Hi David,
Not sure whether this relates to this or your php forum?
I have a number of logo based banners at the head of my sites this url for example - {link saved}.
Some of the merchants have feeds other don't. however I find myself changing or adding the banners occasionally such as for sale events or promotions.
My question is considering these are currently hand coded, whether it would make sense pull them from a database of sorts, and as such would it be more practical pulling them from PT database or a separate standalone database. I would them need some guidance on how to incorporate.
Thanks again
Paul
Hi David,
OK David, thanks for that! I suppose that as the banners will be only delivered on the home page, would it be that problematic in terms of database usage?
However I suppose in a round about way all I was looking for was a simple php exercise I could play with, if it was a practical solution, and not too database hungry, I thought this may be worth trying.
I know this is a bit basic for this forum, but I'm finding in learning php, I can do basics and echo "hello world", but I can't unpick your advanced code to make any sense of it and learn that way, but finding an easy practical exercise that is usable is a bit of a challenge? any suggestions?
Sorry to go off topic David..
Hi Paul,
If they change rarely, I would be far more inclined to keep it as a manual solution avoiding lots of database look-ups for every page view - especially considering the neat layout that you have of numerous micro-banners - this could get quite costly in terms of database access.
Having said that, there is a dedicated and excellent, open-source ad management platform that hundreds of affiliate's use to manage their banner and link inventory across their sites. It used to be called phpAdsNew but is now known as OpenX, which may be worth investigating...
Cheers,
David.