Linking HREF and IMG SRC?

[Anon]

I'm trying to have a banner system that counts clicks & impressions, and can also be used on other servers, that don't have php (linking to my server), but their code will always be static, eg:

<A HREF="http://myserver/click.php?id=123">
<IMG SRC="http://myserver/view.php?id=123">
</A>

But the banners will be random, so I need the click.php to know which banner was clicked...

I know it's hard, but got to be possible. Maybe using cookies?

Any ideas?

[Anon]

btw, the id isn't the banner, it's a user id, that;s what they put in their page, and it has to generate a random banner, and redirect to the right url for that banner.

[Anon]

Any good to you?

<?
/*

AD_ROTATOR IN PHP3 
BY: MARK DONCHEK
E: [e-mail]
W: WWW.MARKDONLINE.COM
*/

$randomnumber = rand(0,x);

$include0 = "your_path/any_ad.inc"; 
$include1 = "your_path/any_ad.inc"; 
$include2 = "your_path/any_ad.inc"; 
$include3 = "your_path/any_ad.inc"; 
$include4 = "your_path/any_ad.inc"; 

if  ($randomnumber== "0") {
include ("$include0");

} else if ($randomnumber== "1") {
include("$include1");

} else if ($randomnumber== "2") {
include("$include2");

} else if ($randomnumber== "3") {
include("$include3");

} else if ($randomnumber== "4") {
include("$include4");

} else {

echo ("ERROR: A random num is being generated out of range, or not at all ");
}
?>

[Anon]

Where it has the line

include("$include1");

you could do this?

include("<a href=http://www.whatdomain.com><img src=$include1></a>");

[Anon]

Sorry, I don't think I was clear. The <A HREF etc. part is static, it's being called on a remote server, so the SRC in the IMG tag has to load a random banner, and remember which one it loaded, so if the link is clicked, it goes to the right place.

I just took a look at phpAds, which does this, but I'm trying to overcome the problem of if the user has more than one window open, and different banners display, with phpAds they both go to the same place when clicked.

I've fixed it with javascript, I just use:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://mysite/banner.js.php"></SCRIPT>

and a php file outputs some document.write statements with a random banner, but for the NOSCRIPT part, it looks like I'm stuck with phpAds method.