ad software

[werehere]

I am currently running webadverts because of good integration with the UBB, however I am wanting to run a good PHP script to maintain ads now. What is out there that people have tested and like. I do need the full admin abilities that you would typically find and have to have a client login area for all accounts so they can check real time stats.

If you know of any tried and tested ones, then please let me know.

[Brian]

You might look @ : http://phpwizard.net/phpAds/

[wandrer]

We have both webadverts and phpads running on a few sites. Of the two, webadverts is more polished. It has the ability to 'weight' ads over other ads that PhpAds doesn't have.

If you are showing straight ads (1-1 ratio) then Phpads is great. If you want some ads to be shown 25% of their exposures, while others are being shown 10% of their exposures, etc..etc..etc..then webadverts is for you. The current latest version of webadverts is very good.

In my testing of it - a while ago - I was able to achieve 2.7 ads shown per second. While that may not be up to the level of Phpads (which by using PHP and mysql could probably get 10 ads shown per second), it is good enough for my sites.

Phpads has many things going for it, but in my opinion, it just isn't as polished as webadverts.

[Brian]

I think they have weighting in the CVS version, and you could always add a banner numerous times to "weight" it more..

-Brian

[werehere]

Webadverts has the nice features, however my site does recieve enough traffic that it weights it down quite a bit with those running, and I do have phpads, but did not find it to have everything I wanted.

Even if it is not a free script, commercial is fine. Can anybody recommend any others? Thanks for the answers so far:)

[wandrer]

In my opinion, for commercial, you have two options:

http://centralad.com/

http://www.thruport.com/adjuggler/

Anyone know of any others ?

[Martin]

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Ad_Management/

I was looking for the same thing. We are using CentralAd right now, but I want something else that will allow me to use the full ad code from our different services so the stats track more accurately.

I was hoping to find something that would totally avoid the use of an iFrame tag.

any ideas on this?

[werehere]

Yeah hotscripts is one of my favorite script sites, but I still have not found what I was looking for. Good idea though:)

[Martin]

hey, are you still using the same JavaScript I modified from your site to run the ads on this proggie?

[werehere]

Yup, same one as before. I find it works fine, but it could be better than it is now if it was not running webadverts. It works fine, but it is server intensive, and now with this board there is more possibilities to work with.

[werehere]

Well I think I found a winner:)

http://www.adcycle.com/

It runs mod_perl with MySQL (so you need DBI), and it has a wonderful, professional graphic interface, full options far beyond webadverts, PHPAds or even CentralAd, and it is free.

It automatically generates full rich media for you from your imput. And I mean full featured as you can get (at least as much as I have ever seen offered).

Installed in about 2min.;)

[shri]

Hi,

I downloaded adcycle a week ago and am looking at it.

However, my problem is that its too specific to adverts for me to use it do what I want.

With phpAds, I can generate ANY html dynamically and target it. For example I use phpAds to generate random polls from a database since it has the ability to spit out HTML from a group.

I am pretty close to having it work with vB... waiting on John to answer a couple of questions.

Shri

[werehere]

There is a new PHPAds as of today, however it just is not enough to suit my needs *yet*, maybe the next version. This one is very good however:)

[Martin]

can you pull the perl using SSI calls into PHP without crahsing the pages? That's one of the reasons I'm considering getting rid of centralad...

[shri]

Martin,

Funny you should mention this. I took a smoke break and this thought occured to me about 10 minutes ago.

I tried to add

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .php

to my httpd.conf and i've messed it up a little bit...

Looking at it as we speak. I know I was able to add .cgi as server parsed when I needed to include SSI calls into ubb.


---

Ok, poked around a little bit and I think you can only have one handler for a certain type of page. So either it does SSI or it does PHP.

BUT, I did find a function called "virtual()" under PHP as an apache specific function which allows you to simulate a

<!--#include virtual="file.pl" -->

type call.

This will not work unless the header template parsing issue is resolved... (I've also got another post on here asking for all templates with the possible exception of postbit to be allowed the eval function).

[Edited by shri on 05-04-2000 at 12:23 AM]

[WebStyles]

can you pull the perl using SSI calls into PHP without crahsing the pages? That's one of the reasons I'm considering getting rid of centralad...

Look up the passthru() function at php.net (http://www.php.net). :)

[werehere]

So either it does SSI or it does PHP.


Yes this is true, inless someone has found a new inventive way around it:)

[werehere]

HAHA, and maybe the inventive girl is my girlfriend who posted right above me.

How does she always do that?:D


Maybe we should talk more over dinner?:)

[Edited by werehere on 05-04-2000 at 12:28 AM]

[Martin]

so, if I'm reading that right, I could do something like:

passthru(/adserver/ssrand.cgi,0)

and have it pull from a perl proggie?

[Martin]

Originally posted by shri
BUT, I did find a function called "virtual()" under PHP as an apache specific function which allows you to simulate a

<!--#include virtual="file.pl" -->

type call.
[Edited by shri on 05-04-2000 at 12:23 AM]

I definitely appreciate the effort, but if it's Apache specific I can't use it since I usee IIS. (at least I will be once I work up the nads to try and install PHP;))

[WebStyles]

so, if I'm reading that right, I could do something like:

passthru(/adserver/ssrand.cgi,0)

and have it pull from a perl proggie?

I believe so... I've seen people make "wrappers" in PHP that execute perl scripts, so I assume it would work for you... Now, if we could only do it the other way around! ;)

[Martin]

well, when I work up the nuts to risk shutting down my server, I'll let ya know if it works :)

[wandrer]

I am currently running webadverts because of good integration with the UBB, however I am wanting to run a good PHP script to maintain ads now. What is out there that people have tested and like. I do need the full admin abilities that you would typically find and have to have a client login area for all accounts so they can check real time stats.

I just finished a program that I have been working on for a few months. PHP/mySQL built, tested, and runs great. It works great with vBulletin.

http://www.dot-banner.com

[eva2000]

yay something for vb ... bookmarked and ready to download :D