Hi every knowledgable seniors here.

I've look all over the web, forum,tutorial here n there but still unable to find the exact guide! Ok..I try to explain what I'm trying to do...getting much headaches in this :-
1. I'm planning to get a reseller hosting account to host all my sites under 1admin panel(mainsite's admin panel) to simplified my tasks. The other sites will be set to use the main site's nameserver/IP. (eg ns1.mainsite.com, ns2.mainsite.com)
- mainsite (main admin panel)
- site1,
- site2,
- site3...so on


2. Then, I join 3ads network and get accepted. eg:-
- ads1,
- ads2,
- ads3.
(let's shorten the name and use these so I'll be clearer...apology cause I'm losing my direction here )


3. So, having these ads network code, I would like to rotate these ads1/2/3 across these sites with single admin panel from the main site. Eg.:-
- mainsite - display and rotating ads1, ads2, ads3
- site1 - also displaying and rotating ads1, ads2, ads3
- site2 - same as above
- site3 - same as above..and so on.


4. When visitor arrive to any of the sites, the ads rotation will be like in sequence of:-
- homepage - ads1
- 2nd page view - ads2
- 3rd page view - ads3...ad so on.


5. At the moment, I would only host all my sites in the reseller account. But does not rule out the possiblilities of getting paying customers in future. . And of course I wouldn't be displaying ads in their sites!


6. In order to seperate and manage such situation of mixed hosting type, I clearly need some applications to manage it. I've looked, searched..and found these 2applications (phpadsnew and iPanel). Both of them need "Mod_Layout to be installed on "root" or something like that, but I could get my host to do it for me.


7. So now, phpadsnew is more towards ads rotating, which suit my situation...but is it only applicable to 1site ads rotating only or could administer several sites in my situation? (I'm having hard time to digest the 75pages documentation ) If you've experience using it, could you kindly guide me on this particular area?


8. While for iPanel, it is more towards having the control of administering "my sites" and "paid account" (correct me if I'm wrong). It also could have straight forward or "Forced Ads" which in the sense help me to display ads across several sites with single admin panel. But I think it is unable to "rotate Ads" (Dear iHostDev, correct me if I'm wrong, my sincere apology).
- Their site http://www.ihostdev.com/ipanel.html
I tried to ask them about the documentation or guide but they replied that the guide is "not to be viewable for public" which I agreed as they need to protect their interest too). However, I didn't get a clear indication of "Yes" or "No" answer as to "Ads Rotating" part. (Maybe I didn't post a correct question...this my fault! I'll try to ask again if possible.)


9. ...this is where I'm stuck and lost my direction!


To sum it up, I would like to have rotating ads for my own sites and manage it under mainsite's admin. While at the same time do not display any ads for other type of hosted sites. I believe there should be a way to achive this if not how those "big" sites going to maximize their ads earning??!!


My question :- How should I go about it?


Sincerely.
nooby james

pheewww...I finally manage to compose this long post!! it tooks me almost 45minutes to get this post done up!

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I would recommend having a look at http://phpadsnew.com/

I've got it runing over three sites although only currently got 4 banners in there it is all centralised through one script and while it seemed a little complicated at first it turned out to be very simple after I'd had a good play around with it.

ps. I found out about it in a post on here

I've moved your thread to the Off Topic section since it doesn't appear to deal directly with forums.

I'm not entirely sure that phpAdsNew will work because it will manage ads on one site, but not multiple sites...as far as I know. You might want to ask this in some large webmaster forums as well...as the members there are more likely to run large networks than the members here, who typically run single forums.

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oh ya, about point 5. Was thinking and need to add :-
- There could also be possibility of offering "Free hosting" service to my members only but their sites got to help display my ads (of course I understand that I need to get approval from ads network prior to displaying the ads).
- To ensure that my ads are being display all the time, iPanel could help in the sense that it'll be of "forced ads" displayed on these sites without me having to check one by one. This is a plus point.

- Or is there another way to do it? could I do it with phpAdsNew too?

My apology, this post of mine is getting very long, get some coffee if your eyes are tired.

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As I said I have it running over three different sites with four banners. Each site rotates the three of the four banners that are linked to it (no point showing the sites own banner). And it is installed on a fourth site and not any of the three the banners display on.

Thz Bob for your kind enlightenment!

Thz greatly.

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Interesting...I wasn't aware that this could be done, as I kind of assumed that the invocation code that it spits out relies on the database...and would therefore need to be on the same server...is it just that simple Bob? You take the invocation code from phpAdsNew and place it on any site/any server and it works?

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The invocation code I'm using is in Javascript and doesn't call the database, it calls a php file from the site of the adsnews script is on and it does all the work. There are different methods for displaying the banners and the others may be different. I couldn't get them to work and settled on the Java as it did.


EDIT: Arne't you using this here Ryan or is it something else?

Yeah, we're using phpAdsNew...but I've never looked closely enough at the invocation code to see what it actually requires since I don't have the need for ads across multiple sites such as this.

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Was just wondering if it was the Javascript code you used or if you'd got one of the other options to work