Sponsor Quetion?

[Toby]

You can use PHPAdsNew to track outgoing clicks. It doesn't have to be used just for rotating and tracking banner ads.

However, whether using PHPAdsNew or any other strategy for tracking outgoing clicks, if you are linking to sponsor hosted galleries you still won't get accurate data on raw clicks to the sponsor since the surfer must click thru from the hosted gallery to the site tour, in most cases, before the sponsor records a click.

[sarettah]

Ok, as I was putting together a sample, I decided that the ssi was not a good way, which might be what you were questing earlier rcourt. lol.

Sorry that's what happens when you are coding asp against sql server, php against mysql, foxpro and javascript pretty much all at the same time while you post on a message board. The brain gets pretty befuddled.

Anyway, a sample page is here http://www.bntnews.com/rcourt

The PHP version just writes a new record to a simple text file each time a link is clicked (actual tracking should be deeper than this, should capture date, time, page it came from etc) I was moving fast so I just wrote another line to the text file which is at http://www.bntnews.com/rcourt/track.txt

The html version is just a simple redirect using a meta tag redirect with a zero refresh and as I said earlier, you would get your counts from that by looking at your logs.

Yeah Toby, phpads can be used that way pretty easily, but there is a certain amount of overhead that goes along with that, but it will give you some pretty detailed data.

Like I said, many different ways to skin the cat


The code in redirect.php (the script for the php version) Like I said, an extremely simple example:

0)
  {
    fputs($checkit,$site . "\n");
    fclose($checkit);
  }
  # redirect to page
  header('location:http://' . $site . '.com');
?>

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Ok, as I was putting together a sample, I decided that the ssi was not a good way, which might be what you were questing earlier rcourt. lol.

Sorry that's what happens when you are coding asp against sql server, php against mysql, foxpro and javascript pretty much all at the same time while you post on a message board. The brain gets pretty befuddled.

Anyway, a sample page is here http://www.bntnews.com/rcourt

The PHP version just writes a new record to a simple text file each time a link is clicked (actual tracking should be deeper than this, should capture date, time, page it came from etc) I was moving fast so I just wrote another line to the text file which is at http://www.bntnews.com/rcourt/track.txt

The html version is just a simple redirect using a meta tag redirect with a zero refresh and as I said earlier, you would get your counts from that by looking at your logs.

Yeah Toby, phpads can be used that way pretty easily, but there is a certain amount of overhead that goes along with that, but it will give you some pretty detailed data.

Like I said, many different ways to skin the cat


The code in redirect.php (the script for the php version) Like I said, an extremely simple example:

0)
  {
    fputs($checkit,$site . "\n");
    fclose($checkit);
  }
  # redirect to page
  header('location:http://' . $site . '.com');
?>

WOW thanks, I need to re read it over about another 100 times before it sinks in..LOL. But thanks

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

WOW thanks, I need to re read it over about another 100 times before it sinks in..LOL. But thanks

The code form the sample page I posted:

  
  
  
  PHP version
  Click here to go to Weekend Jewelry
  Click here to go to Paper Jewels
  HTML redirect version
  Click here to go to Weekend Jewelry
  Click here to go to paper jewels
  

If you notice, the url actually being used is redirect.php?site=weekend-jewelry. That is a the redirect script being called and in the call weekend-jewelry is passed in as a variable called "site"

0)  Only do this if the file opened successfully
  {
    fputs($checkit,$site . "\n");  Write the value in the site variable to the file

The \n at the end of the line is a linefeed so that each
 write creates a new line.  

fclose($checkit);   Close the file
  }
  # redirect to page
  header('location:http://' . $site . '.com');  Since weekend-jewelry was in 
site this will redirect to a url 
of http// + weekend-jewelry + .com (http://weekend-jewelry.com)
?>

Simple simon

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Toby

You can use PHPAdsNew to track outgoing clicks. It doesn't have to be used just for rotating and tracking banner ads.

However, whether using PHPAdsNew or any other strategy for tracking outgoing clicks, if you are linking to sponsor hosted galleries you still won't get accurate data on raw clicks to the sponsor since the surfer must click thru from the hosted gallery to the site tour, in most cases, before the sponsor records a click.

and you can set phpadsnew up on one domain and run it remotely on all your domains....i love that shit