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How to create Simple PHP Link Rotator

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Nik555, Sep 30, 2008.

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  1. #1
    I wanna have a banner on my site that will direct to different advertiser each time a person clicks on it. How to do that.

    Example, i have 5 links, that i want rotate under that banner
     
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    live-cms_com Notable Member

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  3. Nik555

    Nik555 Peon

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    yeah but how do i change thiese companies ads with my own links
     
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  5. mehdi

    mehdi Peon

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    #5
    Try this, its simple:

    
<?php
//Add as many links you want
$mylink[1] = '<a href="http://www.aioshared.com">Free Rapidshare Search Engine</a>';
$mylink[2] = '<a href="http://www.hotmail.com">Free 5gb Mailbox</a>';
$mylink[3] = '<a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Fastest and Secure Web Browser</a>';
//....
//....

//Change 3 to as many links you have added above
$id = rand(1,3);

echo $mylink[$id];
?>
    PHP:
    Hope its what you are looking for...
     
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  6. Xabber

    Xabber Active Member

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    Yea, use the random function. It's not hard, really... just google it up :)
     
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  7. nastynappy

    nastynappy Banned

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    #7
    for better solution :
    
<?php
//Add as many links you want
$mylink[1] = '<a href="http://www.pegor.com">Free PHP Tutorials</a>';
$mylink[2] = '<a href="http://www.lifestinks.info">Fast Facebook Proxy</a>';
$mylink[3] = '<a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Fastest and Secure Web Browser</a>';
//$mylink[4] = .....
//$mylink[5] = ....

// this will count your links itself and select a random one
$id = rand(1,count($mylink));

// this will display the random link
echo $mylink[$id];
?>
    PHP:
     
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  8. Nik555

    Nik555 Peon

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    so i just copy and paste it in my html file? and where the banner goes? I wanna have same banner but each time you someone clicks on it it goes to one of the URLs
     
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  9. spc

    spc Well-Known Member

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    @Nik555:

    You need to use php page, not html page. i.e. page with extension .php
    See the bold part in the below code...that's how you use banners in link.

    
$mylink[1] = '<a href="http://www.pegor.com">
[B]<img src="images/banner.jpg" width="468" height="60" alt="some_tex_there">[/B]</a>';
    Code (markup):
    Modify code of nastynappy to see image banners in all links using this method.
     
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  10. Nik555

    Nik555 Peon

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    so i make php file. then i put a banner on my html page, and under a banner i put a link to that php file , correct?
     
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  11. spc

    spc Well-Known Member

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    No, just rename your html page with php.

    say index.html will be index.php

    then in the body where you want to put the banner modify the code as

    
<body>
<div id=banner>
<?php
//Add as many links you want
$mylink[1] = '<a href="http://www.pegor.com">
<img src="images/banner1.jpg" width="468" height="60" alt="some_tex_here">
</a>';
$mylink[2] = '<a href="http://www.lifestinks.info">
<img src="images/banner2.jpg" width="468" height="60" alt="some_tex_here"></a>';
$mylink[3] = '<a href="http://www.mozilla.org"><img src="images/banner3.jpg" width="468" height="60" alt="some_tex_here"></a>';
//$mylink[4] = .....
//$mylink[5] = ....

// this will count your links itself and select a random one
$id = rand(1,count($mylink));

// this will display the random link
echo $mylink[$id];
?>
</div>
    Code (markup):
    don't forget to keep the php codes inside <? and ?>

    Hope it's perfect to understand now.
     
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  12. Nik555

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    i tried it with two links, but it only directs to the same no matter how often i click on it.

     
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  13. Nik555

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    actually it works now, but it works like that: it goes 5 times to 1 link and then 5 times to another, is it possible for it to work like
    1link,2nd link,3rd link and then all over, instead of just taking random link
     
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    happpy Well-Known Member

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    #14
    keep it simple guys

    <?
$links="http://google.com,http://yahoo.com,http://msn.com";
$linkx=explode(",",$links);
shuffle($linkx);
echo"$linkx[0]";
?>
    Code (markup):
     
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  15. Nik555

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    thanks, but where in that code i should put in the banner?

     
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  16. joebert

    joebert Well-Known Member

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    If permissions are setup on your server in a way that PHP can read/write files safely, this way will make it easier to change the URLs later.

    Create a file named "items.txt" and in that file put each of the items to be rotated on their own line.
    For your 5 links the file might look like

    <a href="http://www.one.com/?ref=me">One</a>
<a href="http://www.two.com/?ref=me">two</a>
<a href="http://www.three.com/?ref=me">three</a>
<a href="http://www.four.com/?ref=me">four</a>
<a href="http://www.five.com/?ref=me">five</a>
    Code (markup):
    Then in your page, assuming it's a PHP page or HTML is setup to be parsed as PHP, you place this anywhere you want the rotation to show.

    <?php
$items_file = 'items.txt';
$urls = file($items_file); array_push($urls, array_shift($urls)); echo trim($urls[0]);
file_put_contents($items_file, implode('', $urls));
?>
    Code (markup):
    That way you can use the same PHP everywhere you want it to happen, and changes made to "items.txt" are reflected in all of those places. That, and a plain text file is usually easier to deal with.
     
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  17. Nik555

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    what is ?Ref=me for?
    is it required?
     
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  18. joebert

    joebert Well-Known Member

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    Nah, the contents of "items.txt" can be anything you want it to be, just remember that each line is a new item.

    Also remember, if you put an empty newline at the end of the file you will end up with an empty item in the rotation.
     
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  19. Nik555

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    can you also specify where should i put image src ......
     
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    joebert Well-Known Member

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    You put anything you want rotated on its' own line.

    If you have something like this in your webpages now

    <a href="http://domai.com/"><img src="banner.png" alt="visit *"/></a>
    Code (markup):
    Then you will replace that with the PHP I posted earlier, and your "items.txt" might look like this to alternate between two banners.

    <a href="http://domai.com/"><img src="banner.png" alt="visit *"/></a>
<a href="http://example.com/"><img src="banner-2.png" alt="visit *"/></a>
    Code (markup):
     
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