Need a banner handling script, ideas?

[jmst]

I've been searching the ~hotscript sites but was wondering if anyone here had any better suggestions.

Here's what I want to do and what I'm after...

Have a database of 20 advertisers, each with a link and banner image.
Display these banners at random on my homepage, one at a time.

Allow visitors to select any of the 20 advertisers via links labelled "Advertiser 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5".. and so on from the homepage.

Have each banner impression counted for each advertiser and displayed publically on a different page. Updated in realtime or every ~5 minutes.

eg. name.com/stats.php
Advertiser 1 - 256 impressions
Advertiser 2 - 75 impressions
Advertiser 3 - 501 impressions
Advertiser 4 - 385 impressions

Also for the clicks to be monitored but to be kept in an admin panel.
I'd like to offer both redirects and direct links (non countable of course) for SE purposes.


Any ideas what would be able to offer this or am I looking at a custom built solution only?

Thanks

[DavidAusman]

I think this type of script does not exist. You probably need to customly built

[Bender]

I think you'll need a custom built script.

[SouthernTn]

Just go with PHP Ads..

[Gray]

I've written a script that does this.

-------------------------- ROTATOR.PHP ----------------------------


<?php

// BANNER ROTATOR V1.0
// Displays multiple advertisers banners on your site by how many credits they have
// License : Freeware
// Banners are randomly displayed from directory ROTATOR
// Credits count down and banners stop displaying when their credits are used up
// Requires your server to run PHP and your web page must have extension .php

// INSTALL
// Upload this file as rotator.php
// Create directory rotator under the directory where this script is used
// Create a text file rotator/rotator.txt
// Make the 1st line CREDITS BANNER URL
// Insert the following line where you want the banner displayed on your page
// <?php include("rotator.php"); ? >
// (no space between ? >)

//---------------------------------------------------------- ------------

// Example of rotator.txt

// CREDITS BANNER URL
// 90 mbannr.gif www.milliondollarhosting.com
// 95 games1.gif www.gamesandstuff.com
// 0 sharkfins.gif www.sharks.com

// If all credits are 0 then 1st banner is displayed
// For free advertising you can set default banner(s) with 999999999 credits

$strFile1 = "rotator/rotator.txt";

//---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------

// open for read
$objFH = fopen( $strFile1, "r" );
$strBuffer1 = fread( $objFH, filesize( $strFile1 ) );
fclose( $objFH );

// tally number of banners with credits, by counting rows in rotator.txt
$myeof = true;
$tosay = $strBuffer1;
$numbanners = -1;
while ($myeof) {

$nextret = strpos($tosay, "\n");
$say = substr($tosay, 0, $nextret);
$tosay = substr($tosay, $nextret+1);
if ($say[0] != '0') $numbanners++;
if (strpos($tosay, "\n") == 0) $myeof=false;

}

//---------------------------------------------------------- ----------------

// select banner and subtract 1 credit from rotator.txt
$myeof = true;
$tosay = $strBuffer1;
$checked = 0;
$selectedban = "";
$freeban = "";
$strBuffer2 = "";
while ($myeof) {

$nextret = strpos($tosay, "\n");
$say = substr($tosay, 0, $nextret);
$tosay = substr($tosay, $nextret+1);
$pcred = strpos($say, " ");
$pban = strpos($say, " ", $pcred+1);
$creds = substr($say, 0, $pcred);
$bans = substr($say, $pcred+1, $pban-$pcred-1);
$urls = substr($say, $pban+1);

// 1 chance in number-of-remaining-banners to be selected
if (($selectedban=="") && is_numeric($creds) && (rand($checked, $numbanners-1) == $checked)) {

if ($creds > 0) {
$tax = 0 - 1 + $creds;
$selectedban = $bans;
$selectedurl = $urls;
}
else {
$tax = 0;
}
$strBuffer2.= $tax . " " . $bans . " " . $urls . "\n";
if ($freeban == "" ) {
$freeban = $bans;
$freeurl = $urls;
}
}
else {
$strBuffer2.= $say . "\n";
}

if (is_numeric($creds) && ($creds>0)) $checked++;
if (strpos($tosay, "\n") == 0) $myeof=false;

}

if ($selectedban == "") {
$selectedban = $freeban;
$selectedurl = $freeurl;
}

//---------------------------------------------------------- --------------

// open for write
$objFH = fopen( $strFile1, "w" );
fwrite( $objFH, $strBuffer2 );
fclose( $objFH );

?>

<a href="http://<? echo $selectedurl; ?>"><img src="rotator/<? echo $selectedban; ?>" height=60 width=468
border=0></a>

Let me know if it works, no admin panel just edit rotator.txt directly.

[jmst]

Thank you Gray, could be exactly what I'm after. The project idea I had isn't due to begin for a few weeks but once I find the time to get it going I'll report back/PM you.

[namestrands]

Thank you Gray, could be exactly what I'm after. The project idea I had isn't due to begin for a few weeks but once I find the time to get it going I'll report back/PM you.

You should also consider http://phpadsnew.com/two/

it is probably the best adserver I have EVER used..

[Iken]

Have a look at RevSense.
http://w3matter.com/