solid.
The only thing against it might be that it is TOO powerful. The wealth of features might be seen as overkill if you only want to rotate a few affiliate banners, but if you are selling advertising from third-parties it's fairly unbeatable and the price is right :D

I use phpAdsNew myself and it is extremely powerful and has so many features. Though I don't like the idea of it opening so many connections to MySQL.