Hey guys,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post. I own multiple websites and to sell advertisement on all of them simultaneously from one place. So I don't want to manually put the code for banner on all the websites but just do from one place from the admin area.

Can this be done in PHP. Is there some free script already available?


Thank you.

Originally Posted by Jaspworld

Can this be done in PHP.

Yes. There are several ways you could approach this. One way would be to setup a script that would serve the ads and then fetch the output of that script in each site.

Here is a simplified example of how you might output the ad, assuming you have a script called 'adserver.php' that generates the ads:

PHP Code:

$server = 'http://yoursite.com/adserver.php';

$ad = file_get_contents($server);
echo $ad; 


A better approach might be to use ajax to retrieve the ad after the page is already loaded.

Another way to accomplish this would be to setup a library that would retrieve ad information from a database that each site has access to.

Originally Posted by Jaspworld

Is there some free script already available?

Probably, but it's hard to say without knowing more specifically what you need.

Just use javascript and provide the publishers a remote script, Google Adsense style.

Thanks for the reply. I definitely won't be coding this myself but it's great to get some insight into this.

I found something but they're pretty expensive :
http://www.yourfreeworld.com/script/textads.php

I'm not looking for someone to sell my ads for me or to join some network. On all my websites I'll have a link "Advertise with us". When someone is interested they can fill out a form or send me an e-mail and I'll go to the admin area, approve their website (after payment), and their ad is displayed on all the websites.


Thank you.

I definitely won't be coding this myself

Why not?

It not a particularly complex script just to write a few lines of text into an element on the page,

I had the impression that this would be very complicated and wanted to leave it to professional coders.

How would I do this using javascript? Can someone please give me a simple example using a text link. Once again I can't help but ask if there's a open source script like adsense available. That's because I would also like my advertisers to have stats avaialble (impressions, clicks), chose color of ads etc.

Thanks.

At it's simplest:

function showAd(){
	document.write('<br />');
	document.write('<a href="http://www.google.com">Anchor Text</a>');
	document.write('<br />');
}

Above is a remote script on your server.


this to include the remote script

<script src="http://www.ad-serv.co.uk/ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and

<script type="text/javascript">
	showAd();
</script>

To put the advert on the page

the script is live BTW if you want to make sure it works on your pages.

That's very rudimentary and tracking and stats can be written in to give impressions and clicks etc.

Hello,
Yes, that works great . I've realized that I'll have to stop being lazy and do this myself. That gives me more freedom to do what I want. I'll be posting here again when I want to add more features and stuff.

Thank you.