activation/ participation

[kaptain]

my site is all htm pages, does that mean i can not join the ad network

[digitalpoint]

You may be able to, depending on how your server is setup. If the server supports PHP, you may be able to override the extensions so .htm is evaluated as PHP.

[kaptain]

yes my server does support the latest php. i have my own server and have some sites that use php now.

i already registared but it states account not yet active.

i already modified my htaccess and uploaded the other two files and it did write two adds in to the ad_network_ads.txt .

i was trying to figure out what to add to my pages to get the account to validate and to show ads but could not get it to work.

any help would be apreciated

dave

[digitalpoint]

Are ads showing on the site you are trying to validate already? I would assume they would have to if the ad_network_ads.txt has ads in it (unless you called the PHP file directly).

[kaptain]

oh, i did call the php directly once. oops.

i guess my question is.

exctly what code do i need to have on my pages to get the ads to show?

the code i tried i have removed because is was not working. or did not seem to work.

dave

[digitalpoint]

Have you tried the code that the setup instructions has?

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/setup.php?type=99

Step 3 and higher...

[kaptain]

you know, i was using the wrong code.

this is what i am using now on my site pages:
<?php
ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include_once ('ad_network.php');
echo $ad_network;
?>

if i chose text link, it would only show a text link correct?

if the above is true i see the ads on my page but it does not validate yet.

after reading post in forum am i to understand that it will not validate until i add the code to all pages with-in the entire site?

dave

[digitalpoint]

Correct... if you select text link only, that's all that would show.

You are also correct in the fact that it should be site-wide in order validate properly. Do you have any central header/footer or anything that is global for your site? Would be easier to add it to one place of course if you do.

[kaptain]

"Do you have any central header/footer or anything that is global for your site?"

i have not figured out how to do that yet. (i am embarrassed to say)

[digitalpoint]

Well might not be a bad idea to look into... :) Not even just for the ad network.

[kaptain]

i have everything done except i have some pages working out of the cgi-bin

in the coge i tried the original code and tried:
<?php
ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include_once ('www.mysite.com/ad_network.php');
echo $ad_network;
?>


but can't get the ad to show on cgi pages

the cgi pages are also mode-rewrite to html

also added the http:// before the www.

dave

[compar]

"Do you have any central header/footer or anything that is global for your site?"

i have not figured out how to do that yet. (i am embarrassed to say)
Start a thread on Server Side Includes. I'm sure you will get lots of help with this rather simple technology.

[digitalpoint]

but can't get the ad to show on cgi pages

the cgi pages are also mode-rewrite to html

also added the http:// before the www.

dave
Do you have a sample page where you cannot get them to work?

[kaptain]

http://www.web-site-hosting-n-tools.com/cgi-bin/resources-mode-books-input_string-ASP-locale-us.html

[digitalpoint]

What type of file is it underneath it all? Basically what would the URL look like without the rewrite?

[kaptain]

http://www.web-site-hosting-n-tools.com/cgi-bin/resources-mode-books-input_string-ASP-locale-us.cgi

[digitalpoint]

So you actually have what I assume is a ton of .cgi files in that directory?

Do you know how it's done exactly? With SSI or something else?

[kaptain]

the cgi script pulls products from an XML feed and produces the page from a template to a page with .cgi then the mode-rewrite changes the .cgi to .html

the pages are dynamic. yes it appears as if i have a few hundred thousand pages in that dir

is that the info your looking for?

[digitalpoint]

Sort of... kind of hard to help debug it though without seeing the actual CGI code, since an include will be different depending on how the CGI is setup.

[kaptain]

i'll work on it and let you know how it goes

i do have everything on all my other pages for now

[kaptain]

ok, i have something just not sure how to modify

on the pages from the cgi script

if i wanted to ad a simple footer or a text file ect.

i would need to
<!--apf &apf_include=../html/TEXTFILE.htm!!-->
and that works to include a text file

so i tried
<!--apf &apf_include=../html/ad_network.php!!-->

and that produced
', $ads); if (count ($ads) < 101 || $ads[0] + 3600 < time()) { $ads[] = file_get_contents ('http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?type=link'); $ads[0] = time(); if (count ($ads) > 101) unset ($ads[1]); $file = fopen($ad_file, 'w'); fwrite ($file, implode ('', $ads)); fclose ($file); $ad_network = end ($ads); } else { $ad_network = $ads[rand(1,count($ads))]; } $ad_network .= ''; } else { $ad_network = 'You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable.'; } if (substr ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_NAME'], -6) == '.shtml') { ini_set ('zlib.output_compression', 0); echo $ad_network; } ?>

look at the bottom of this page: http://www.web-site-hosting-n-tools.com/cgi-bin/resources-mode-software-input_string-Virus+Firewall-locale-us.html

in the location the ad should be

again i have all my other pages working with the ads just fine just not the cgi produced pages.

[digitalpoint]

The problem with that include is that it's a raw file include, rather than spinning it through the PHP parser. So it will just spit out the raw PHP code (as you see).

If the include in your CGI supports URLs, you could do something like this:

<!--apf &apf_include=http://www.web-site-hosting-n-tools.com/ad_network.php!!-->

And add this to the end of the PHP file (before the closing PHP tags):

echo $ad_network;

If that works, you will also need to take out the following from your "normal" files: echo $ad_network;

[kaptain]

:eek: :mad:

well, no it wont work that way either

i will keep tying, thier has to be a way??

i do have it on a good bit of pages on this site and have other sites that i will be useing this on.

If you or anyone else has another idea...please,please let me know!

thanks for the help so far i have learned a few things. so it was not a waste :)

dave