Matt Miller wrote:
I have just joined this list, so forgive me as I break my cardinal rule of reaidng a list for a while before posting.
I am working on a banner ad rotation system for my Zope installation. To that end I am using a rather simple algorithm to determine which ad should be shown:
While not specifically solving your problem, have you looked at the Advertsising Banner Folder product? I am currently working on modifiying and extending it, but am running into some issues.
Each time an ad is selected, ads not shown have their "notshown" count incremented by 2. An ad is selected whenever the number of impressions remaining PLUS its "notshown" is the largest in the DB.
Hmmm sounds like that number could get quite large. Is this a method you are using for 'weighting' various banners? IOW, give certain banners a higher base notshown count? This is part of where I am working on in a banner product. -- In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900