Re: [cgiapp] Ad Server

[Joel Gwynn <suppressed>]

As Jason says, inserting the ad is the trivial part.  The important
parts are the ad management and reporting.

On 4/26/05, Michael Peters <suppressed> wrote:
> Michael Peters wrote:
> > Joel Gwynn wrote:
> >
> >>So the ads are inserted via javascript and not interpreted php?  What
> >>are the non-javascript options, just out of curiousity.
> >
> >
> > It really shouldn't be that hard to write a one mode C::A that would
> > randomly pick an ad and send it to the browser. If you use mod_rewrite
> > (or mod_perl) you can even make anyone looking at the source think it's
> > just a normal jpg.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> >   <img src="/random_ad.jpg" />
> >
> > And then in your httpd.conf (using mod_rewrite)
> >
> >   RewriteRule ^/random_ad\.jpg$/  /my_add.cgi [R,L]
> 
> Or if you want to get fancy and specify the height and width...
> 
>   <img src="/50x100/random_ad.jpg" />
> 
> with the following rewrite rule
> 
>    RewriteRule ^/(.*)x(.*)/random_ad.jpg$/
> /my_add.cgi?height=$1&width=$2 [R,L]
> 
> Just some ideas :)
> 
> --
> Michael Peters
> Developer
> Plus Three, LP
> 
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