Banner Ads For Website

[brian-bear]

I wish to use banner ads, reading the forum there is the Maffo module but it only runs with developer, is there any other versions available, or has a fix been done for it to run in designer. Worst case senario if I do have to upgrade to designer is there any sites running the system that can preview or their owners can provide feedback on the system

thanks

[GSP]

I�ve been using phpAdsNew. It and open source script and works well. There is a bit of a learning curve to it but once you figure out how it works you�re good to go. It might be worth looking into. You can check it out for yourself here: http://phpadsnew.com/two/

Tom

[Blair]

Some other folks are also using AdPeeps...

[brian-bear]

I got phpadsnew up and working but did anyone get a solution how to link a banner to a specific url or category. I have the invocation code in my layout.tpl

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by brian-bear

I got phpadsnew up and working but did anyone get a solution how to link a banner to a specific url or category. I have the invocation code in my layout.tpl

You could set up miltiple ad campaigns and then use logic in the template to determine the category (if any) that your in and display the appropriate phpadsnew campaign invocation code.

[brian-bear]

Would that mean adding loads of java script to the template for each campaign?
Surely there must be an easy way, I would have though this idea would be use a lot.

Maffo have you your system working yet in designer?

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by brian-bear

Would that mean adding loads of java script to the template for each campaign?
Surely there must be an easy way, I would have though this idea would be use a lot.

Maffo have you your system working yet in designer?

I would use includes and selectively call the one I needed to invoke the campaign for the appropriate category.

[brian-bear]

Hi Larry
Sorry but I am not a coder so thats a little over my head, I was inserting the javascript invocation code into the layout.tpl where I wanted the ad to appear

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by brian-bear

Hi Larry
Sorry but I am not a coder so thats a little over my head, I was inserting the javascript invocation code into the layout.tpl where I wanted the ad to appear

Basically what you would do is create seperate files just to hold the invocation code. Then use logic in the template to determine where your at and in turn make a call to the file that has the code you want to invoke.

For example lets say your site is for pets and you have 3 categories. Dogs, cats, birds. Then in PHPadsnew you have 3 campaigns. Each campaing has multiple ads but is targetted toward a specific animal.

Now you create 3 files, dogs.js, cats.js and birds.js. In each one of these you place the invocation JS code for the campaing in question.

Then in layout.tpl.php you have some simple logic to determine the category you are in.

Something like this...

PHP Code:

{foreach name=outer item=contact from=$breadcrumb}
{foreach item=item from=$contact}
{assign var=category value=$item|strip_tags:false}
{/foreach}
{/foreach}
{if $category=="Dog"}
    {include file='dog.js'}
{elseif $category=="Cat"}
    {include file='cat.js'}
{elseif $category=="bird"}
    {include file='bird.js'}
{/if} 


The above will check for the category name and include the apropriate JS invocation code based on the category thats being viewed.

[brian-bear]

Hi Larry
I done a little more research on this and found an even better solution. Phpadsnew have a development / evolution of Phpadsnew called Max Media Manager or MMM for short, you can upgrade or just do a fresh install. It allows you to target an ad to an exact url and really works great, down side is that is a development and has a very high learning curve for a beginer, however if you mastered Phpadsnew it is easy