[Zope] banner ad system, was how much resource?

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On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Bill Anderson wrote:
> 
> Methinks thou art confused, but only slightly.
me sorry, me look carefully next time.

> Understand completely.
> 
> I literally just came back from the couch (no, not _that_ one!, my
> programming couch ;) where I was working on the next version .. so lets
> see what we already agree on :)
>  
> > what phpads offers:(from the readme)
> > Summary:
> >     phpAds is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP3.
> >     Currently it can
> >     - manage multiple banners (any size) per client
> 
> Yup. Main part here is just the dtml/html for it. Well, that and choice
> of storage.
> phpAds stores all in an SQL database, right?

yes, and are you going to use sql in the future?  or just stay with zodb?  i
would think going with sql is better in the sense that most of us have that 2G
fs limit, and putting data in sql would help separate data from zodb.

> >     - send statistics to clients via email
> 
> On what kind of schedule? By request, or by cron-job type setup?
it's actually done by cron, and i would think you can do that easily.

> 
> >     - show random, pre-defined or HTML/image banners
> 
> Little more specific, if possible?
well, i guess you have it now, where you can weight the banner.  

> 
> So far, I believe the following are set for the next version (by
> mid-March if all goes well):
> 
> o Click tracking
> o Stats (Views, Clicks, Click-through ratio, views/clicks left)
> o Keywords
> o Ways to avoid ZODB growth for each view/click.
>

i'll be waiting for this eagerly.  BTW, i'd be glad to help in any ways i can. 
a little warning tho, i'm not an accomplished programmer, i wish i were, and
know only so much sql.  and i don't think i got good english!

thanks 

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