[support] rotating views

[Christopher M. Jones]

Ok, all points well taken. Since you handle lots of ads, maybe you can 
give me some advice for how else to proceed. We have a directory of 
service providers on our site. The provider record is a cck type with 
geocoded address. The results are displayed using Views, using the gmap 
proximity search.

Now they want to sell ads by location, so that providers' ads are 
displayed on searches that return results within a certain proximity of 
them.

I thought this might be doable by building the ad block as a View with a 
proximity argument, same as the actual search results. Thus my interest 
in views for this task.

I thought to chuck Advertisement for two reasons: first, I can't see a 
way to do the above with it, though it does have geoip. Maybe I should 
just convince the client to do things that way, instead. But aside from 
that, we're having problems with the flash_ad module, which doesn't seem 
to track clicks properly. I've read the big thread on that topic 
(reference escapes me) but I just haven't had a chance to try out all 
the patches and combinations of patches that are mentioned there. The 
sum of shortcomings seemed to suggest to me that we wanted to look 
elsewhere.

Any suggestions?


Ronald Ashri wrote:
> Hi Christopher - we handle lots of ads on our websites and Views would 
> not be the way to go for the critical ads - you only have the random 
> feature which is not something that provides any guarantees in fairness 
> across the same day, etc.
> 
> I also don't know to which extend it is worth creating a view of banners 
> and then rotating them - views is really best suited for results that 
> can be cached to a certain extend - especially on sites that are visited 
> often.
> 
> Given that code is needed the best at this point is probably a custom 
> module that resolves your specific problem.
> 
> Just out of curiosity why do you want to stop using the Advertisement 
> module?
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 
> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
>> Hmm. Yes, for starters. But since this is for ads, it's important to be
>> able to guarantee the advertiser a certain number of views per page
>> load. So I'm not sure random would fly. And now I'm thinking that I
>> probably need some code in there to get certain ads displaying more
>> often than others. So maybe I really do need to write this code.
>>
>> John Callahan wrote:
>>    
>>> Could you create a view that displays only one item and sorted randomly?
>>>
>>> - John
>>>
>>>
>>> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
>>>      
>>>> I'm looking for a way to rotate views. I've seen "Views Rotator", but it
>>>> doesn't look like it does exactly what I want. I need the view to rotate
>>>> for each time a page is loaded, while views rotator rotates on the same
>>>> page via jquery.
>>>>
>>>> What I'm after is a way to replace the advertisement module using views
>>>> and click filter. A different ad should show each time the user loads a
>>>> page. I'm thinking that I need to set a cookie to hold the incremented
>>>> offset, and pull that value into the view whenever it is called. I can
>>>> write this code, but I'd rather drop a module in and call it done.
>>>> Anybody know of any thing that will do this for D5.x?
>>>>
>>>>