Just wondering if anyone can help me with this. On a site I am developing I am going to have an advertising area where I either want to display:
A 120x600 skyscraper
OR
2 or more smaller side adverts (buttons/boxes etc.)

Now, I know that in PHPAdsNew, I can create the skyscraper zone, and if nothing is available from that I can display a zone which shows a smaller advert. I also know that I can create a single zone with variable height and have both skyscrapers and smaller ads in it.

The problem with both these situations is that it will only display one smaller ad if the skyscraper is not shown, not 2 or 3.

The only solution I have come up with so far is to set up a small PHP script to alternate/randomly go between two different methods of calling the ad:

1. Display the skyscraper zone (which is set to have the smaller ad zone as its 'backup') and put up with the occasional single smaller ad appearing
2. Display the smaller ad code twice or three times

Obviously, this isn't a brilliant solution as it takes away a lot of control from PHPAdsNew and I may end up with skyscrapers not showing enough.

Any ideas?

i think, if you put the smaller ones, in the same zone, as the one that keeps showing up, they will rotate

Yes. There are other good scripts that allow these. Have a look at Hotscripts !!

How bout

PHP Code:

list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
mt_srand((float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000));

$randval = mt_rand(1,20);

if($randval <= 10)
{
    // skyscraper ads
}

else
{
    // the 2 or 3 mini ads
} 


Giving the skyscraper if more or less depending on how much you want it to show.