I've read the case study for pregnancy.org and that this module was used to serve doubleclick ads. I'm assuming you didn't use the ad module, and chose to generate the doubleclick javascript per page, using PDS to generate the correct tags to insert into the right places in the js, in much the same way that token works. Is that about right?

Why not simply put in the path from which the ads are called, in the src parameter? (I must be missing something...)

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Hi Roger, you're right, the Ad module wasn't used because I didn't want ads to be nodes and all I needed to do was have blocks with Javascript. I needed a way to store and build the arguments for the Javascript to include on each page, and that's where PDS fit in.

Why not simply put in the path from which the ads are called, in the src parameter?

You mean store the whole callback and just write it? That might have been fine if the advertisement company had mapped ads to Drupal pages exactly, but instead they had tags mapped to topics. PDS allows for values to be inherited from things like tax terms on the node. Also, various tags were the same for all blocks on the page, but other tags differed. A variable system was best.

If you have other questions feel free to reopen this.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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