Asking opinions on ad management programs

[Aaron Vegh]

PHPAdsNew is the premier open source ad serving solution, written in
PHP and meant to work with MySQL. It's a snap to install and setup. If
either of these companies have PHP developers already, customizing
functionality should be fairly trivial.

The system is surprisingly well-documented as well, and you'll need it
to get accustomed to the concepts involved. In all, it's a great
system that rivals those that you'd pay for.

http://phpadsnew.com/two/

Cheers,
Aaron.


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:28:17 -0500, Bill Mudry <billmudry-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Life is strange at times. I have been without work for a few months yet
> yesterday I was offered opportunities to work with two prior employers
> in one day :-).
> 
> Ironically, the theme for needs for both clients is quite similar. Both
> have websites on which they expect their income to come through
> placing ads. I advised them that they really should have ad
> management programs integrated with their websites. Both run
> on Linux/Unix accounts and both have had programmers using PHP
> and MySQL for database management.
> 
> One client has one website of interest with the topic of information
> on wood from around the world. The other has a series of websites
> with a much broader target of sectors with an interest in accepting
> almost any topic.
> 
> Have any of you had recent experience or opinions on the many
> ad management programs?
> 
> Unless there are compelling reasons for needed features on
> program that require payment, we might as stay with open systems
> programs/scripts with their wonderful price of $0. I would pick PHP
> written scripts over others although there is no formal reason others
> could not be used ---- again, if there were advantages to using them
> (eg. Perl, Python?).
> 
> I thought it prudent to open a discussion on what the latest is on
> ad management. Some of the criteria would include:
> 
>         - is the install clean and easy? Could I do the installation
>           and configuration myself? We would have to find in both
>           cases if the web hosts would allow the programs to run.
> 
>         - How easy is it to use for minimal computer, none technical
>           people to use? How user friendly is it?
> 
>         - How many features does it offer?
> 
>         - What degree of automation and integration does it offer?
>           That can vary from package to package. Some will even
>            link to an accounting system, some not for instance.
> 
> I look forward to your thoughts.
> 
> Bill Mudry
> Mississauga
> 
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