Re: banner exchange, how to?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:27:14 -0800, Ed Lazor (osmosis@atfantasy.com) wrote: >Hi =) > >I'd like to setup a banner exchange with some friends. Some of them >don't >have PHP access, so I'm trying to come up with something that will >work for >everyone. I checked one site that's running a banner exchange and >saw them >using a cgi script like this: > ><a >href="http://www.site.com/exchange.cgi?ad=NonSSI&page=XX"> this script logs the clickthrough and redirects to the page using header("Location: $url") ><img >src="http://www.site.com/exchange.cgi?id=siteB&page=XX"> this script logs the impression and redirects (or passes thru) to the banner it's really not very hard you can do the whole thing in about 20 lines of code. ></a> > >Looking at that, it suggests the cgi script is some how sending >image data >to be used for displaying the banner ad. Then, on top of that, it's >some >how routing the visitor to the correct location when they click on >the >ad. I don't see how they are doing it and figured I'd ask here to >see if >anyone has any ideas. > >If you're not sure of how they did it, any ideas on how to >accomplish what >I'm after? > >I came across another site that had the following code and some how >they >have it working as well. It would be cool to figure out how they >did it. > ><IFRAME >SRC="http://www.lemnet.com/banners/show/?user=qatlantis" >HEIGHT="77" WIDTH="470" SCROLLING="no" MARGINHEIGHT="0" >MARGINWIDTH="0" >FRAMEBORDER="0"></IFRAME> ><ILAYER >SRC="http://www.lemnet.com/banners/show/?user=qatlantis" >HEIGHT="77" WIDTH="470"></ILAYER> <br> <br> > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list- >admin@lists.php.net