Multiple Ads

I've read through all of the previous posts and tried all solutions. Still to no avail. I'm getting multiple duplicate ads. Here's what I've got for my ad_network.php file:

<?php

if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
function file_get_contents($url) {
$handle = fopen($url, 'r');
$string = fread($handle, 4096000);
fclose($handle);
return $string;
}
}

if (!function_exists('make_seed')) {
function make_seed() {
list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
return (float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000);
}
srand (make_seed());
}

if (!isset($_SERVER)) $_SERVER = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;

$ad_file = 'ad_network_ads.txt';
for ($i = 0; $i <= 11; $i++) {
$p = substr ('../../../../../../../../../../', 0, $i * 3);
if (file_exists ($p . $ad_file)) {
$ad_file = $p . $ad_file;
break;
}
}

if (is_writable ($ad_file)) {
$ads = file_get_contents ($ad_file);
$ads = explode ('<ad_break>', $ads);

if (count ($ads) < 401 || $ads[0] + 900 < time()) {
$new_ad = file_get_contents ('http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?s=' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '&type=link');
$ads[] = $new_ad;
$ads[0] = time();
if (count ($ads) > 401) unset ($ads[1]);
if ($new_ad) {
$file = fopen($ad_file, 'r+');
if (flock ($file, LOCK_EX)) {
fwrite ($file, implode ('<ad_break>', $ads));
ftruncate ($file, ftell($file));
flock ($file, LOCK_UN);
}
fclose ($file);
}
$ad = end ($ads);
} else {
$ad = $ads[rand(1,count($ads) - 1)];
}
$ad_network[] = $ad;
while (count ($ad_network) < 5) {
$ad_network[] = $ads[rand(1,count($ads) - 1)];
}
} 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 end ($ad_network);
}

?>

and here's what I've got for my php code:

<?php
ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include ('ad_network.php');
echo implode (' ', $ad_network);
?>

Am I missing something?

 

Works for me, out of the box as per the original instructions...

<?php
ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include ('ad_network.php');
include ('ad_network.php');
include ('ad_network.php');
include ('ad_network.php');
include ('ad_network.php');
echo "<p>Some other internet browsing ideas:";
echo ''.$ad_network[0].' / '.$ad_network[1].' / '.$ad_network[2].' / '.$ad_network[3].' / '.$ad_network[4].'</p>';
?>

 

Check out this one: http://www.blueridgelighting dot com/resources/resources.html

 

Have you touched the ad_network file? I left that as is... Might then be server settings or whatever it is (beyond my comprehension). Or that Finance person has got an afwul lot of weight...

Could also be that the 'cache' hasn't populated properly just yet.

 

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's a Windows platform. Not a single ad is in the ad_network_ads.txt file

 

I thought I was (27th Nov files) but obviously not because when escaping the other 4 includes only one shows up... Oh well, it must be updating faster than a cat can scratch it's ass...

 

Just double checked the write permissions. It wasn't set so I'll give it a little bit and check the txt file again. Thanks for the help!

 

I did that and now it's showing ads just fine in the ad_network_ads.txt. I still can't figure out the duplicate multiple ads displaying though.