help PHPADS !!!

[Cloughie]

OK finally after a bit of confusion I have this up and running on my server

but it does not seem to work.. I have used the admin interface toadd a client and have inputted the banner url and specified 30 days...

It also tells me I must include the following files in each page I want the banners to be displayed..

config.inc.php3
view.inc.php2
acl.inc.php3

At the moment as I have a launch notifiaction page up and all my site is in a folder called test there is not much point in setting the whole thing up.. But I wanna test it on one page

So I have included the folowwing where my banner should go..

<!--#include file="../phpAds/config.inc.php3">
<!--#include file="../phpAds/view,inc.php2">
<!--#include file="../phpAds/acl.inc.php3">

Is this right ? Well, the banner is not being displayed and I can see the includes on my html on a view source..

As my folder is test, I have done the ../ to get it back to the root folder and then the path is correct..

Any ideas on why this does not work ? ?

[Cloughie]

for those of you that have noticed the comma serror in the second include I have fixed this and no luck

I have also tried

<!--#include
file="http://www.wannabebig.com/phpAds/config.inc.php3">

<!--#include file="http://www.wannabebig.com/phpAds/view.inc.php2">

<!--#include file="http://www.wannabebig.com/phpAds/acl.inc.php3">

[KeithMcL]

Have you tried <!--#include virtual=""--> instead?

What about changing the pages to be php and try uing PHPs include?

I did get phpAds to work on my site. Think I had to have the index.html page as index.php though.

[Cloughie]

thanks for the suggestions Keith but no luck...

I tried virtual....

I also tried chaning the extension of my page to php that I am testing..

http://www.wannabebig.com/test/about.html

If you do view source the includes still show.. surely they shouldn't huh ?

[Edited by Cloughie on 11-01-2000 at 05:56 AM]

[KeithMcL]

Cloughie, the reason the includes are still showing is because you didn't name the file as a .shtml instead of .html

I forgot to do that once and couldn't understand why

[Cloughie]

tried that too !!!!

Kevin managed to help me ... I am going to change all of my pages in my site to .php, then use php includes

[Cloughie]

ANOTHER PROB..
OK the includes are now working I think

Any used php ads ? I have made up 2 customers... One with a html adresss, and the other as a sql...

I can't seem to get it to work...

I have included the files before any html in the .php page like so..

<?php

include("http://www.wannabebig.com/phpAds/config.inc.php3");
include("http://www.wannabebig.com/phpAds/view.inc.php3");
include("http://www.wannabebig.com/phpAds/acl.inc.php3");


?>

What do I put where the banner should go ? ?

I have tried view(1); for example... It says the view function is undefiined ? ? Surely the view thing should be in the include files..., which leads me to suspect the includes aren;t working.. but when you view source the page I can;t see the includes just a blank space so then I think they are !!

Any ideas. ?



[Edited by Cloughie on 11-01-2000 at 08:31 AM]

[KeithMcL]

I can't remember how i got it to work. I don't use it anymore.

I'd suggest going to the phpAds support forum at http://www.phpwizard.net/phorum/list.php?f=2 and asking for help there.

[Cloughie]

been al over the iste and other people have asked the same question with no usefull answers..

I still get fatal error - call to unsupported or undefined function view ()

I am doing

<?

view(0)

?>

Which is supposed to view a randonm error...

The view include file sets the function for this so I think I am doing things right ?

anyone else ?

[KeithMcL]

I just joined CJ.com but haven't setup by banners yet. I'm pretty sure I still have phpAds setup somewhere on my site.

I'll play around with it and see if i can remember how I did it

[KeithMcL]

Well Cloughie, I got my phpAds to work

This is the code i used to call on the banner <a href="/phpAds/click.php3"><img src="/phpAds/phpads.php3?what=468x60&n=ban1" border="0"></a> and it seems to work ok.

Because vBulletin uses a table called session I had to put phpads before all phpads tables and go through every file editing the call to the tables

But it's working now

A working example is at http://www.webmasterswork.com

[KeithMcL]

Now that only calls the same banner over and over because it mentions ban1 in the image tag but as far as I remember you can just leave the what=468x60 to show random banners.

I'll add a few more banners and see if I can get it to chose random ones and if so i'll post how I did it here.

[KeithMcL]

Yes, just having <a href="/phpAds/click.php3"><img src="/phpAds/phpads.php3?what=468x60" border="0"></a> works fine.

Did you get it sorted yet?

[Cloughie]

yep sorted...

What does 468x60 mean ? Obviously the size of the banner. I have two clients in my phpads...

How do I rotate the,.randomaise them, etc.... I.,e change the display options... ?

Hey I added you on icq... Can you turn it on ?

[Cloughie]

ok 468x60 in random yeah ?

However when I keep refreshing the same banner shows... The sql one....

I also have a html banner with a url etc.. This one dosen;t come up..

Is it best to generally keep them in sql ?

Also when you delete a client does it delete the graphic from the db ?

Sorry for all the q's

[Cloughie]

WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

got it all sorted now....

Cheers Keith...

[KeithMcL]

No problem Cloughie, glad I could help