On 4/26/05, Jason Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Peters wrote: > > Joel Gwynn wrote: > > > > > So the ads are inserted via javascript and not interpreted php? What > > > are the non-javascript options, just out of curiousity. > > > > It really shouldn't be that hard to write a one mode C::A that would > > randomly pick an ad and send it to the browser. If you use mod_rewrite > > (or mod_perl) you can even make anyone looking at the source think it's > > just a normal jpg. > > It gets a little more complicated than that. I use phpAdsNew, too and I > love it's management, where you can assign start/end dates, "zones", > weights, max # of impressions or click-throughs, etc.
I've commented similarly already. A proper ad management tool maintains an enormous amount of information and offers much more than simple rotation of banners. > But yeah, the tradeoff being when you're working in HTML::Template, > you'll have to invoke it in JavaScript or using the img src="...php?..." > trick. And then you can only have ONE ad per page (otherwise, the > click-through doesn't work properly -- maybe they fixed it). They have; we have had up to three ads on a page coexisting peacefully. (I managed to get our marketers to whittle down to one recently, though!) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weierophinney.net/matthew/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
