[Mike-N-Tosh]

RE: Maffo,

Yes, I have heard great things about your mod for banners and I'm sure that works quite well. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me running the PHPAdsnew. That's because I use the PHPAdsnew solution to send several sites.
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RE: Lhotch,

I'm trying to use forward thinking and be optimistic. One would hope over time that you would get MOST catgories sponsered with ads.

Therefore, having the JS code in separate files seems to make the most sense. In my case, I would like to have "default top banner ad (468 X60)" and two "default side banner ads (120-160 X 120-600)". In both of those types of ads, I would also like to offer a sponser category ad. Does that make sense?

-Mike
IndianaPC.org

[Mike-N-Tosh]

dawnrae,

You always post the greatest threads!

Thanks from a fellow Longhorns fan! Hook 'em Horns

-Mike

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

I'm trying to use forward thinking and be optimistic. One would hope over time that you would get MOST catgories sponsered with ads.

Therefore, having the JS code in separate files seems to make the most sense. In my case, I would like to have "default top banner ad (468 X60)" and two "default side banner ads (120-160 X 120-600)". In both of those types of ads, I would also like to offer a sponser category ad. Does that make sense?

-Mike

I would probably create a plugin then that takes the category as an argument, determines which JS invocation code to display based on category passed to and and displays appropriate invocation code.

[gregbatch]

I used AdsNew for a long time before getting 68, however, I found Adsnew (now openads) to be a real pain to try to use in 68. No fault of 68, though. Doing what should be a simple task, was not with AdsNew. I switched to AdPeeps and it was so easy.

Just create banner zones that match your category IDs. Example: top-123 or (you can serve multiple websites, too) site1-top-123. Then put the Smarty call in your AdPeeps code:

<!-- START all AdPeeps.com Code -->
<p align="center">
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript" SRC="http://www.yourdomain.com/bannerdir/adpeeps.php?bfunction=showad&uid=100000&bmode=off&bzone=site1-top-{$smarty.get.type}&bsize=all&btype=3&bpos=default&ver=2.0&btotal=1&btarget=_blank&bborder=0">
</SCRIPT>
<NOSCRIPT>
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/bannerdir/adpeeps.php?bfunction=clickad&uid=100000&bmode=off&bzone=site1-top-{$smarty.get.type}&bsize=all&btype=1&bpos=default&ver=2.0" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/bannerdir/adpeeps.php?bfunction=showad&uid=100000&bmode=off&bzone=site1-top-{$smarty.get.type}&bsize=all&btype=1&bpos=default&ver=2.0" alt="Click Here!" border=0></a>
</NOSCRIPT>
</p>
<!-- END AdPeeps.com Code -->

You are done. Now the code calls the zone site1-top-{whatever the category}. The small price (I think $79) more than made up for itself in time saved creating, and managing ads.

And, yes, Maffo's Mod is a fine one, but like you I needed to serve multiple sites.

[Mike-N-Tosh]

gregbatch,

Thanks for the tip! Maybe I need to check out Adpeeps. I've not heard of it before. Yes, getting phpAdsnew (I haven't upgraded to the "openads" yet) zones right, etc. can certainly be a pain in the arse!

I hope that Adpeeps is also opensource.

-Mike

[gregbatch]

I'm sure it's open, though I have had no need to change anything other than the header, so I haven't looked.
It's a free trial - 10 days I think. If you need some clean sandbox space to check it out I'm happy to set you up.

[dawnrae]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

I would like to do this exact same thing as well, but I'm using PHPadsnew. I just want to see if I'm understanding the logic in how this solution is being done.

Store the invocation code for displaying the ad in a folder on your site. (In your case the text files are here: http://www.hotspringshomefront.com/t...s/mwt/banners/)

The smarty code listed in this thread is stored in a php file located in the (68classifieds site/includes/classes/smarty/plugins/"myads.php")

Then you include a call to the smarty function within the layout.tpl.php file where you have designated your ad to be placed.

Is that correct, or am I missing something?

Thanks,
-Mike

Yes, that's basically the process. I create a separate file for each banner campaign -- a default one for each category and then any special ones for special categories. I put those in the folder you mentioned above. Then, in the layout.tpl.php file, I place a smarty function to display either the default or designated campaign based upon the category, etc.

Dawn

Go Horns!