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?