mod_adbanners: The OSDN Ad System

mod_adbanners is an Open Source solution for delivering ad banners in web pages. It includes an Apache module (mod_adbanners.c) which quickly selects ad banners to deliver with each web page as the web page is being delivered, and also includes collection of perl scripts and a CGI web interface for controlling ad rotation lists and ad stats.

How it works

When a web page is served mod_adbanners will randomly select a group of ads for that page, generate the HTML code for each ad, then store the HTML code for each ad in a temporary environment variable which can then be printed anywhere in a static or dynamic generated web page. Included in this distribution are the back-end perl CGI scripts for controlling ad delivery, reserving ads to certain pages, balancing ad rotation lists, setting run dates for each ad, impression limits for each ad,and a cron script for generating statistical summary logs.

Features:

Ad delivery (impressions) balanced according to impression limits and run dates
Multiple ads per page, custom ad sizes in each position
Rich media ad delivery (ads can be HTML tags or images)
Optional pages/visitors stats gathering and reporting system
Robust web interface to control ad delivery and stats reporting:
- Multiple user logins and variety of interface access levels
- Output ad stats reports as HTML, text delimited tables, or email
- Controls ads and stats across multiple web site from one interface
- Basic ad sales management system with invoices and notes system
- Display web traffic reports as tables, graphs, or text data export
Data is all stored in simple text format, transportable and reliable
Geo-targeting: Target ads according to visitor's network domain
Reserved Pages: Reserve ads to specific web pages

Install requirements:

UNIX web hosting environment:
- Apache web server
- perl, plus these perl modules from CPAN.org
  - Date::Manip
  - GD (just for web traffic graphs, optional)
- rsync or FTP daemon, if using multiple web servers
See the INSTALL file for steps on how to install these files.

mod_adbanners is free software:

This software was originally developed in-house by Kurt Gray at Andover.Net/OSDN for OSDN's own network of web sites and has now been released on the Internet as free software under the GPL software licence (read the COPYING file for more info about the terms of the GPL license).

Download mod_adbanners:

For the latest tarball v1.05 (released on May 10, 2001) just click here (~240 KB) or if you want the previous version v1.03 click here (~75 KB)

(FTP download removed, use http download)

(FYI: The latest code is not in CVS yet, use http download for latest code until this note goes away) For anonymous CVS download info click here and remember the modulename is mod_adbanners

Browse the mod_adbanners CVS repository.

Bugs, News, Mailing Lists, Etc

For bugs and tech support visit the mod_adbanners SourceForge project page

The mod_adbanners email discussion list modadbanners-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net

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