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Banner rotation script
hello everyone

Does anyone know of a FREE banner rotation CGI Script that does not require SSI?
If yes please let me know.
Regards

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Free? Not to my knowledge...Most are shareware.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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Yes FREE I am currently using a free one that requires SSI which i will not have as of next month.
I am sure there gotta be some non-ssi scripts out there.

regards

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There are...but they aren't free.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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Hi Eliot,

Let us know where to find the shareware scripts?


Thanks,

Keef

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Search the following web sites:

http://www.hotscripts.com

http://www.cgi-resources.com

http://www.perlscripts.com

http://www.freecode.com

One example is WebAdverts that is commonly linked in many Perl/CGI indices.

Good luck!

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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You could try:

http://www.adcycle.com

Cheers,

Alex

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I use OrbitCycle.com
It's not free- you allow, I think 10% of your impressions to be their banners. No cost!

If you want, you can purchase impressions ($20 per 100,000) and assign that amount to your groups.
I like it, been using it for "free" for about 2 months and had a few problems. They have gone down about 3 times (for about 3 hours)- which doesn't allow your page to load. I've talked them about it and they are going through some major changes over the next month or so.

Unlimited banners, Different sizes, Unlimited Zones, doesn't require SSI, and doesn't tie up system resources (remotely hosted).

Good luck,
Greg

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Hi i also used orbitcycle but i didn't like it. Here is what i have now, its pretty simply and allow you to rotate up to 10 banners, a link text below the banner and the alt tag.

As i said its pretty simple, it only rotates banners in your site, no stats, no number of impressions, etc.

Hope it works for you.

!-- Empieza Codigo
var no_patrocinadores = 3;
var now = new Date()
var sec = now.getSeconds()
var ad = sec % no_patrocinadores;
ad +=1;
if (ad==1) {
txt="";
url="http://www.explora-acapulco.com/";
alt="Explora Acapulco";
img_src="pub/banner02.GIF";
width="468";
height="60";
}
if (ad==2) {
txt="";
url="http://www.aia.org/";
alt="AIA ON LINE";
img_src="pub/aiabanner.gif";
width="468";
height="60";
}
if (ad==3) {
txt="";
url="http://www.arquired.net/";
alt="arqui-red : arquitectura en la red";
img_src="pub/arquired.gif";
width="468";
height="60";
}
document.write('<center>');
document.write('<a href=\"' + url + '\" target=\"_blank\">');
document.write('<img src=\"' + img_src + '\" width=')
document.write(width + ' height=' + height + ' ');
document.write('alt=\"' + alt + '\" border=0>
');
document.write('<small>' + txt + '</small></a>');
document.write('</center>');
// Termina Codigo --


Just change
var no_patrocinadores = 3;
to the number of banners you want to rotate, then add the following

if (ad==2) {
txt="";
url="http://www.aia.org/";
alt="AIA ON LINE";
img_src="pub/aiabanner.gif";
width="468";
height="60";
}

and change

if (add==2) {

to the number of banner. and remember to add the < >at the start and end of the script, i have to remove them because the script wasnt printed on the thread.

cheers



Carlos Alcocer
http://www.arquired.net
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Hey Carlos,
What didn't you like about OrbitCycle?
I'm new to the banner rotation game and that's the best I've found.
Greg

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Hum.....OrbitCycle.com
I remember I was with them at one point.
they do not support advertisers log on. (they offer a non secure URL).
They do not support a plain html script (you have to have a url and banner).
...

I do not remember what is but it wa a very bad experince, I will never suggest them to anyone.

there is adrotator.com they are very much the same with more advanced options.
I do not use either one of them, and never was comfortable with the idea that they can control 10% of my ads.



Regards
Christa
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I totally agree with Christa, and their servers aren't up all time, many times i had problems displaying the banners and it was Orbitcycle's fault.



Carlos Alcocer
http://www.arquired.net
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I use an older version of BannerFusion that isn't supported anymore and can't be downloaded either. Their newer version uses MySQL which I have to pay extra for on my server. In fact right now I can't even reach their site at:
http://www.BannerFusion.com
The script I have allows other users to rotate banners on their site and you can set a percentage of your banners displaying in the rotation. I don't use it this way, I just use it for my site. But it is the best free banner rotation script I have found that doesn't need ssi or MySQL.
Since they no longer support it or offer it for download I have modified it and customized it to meet my needs. It also includes features that were never completed like affiliate tracking, banner exchange, and click network. I really haven't worked with those much either. One change I did make was putting the banner display html in a text box to make it easier to copy and paste into my html document so I don't have to worry about line breaks.
Oh, I did find that their download page works even if their main page doesn't right now:
http://www.bannerfusion.com/download/
Here is a site that uses it:
http://www.p-kotech.com/cgi-bin/bf/start.pl

Mike
http://www.sweepstalk.com

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A nice package but too slowwww!

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Thanks alex
adcycle is doing a good job.



Regards
Christa
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I heard that webadverts is a great script, but cant get the damn [bleep!] to work, but still working on it :-))u can both use ssi and amg src on it.
any one who tryied it, and can tell me if it is worth spending setup time on it

Best Regards
Flummer

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It is a decent script...however, it is a flat file system, which I am convinced is not the way to go for most web applications, including banner rotation scripts. It is too CPU, Memory, and Disk Space intensive. One problem that I have is the nonssi.txt file, which controls the NON SSI views of banners is automatically deleted when it hits a certain size (like around 50,000 bytes)...I had to add flocking codes that did not corrupt the file when it was deleted...before adding the flock codes, I had to periodically re-create the nonssi.txt file, which is also labor intensive.

The best data storage system to use a SQL system, like MySQL and use either Perl or PHP to show the banners.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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Just wanted to give my input on a banner rotation script. I currently am using Adcyle from adcycle.com. This is a free script, and will do just about anything you want it to do, from non ssi to ssi, to rich media. It does use mysql, so its fast, if you have access to mysql. Everyone.net, the free content provider has recently switched over to it, so it can't be all that bad. So far haven't had any problems with it. Just my 2cents!

Can't never could do nothing till he whupped old couldn't till he could...
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I really want to use AdCycle too, but i don't have TelNet on my server. I can't get it either :) I have mySQL allowed, but don't know how to set it up. Also AdCycle uses TelNet to install it doesn't it?

Andy
webmaster@ace-installer.com

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No, you can install adcycle.com from your browser.

Paul Wilson. Shocked
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)
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How can you do that? (Note, i have no idea how to make MySQL files or anything like that, i only know how to install non-sql scripts!)

Thanks Cool

Andrew Newby

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It comes with a file called build.cgi which you execute from your browser and it builds all the MySQL tables automatically for you!



Paul Wilson. Shocked
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)
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But i thought that was only executable from TelNet?

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just add..

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

and it'd run in the browser... unless it asks for STDIN inputs..

Jerry Su
widgetz sucks
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Ni you can run it from your browser without any modification. I did it myself!

Paul Wilson. Shocked
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)
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