phpAdsNew

phpAdsNew is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does phpAdsNew has support cache busters?

In some circumstances you may want to add a banner network to phpAdsNew. Some banner networks rely on cache busters in order to work correctly. A cache buster is a random string of digits which must be unique in every call to the banner network. In the next example the # must be replaced with unique number everytime the banner is shown.
http://servedby.advertising.com/site=12345/size=468060/bnum=########/bins=1/rich=0

If you add this banner network to phpAdsNew you must use 'Banner refered through URL' and replace the random number with the following string {random:x} and replace x with the number of digits you want to have. For example:
http://servedby.advertising.com/site=12345/size=468060/bnum={random:8}/bins=1/rich=0

If you need to add the same random number to both the image and the target url you can simply specify the same {random:x} code in both the image and target url. phpAdsNew will make sure the string {random:x} is replaced with the same number in both cases.

Can you help me to install phpAdsNew? Can you please implement this feature I need?

Maybe. Let us know what you want...

Troubleshooting

phpAdsNew doesn't display any banners on pages which are the result of a form being submitted in IE

This is a known bug in IE 4 and higher. phpAdsNew 1.9 does have a workaround for this bug, but it only works in remote invocation with JavaScript and local mode. Normal remote invocation is still affected by this bug. Microsoft is aware of this bug for some time and IE 6 apparently works fine. If you use normal remote invocation there is nothing we can do about it.

phpAdsNew doesn't display any HTML banners

HTML banners are only supported if you use remote invocation with JavaScript of local mode. It is not possible to display HTML banner with normal remote invocation.

The login doesn't work, it keeps prompting for username/password all over again or I can't add banners

Make sure you have enabled magic_quotes_gpc in your PHP configuration.
Make sure $phpAds_url_prefix in config.inc.php is exactly the same as it is on the server (http://www.test.com/phpads is not the same as http://www.test.com/phpAds). Also make sure it doesn't end with a slash (/).

I get the following error: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_(p)connect()

Your PHP is not configured for MySQL support. If you're on Unix, you need to recompile PHP --with-mysql. If you're on Windows, you have to enable the MySQL DLL in your PHP configuration. See the manual, installation section, for more details.