Free Rotating Ad Script in PHP

Rotating Advertisement Script in PHP

using javascript with the php ad rotation script

With this PHP script, you'll rotate ads in random order on your website. This ad rotation script can handle banner advertisements, text-based ads, etc. Reload this page to see this banner change:

First, create a file with a name like adverts.php and have this at the top:

For each of your advertisements, you'll first write out the ad's code, and then increase the banner counter, like this:

For the example below, let's do a 3-banner rotation. Note that every " in your ad code needs to be "escaped" with a slash mark in front of the quote mark, like this: \"

Next, we get the total number of ads, and if there are more than one, we'll randomly pick one of them. (If less than one, we automatically pick the first advertisement. This may seem like a stupid feature for a random advert generator, but it could happen if you drop non-performing affiliates or if paid-inclusion ads expire.)

That's the end of the adverts.php file.

Now, your webpage showing the ad first needs to include this script, then show the ad, like this:

That's all!

Troubleshooting tips for the Ad Rotation PHP Script

Parse error: If you get a parse error, first check all quotemarks in the ad code. Each should look like this: \"

Same ads in a row? If you reload quickly, that can happen. However, check the code. Do you start with $bannerCounter = 1; at the top? Did you forget to put $bannerCounter++; after every $bannerCode[$bannerCounter]? Also, if you have too few advertisements, you may find that the first one isn't shown as often. What I do, if I only have two ads, is double them -- just copy/paste all of the $bannerCode[$bannerCounter] code again, to turn the 2 ads into 4. Alternatively, you could join affiliate groups to get more ads.

Pages are .html, not .php If your pages are .html, you have two alternatives:

If you're on an Apache server, you probably have ftp access to your .htaccess file. You can force the server to treat the .html file as .php. Download your server's .htaccess file, and add these three lines for each .html page; in the example, the page is index.html:
<Files index.html>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
No access to .htaccess, or getting server 500 errors? Then use JavaScript with the PHP ad rotation script:
1. Important: For this option, each $bannerCode[$bannerCounter] code must be one line only. Remove every "line break" between $bannerCode[$bannerCounter]=" and the final "
  Confused? Whereever you pressed return or enter, just use your backspace delete keys to remove that invisible character.
2. At the bottom of adverts.php, add these two lines:
3. On your .html files, don't use these:
  Use these lines instead:
4. It should work fine now. But if you have blank ads, it means that you still have some line breaks in the ad description. See step 1.