[support] rotating views

[Christopher M. Jones]

No, stuck with D5 for now.

Bob Morse wrote:
> Have you tried Openx? http://drupal.org/project/openx (for D6 only).
> 
> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
>> 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?
>>>>>>
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