Has someone used phpads with eZ? If have, cuold you inform me how did you accomplish this. What has to be done and where...
I have to try to use all the help I can, ;) 'cause I don't have time right now to stop and think just one part of this site that I'm building... Please be kind and enlighten me ;) ...
I am using phpAdsNew, a newer and robust version by the same Author of phpAds (as far as I know). I invoque the banners with javascript remote invocation (a term defined in the documentation of phpAdsNew), So i have no problems all. The Javascript code is included in templates.
I am using also Advanced Poll but here I had to include calls from php directly, and show the results in a pop-up to bypass problems related to maintaining state.
Are there any other Ads systems out there, maybe some that can integrate with eZ reporting, etc.? phpAdsNew looks really good, has anyone done any integration work or tested it for issues?
Tony
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We have made a simple integration with phpadsnew. Just created a banner class with title (text line) and banner code (text field). In phpadsnew you can create an invocation code in javascript which you just paste into the banner code text field and in the template you just output the javascript from the banner code text field.
We are using phpadsnew for a number of sites and most recently an ezpublish site. As Ole has said the integration is really simple. We have added a 'advertising keyword' attribute to content classes that allows the publisher to influence what banners appear on a specific page.
It would be relatively easy to incorporate the statistics into ezpublish as these are stored in a database and can be read. Though is this something that you really want to do?
I think you are right. It doesn't make sense because phpadsmyadmin has a really nice admin interface. And - at the moment - it's not possible to integrate phpadsnew in ez3 without altering the source code of phpadsnew. (I mean a "real integration" without using javascript code)
I use phpads too. If I have more time, I will make a template operator to include banner code in ez3 without using javascript.
By the way, the documentation of phpadsnew is great.
Thanks for the info, the interface for the phpAdsNew is very good. The area where I would like to see the integration is from a single sign-on perspective. So you do not need to login to eZ and then the compaign mamager.
The datatype for the add campaign is a really good idea as well.
Thanks
Tony
Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood
Vision with Technology
Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development