By conniec on

HI all,

What I am looking for is a module I can input external links, categorize them and then display them on a rotating basis. I would love the complexities like the record keeping and date expiry like in the Ad module, but can live without it.

I've been through the whole list of mods and can't find anything like it. I've looked at rotating images, but can't store the links as images, so I can't figure out how to make that work either.

I have checked out the Ad module, which looks great, and have tried to figure out how to use for third party affiliate links like those from cj.com I also read in the forum that the ad mod really can't be used for ext links.

What I've ended up doing is making a block and copy/pasting the link into the body of the block until I can find a better way.

For those of you hosting external affiliate links, how have you done it? Lessons learned, please?

I'm very new to CMS systems and to Drupal, so I may have overlooked something very obvious. If I'm having a duh moment, please educate me!

All info on what works and what doesn't will be greatly appreciated.

Connie

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AlanT commented

Take a look at the OpenAds module. I think that may fill your need.

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conniec commented

Hi Alan, et. al.,

I took a look at at OpenAds and it looks like you can only use the module to implement ads served from the company OpenAds but not from other companies like CJ or Performics.

I've looked at Ad module again. I think I could use Text Ads and enter the provided html into the body for the third party ads and make it work if I didn't have to add a destination URL or a header.

Anyone know a way to make those fields NOT required? If you explain in code, please remember that I am practically illiterate in php.

Connie

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PRFB commented

Jeremy's excellent Ad module now has a sub-component called "HTML". This lets you paste in HTML code from, for example, Commission Junction.

It won't track the clicks for you, but CJ does that anyway.

http://drupal.org/project/ad

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giorgio79 commented

guix is working on this I believe

http://drupal.org/node/399436

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