Help with a banner exchange script

[Anon]

Hey all,

I\'m having a little trouble with a banner exchange script I\'m trying to
right (still in the planning). Members will have to copy a html fragment to
their site in the form of:

<a href=\"www.host.com/bannerlink.php?username=name\">
<img src=\"www.host.com/bannerview.php?username=name\">
</a>

The problem is.. how can I synchronize between the two? Meaning, how do I
make sure when somebody clicks the link (the a href) it shows the same
banner the <img> bit is displaying? I thought maybe I could store the IP in the databae (for a limited time) and check each click against the database, but that would cause problems if I get 2 requests from the same client. I\'m using PHP3 and MySQL. Any ideas
would be appreciated.

[Anon]

Try this script out and tell me if it fetches the image 🙂) 'cause as far as I know, it will not... Or Pretty Pretty Pretty please tell me how u have done it so, that it fetches the image... 🙂)

Dolce

P.S. It is all dead simple man, make sure the IDs match 🙂

[dolce]

AAAAAAAAAAA... finally i have a solution

<?php
Header("Content-Type: image/gif");
$fn=fopen("banner1.gif","r");
fpassthru($fn);
?>

[Anon]

That isn't the problem, I know how to send the banner. The problem is I don't know how to make sure, when somebody clicks on a banner, that he is taken to the appropriate website. Sorry if this was unclear in my previous post.

[dolce]

That aint hard... in the database, store a link together with the banner id, and simply output the link, along with the id to the HTML HREF tag

printf ("<a href=http://%s><img src=banner.php?bannerid=%s&somerandomnumber=1234></a>",$result[b_link],$result[b_id]);

//the random number is there to prevent image caching 🙂)

[dolce]

OR... make some kind of a router on your site (to store the click rater)... router.php... will retreive the link from the DB following the banner ID, increment the number of clicks by one and output this to the header

header("Location: somelocation.html");