You CAN use PHP to generate the AdSense code!

To whom it may concern:

EDIT: This is posted here because some people had doubts about this complying with AdSense TOS. Just to clear things out I wrote AdSense support about this and here's their reply:

Hello Mihai,

As long as the final version of the code, as seen on your website when you
look at the page source, is identical to code that is provided in your
accout, you may use PHP to change colors, channels, alternate URLs, etc.

I do recommend being careful, however, since a simple mistake like missing
quotes could stop your ads from working.

Sincerely, 

David
The Google AdSense Team

Code (markup):

Happy coding!

 

whooaa, i wanna also try that... but i have not find thats like any letter. is this only specials for u.

 

That's a reply to an enquiry I've sent to AdSense support. Not something special for myself only!

 

Am I the only one that thinks this is something that is obviously allowed?

I've been doing this since adsense launched without any problems!

 

No, I thought that as well, but some thought it's against TOS so I actually wrote AdSense on this.

 

I doubt that a mass message was sent with a mispell, by a Google representative. They are very thourough.

And i doubt that this message was sent only to one single advertiser.

Can uou post some headers of the e-mail ?

 

Hate to break it to you, but even google employees can make mistakes!

 

PS Grow up! People make mistakes. Doh!..

 

Humm..... I don't know why. But Some of the readymade sites that are available on the internet are also using the same technique.

That is why PHP is there. To format or process the html code before it gets outputted.

 

I am grown up. That's why i ask questions.

 

I think its all a conspiricy ... I dont know the conspiracy is but I just know it must be....

Now my question

Is it possible that a programmer can make it look like its my adsense code but actually is his ...

cause I got tons of traffic going on , but very few page veiws and few few clicks ....

 

If he has access to your server of course he can! You could check from time to time the source of the pages and see what publisher id is in the ads code. If it's not yours, it's someone else's.

 

PHP gives you options that make it quite easy to to print up rotating codes or whatever.

But you do not have to edit the orginal code to do it. I have shown many times in other posts that you can post using php without ever editing code.
Why take the chance to edit code?

Then when you are finished coding are you going to click your own ads to TEST your coding ability? I sure hope not.

It is so simple to use a php IF statment to print up the code copied and pasted from the google website. You just have to exit out of the php script before pasting using ?>Google code here<? If you attempt to paste the code inside the php script then the actual google code will mess up the php CODE.

Here it is again

<?
$showad="true";
if ($showad=="true"){?>EXACT GOOGLE CODE COPIED FROM GOOGLES SITE<?}
?>

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Below is a php script that will show random colored borders(don't forget to srand) You can also do this for different ad sizes.

<?
$showad=rand(1,4)
if ($showad==1){?>Exact copy of google code for ad format with red border<?}
if ($showad==2){?>Exact copy of google code for ad format with blue border <?}
if ($showad==3){?>Exact copy of google code for ad format with green border <?}
if ($showad==4){?>Exact copy of google code for ad format with yellow border<?}
?>

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You don't need to click on your ads to test, you just need to review the resulting html code and verify that it's correct.

"If you attempt to paste the code inside the php script then the actual google code will mess up the php CODE"
This is incorrect, you just have to escape all quotes or you can use something like :
$yourvariable = <<<CODE
Your HTML
CODE;
it will not mess up. But you're correct you can have 4 times the same HTML code copied from adsense wizard tool.

PS: you don't need to srand for rand() to work, it was with old versions of PHP

 

Wow learn something new everyday - I've wasted so many lines of SRAND and I see this change has been around since version 4.2.0.

 

It's the same as what's been discussed before: You can manually change the codes yourself as long as the Adsense CP can duplicate the changes you made. I.e. You can't do anything manually to your code that your CP couldn't do for you. Likewise here.

 

thanks for posting this. it is such a relief that common sense has prevailed!

hopefully the super paranoid amongst us will read this and finally make the step down to moderately paranoid

 

I don't see what the big deal is - Google can't tell how the Adsense code is generated, only how it appears in the HTML source, so they couldn't possibly ban you for creating it via PHP because how would they know? Also, this site presumably generates the Adsense code by PHP (or at least part of it) to make the revenue sharing feature work.

I think the lack of common sense is coming from the webmasters, rather than Google.

 

this is irrelevant, but theoretically they could tell... if they logged the usage in your account of the generation tool, and you have ads displaying your website in a format that was never generated by them.

 

i've been doing this for awhile now on my blog. readers can change background colors on the entire site including the adsense ads

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