You know, this is in no way meant to be discouraging: However there is this thing called the "adwords editor" http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/index.html
It may provide you with all the functionality you need and no development cost/time. When you have enough profit/revenue to justify spending time and money on custom api stuff, there are many companies out there that, in theory, should provide greater services with less investment. There are some which specialize in just tech, and let you make all of the decisions for advertising. And there are some which you basically say, "go!", and they go and build campaigns for you, manage everything. Sometimes they work for CPC, sometimes for ROI goals. Sometimes for "number of new customers." And when you finally have enough revenue to justify in house solutions for you and your clients, it may be easier to hire a programmer. Perhaps it would be good to spend a bit of money on a senior tech guy at this point, going through the different possible solutions for problems, ranging from what language to use, to what really is possible with so and so amount of time/money. If you don't have a good birds eye view of tech, it may be really easy to find yourself with a programmer who does everything you want, but won't warn you (cause you are paying him) that what you want to do may be much easier done a different way. Best of luck, -tim On Dec 3, 10:04 am, Peter Stannett <[email protected]> wrote: > OK thanks I shall try that! > > On Nov 30, 6:26 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > If you are new to the API I wouldn't recommend you use the APIlity > > library. It has been deprecated, as has most of the v13 API it runs > > against. It has been replaced by the AdWords API PHP client library: > > > http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-php/ > > > Best, > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > On Nov 26, 11:43 am, Peter Stannett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi Everyone > > > > Basically I need lots of help. I have downloaded the apility zip and > > > uploaded the contents to my webhost under the public_html folder. > > > > The question I have now is..now what? I know what I want to achieve > > > but am very new to this so I would appreciate some guidance. I'm > > > already confused with some of the Apility documentation (i'm not thick > > > btw!) > > > > First off it says to edit authentication .ini "edit authentication.ini > > > and enter your data according to your API account settings"..then it > > > goes on to say do not put it in a web-readable area of your host..then > > > it says > > > > " The most secure way to make sure no one can steal your account login > > > data is to provide the login data directly. Therefore, after including > > > APIlity into your project file, set the authentication context > > > manually as shown below: > > > > include('apility'); > > > $apilityUser = new APIlityUser( > > > '[email protected]', > > > 'p455woRd', > > > '[email protected]', > > > 'D3v3Lop3rT0keN', > > > '4pPlicaTi0nTok3n'); > > > > This means leaving authentication.ini untouched. " > > > > So what am i supposed to do? Edit the ini file or not?! What does it > > > mean by "manually"? Every time I want to do something? It's not overly > > > transparent... > > > > And then within the apility folder the readme file says "Getting > > > started is easy, just check out the given example." > > > If I load any page it's blank! > > > > I have edited auth.ini with my details (but then surely that shouldn't > > > be in the same folder...see above note..should I be amending the ini > > > file or not?). > > > > I have amended setttings.ini to use the sandbox and i get error > > > messages left right and centre. i am sure I am missing something quite > > > simple but it's not overly clearly laid out for a noob. > > > > Any help would be very much appreciated! > > > > Regards > > > Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en.
