multiple adv

Good Day Gang,

I am updating and running multiple adv. on this site:

(http://www.)equesthomeloans.com

I am running this site as shtml

my code to pull down the file is:
<!--#include virtual="tinkle.php" -->

my tinkle file has the following code:

<?php
ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include ('ad_network.php');
echo $ad_network[0].' | '.$ad_network[1].' | '.$ad_network[2].' | '.$ad_network[3].' | '.$ad_network[4];
?>

and my ad_network.php as this code:

<?php
// Last update: Jan 21, 2005 8:51 am

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);
}
mt_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);
$ads_temp = explode ('|', $ads[0]);

$file = fopen($ad_file, 'r+');
if (flock ($file, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB, $would_block) && !$would_block) {
if ((count ($ads) < $ads_temp[3] + 1 && $ads_temp[0] + $ads_temp[5] < time()) || $ads_temp[0] + $ads_temp[4] < time()) {
$new_ad = file_get_contents ('http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?b=' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '&type=link');
if ($new_ad) {
$ads_param = explode ('<ad_param>' , $new_ad);
$new_ad = $ads_param[1];
unset ($ads_param[1]);
$ads_temp = explode ('|', $ads_temp[0] . '|' . $ads_temp[1] . '|' . $ads_param[0]);
} else {
$ads_param = array_slice ($ads_temp, 2, 4);
}
$ads[0] = time() . '|' . gethostbyname('validate.digitalpoint.com') . '|' . implode ('|', $ads_param);
if ($new_ad) {
$ads[] = $new_ad;
if (count ($ads) > $ads_temp[3] + 1) $ads = array_merge ((array)$ads[0], (array)array_slice ($ads, -$ads_temp[3]));
}
fwrite ($file, implode ('<ad_break>', $ads));
ftruncate ($file, ftell($file));
$ad_network[] = $new_ad;
}
flock ($file, LOCK_UN);
fclose ($file);
}
while (count ($ad_network) < 5) {
$ad_network[] = $ads[mt_rand(1,count($ads) - 1)];
}
foreach ($ad_network as $key => $ad) {
if ($ads_temp[1] == $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] || $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] == $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) {
$ad_network[$key] = str_replace ('" />', '" class="' . $ads_temp[2] . '" />', $ad);
} else {
$ad_network[$key] = str_replace ('" />', '">', $ad);
}
}
} 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);
}

?>

The good new is it works.

The bad news is the darn thing is running six adv. and most are duplicate with the first two running together.

Now, I know nothing about php. I mean Nada and took some experimenting to get the darn thing to do even this. So can someone pretty please tell me what am I doing wrong that needs to be fixed so the adv show up with just 5 unique displays. If you're feeling super nice, maybe copy and paste the right code so I don't screw that up?....lol

Thanks for your help!

Cheers

 

it loooks good to me. you might want to specify the full path to tinkle.php (/usr/local/apache/htdocs/tinkle.php or whereever your host directory is) - it could be that there are multiple tinkle.php's out there from your tinkering that are fouling things up.

Are you sure? When you first start showing ad's, there are a lot of repeats.

I don't see anything that would kick out 6 ads.

 

In your tinkle file (great name, btw), change this:

echo $ad_network[0].' | '.$ad_network[1].' | '.$ad_network[2].' | '.$ad_network[3].' | '.$ad_network[4];

Code (markup):

to this:

echo implode (' | ', $ad_network);

Code (markup):

And see what you get.

As far as the duplicates... You will always get some duplicates the first few times you refresh after the ad_network_ads.txt is cleared out. Just refresh a dozen times and it'll go away.

 

"When you first start showing ad's, there are a lot of repeats."

I'll second that. I don't think the non-unique ads are a problem.

As for the 6 ads...Check your html source code on the ads. My guess is that it is actually 5 ads, but one of them looks like 2 ads. I vaguely remember something similar a few weeks ago. that's the best I can come up with as the code looks good.

 

No, I'm looking at the site, and it's definately a 6th ad.

The only indicator I see is that the first one (the rogue ad) doesn't have a pipe after it. So we have:

Ad1Ad2 | Ad3 | Ad4 | Ad5 | Ad6

It makes me think there's something ELSE in the original page/template that is calling the ad_network.php file.

 

Maybe it's not an ad at all, but a link you have placed right before the include statement.

Post the source of your problem page, and a link to it so we can see a page that has the problem with both the source and resulting views.

 

OK, think I got it under control. Validate good.

What I think was happening was the tinkle file was calling up the the ad_network.php file which I assume was loading the first advertisement and why six kept showing up with the first two having no spacing.


this is the code I finally used in my Tinkle file to make it all good:
<?php
ini_set ("include_path", ini_get ("include_path") . ':../:../../:../../../:../../../../');
include ('ad_network.php');
echo ' | '.$ad_network[1].' | '.$ad_network[2].' | '.$ad_network[3].' | '.$ad_network[4];
?>

(I watched how to lose a guy in ten days last night. One of the little dogs nick names used during the movie was tinkle king....lol)

Thanks for all your input on this!

Cheers

 

Well I guess that's one way to take care of it. Sometimes it's better to use a hack than to spend 12 hours searching for a mistake. This is really a strange problem.