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Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by yonnermark, Nov 10, 2004.

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  1. #1
    Here's the url (ads should be at the bottom before all the piano-related links):
    www.bedroomtalent.com/guests/

    Here's the code I'm using:
    <?php
    ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
    include ('ad_network.php');
    echo $ad_network[0];
    ?>

    It used to work fine but I just got an email saying I'd failed validation because the ads weren't showing on the above guestbook page.

    Any clues?
    thanks
    mark
     
    yonnermark, Nov 10, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    The code is there, but it's not being parsed as PHP. If you look at the source, it simply spits it out as literal text. If it's already a PHP file and within the <?php tags, try taking out the opening and closing PHP tags.
     
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  3. yonnermark

    yonnermark Peon

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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    Well, for whatever reason the portion of the page that the PHP code is in is not being evaluated as PHP. Not sure why since I can't get at the source... but if the PHP code isn't in the PHP file itself (like it's in an include or something), that would be a good place to start looking.
     
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  5. yonnermark

    yonnermark Peon

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    Thanks Shawn
    Would you mind if I PM'd you the admin user/pass? I have no idea what is causing this. The problem seems to have generated itself, I haven't touched the ads for weeks but today I got a failed validation error. Now my ads are disabled across the network (I think) and I'm clueless as to how to fix it.

    Any idea why the problem only just emmerged?

    thanks
    mark
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Uh... actually I don't want to touch anyone's servers/sites. :)
     
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    g00gl3r Well-Known Member

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    I think I am having the same problem with my forum software matey... parhaps we could help each other?
     
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  8. yonnermark

    yonnermark Peon

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    Any other suggestions then Shawn?
    We've verified that the code is fine, I've tried it with php open/close tags with no joy. The ads used to parse fine.

    any clues?
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Sorry, I don't know... the best thing to do would be to have someone with PHP experience get into the guts of that script and see what's up.
     
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    g00gl3r Well-Known Member

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    the alternative is to remove the ads :(
     
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  11. yonnermark

    yonnermark Peon

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    hi google, did you fix your problem on your forum? Any joy?
    Would I have to remove the ads from the whole site? or can I somehow tell the system not to include my guestbook?

    thanks
    mark
     
    yonnermark, Nov 12, 2004 IP
  12. yonnermark

    yonnermark Peon

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    Would I have to remove the ads from the whole site? or can I somehow tell the system not to include my guestbook?

    thanks
    mark
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #13
    The ads would need to be site-wide, so if part of your site is not able to run them (for whatever reason), it wouldn't do any good to put it on other parts of the site.
     
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    yonnermark Peon

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    Right, OK so what is a workaround here? How about...

    1. Link to my guestbook (where the ads aren't working) using a javascript link which your spider (?) can presumably not follow. Is that OK?

    2. Delete my account. How could I do that?

    3. Find out why the ads suddently don't appear on the guestbook.

    thanks
    mark
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    All of those are options... as far as deleting your account, you don't need to do that as the validater will pick it up automatically.
     
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    thanks. I'll see what I can do
     
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