Also check out http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread13624.html as I am trying to compile a list of places that I can ads from

Ok... I have a site, getting people stopping by, so what the hell put a couple ads out their and see what happens. I do have a vb forum, and I am still trying to learn how to do the conditional for members.

What I would like to get to learn is how others are using Phpadsnew to server their ads. While using ads from the thread link above, how are you servering them... I haven't really played with Phpadsnew enough to really take advantage of it's usage.

So any ideas on getting this started would be great
Thanks in advanced
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I'm using phpAdsNew with local invocation. No messy JavaScript on my site

Ok... don't understand that... what does local invocation do... could you explain.

I'm using phpAdsNew with javascript invocation, which allows me to run my ad server on one location and serve ads on multiple websites and multiple servers. I'm not sure why javascript is "messy" because it's a solution that's worked well for me.

I'm curious, cscgal, how are you targeting ads for a specific forum or forums?

phpAdsNew allows you to specify a "source" for an advertisement (i.e. page1, page2, etc.), for logging purposes. I have customized my vBulletin to make this source be the name of a forum. JavaScript is messy because it is a client-side language, which means it is interpreted by the web browser instead of the server.

I still don't think Javascript is really "messy."

I see the option to specify a source. Does this work with the vBulletin querystring (i.e. f=127) or do you need to first install your mod_rewrite code for vBulletin?

If you use the JavaScript invocation in your templates, you should be able to use source=$forumid within the URL.

hi guys,

have your compared and confirmed that your phpadsnew statistics??

i have read sad stories in the developer forum, where people complain that their
stats are not matching. http://forum.phpadsnew.com/index.php?showforum=12

I would love to be able to serve targeted ads based on the source, but would like to do that not just for the forumdisplay, but also all topics within a given forum.

For example, if the forum was about games, I would want to target gamers throughout the topics in that forum, while another forum at the same site might target music fans. But the forumid isn't used in the URLs of indidual threads.

BigBlueBall, are you using vBulletin? If so, it doesn't matter. The thread templates still have access to the $forumid variables. Not sure how it works in other forum systems, but either way, I would assume that all threads have access to the forum ID they are part of.