How to create Simple PHP Link Rotator

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oh i see, thanks a lot for your help.
Do you by anychance know the code that shows banner based on location, for example i wanna show a certain banner only to US and UK visitors.

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Nik555 said: ↑

oh i see, thanks a lot for your help.
Do you by anychance know the code that shows banner based on location, for example i wanna show a certain banner only to US and UK visitors.
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You could use geocode to find out what country they are from based on the ip. With regards to rotating banner if you ever go further you should store the banner information in a database then select using the RAND() function. Obviously that is basic in itself, web apps today that display banner ads go as far as how many times to show during a specific time of the day and or by location etc etc.

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you could use this guide to get the user's country info :

http://www.pegor.com/tutorials/php-mysql-tutorials/redirecting-users-according-to-their-country-tld

and make some edits to work as your banner rotator script.

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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>
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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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it isn't working for some reason

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it isn't working for some reason
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List the steps you took.

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How to create Simple PHP Link Rotator

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