best alternative for D7 ? [#1437930]

Comment #1

rojesaga CreditAttribution: rojesaga commented 16 February 2012 at 05:55

I have not found a module that can replace it. For a site that I built, I use the taxonomy combined with a content type where I select which type of ad is. Each taxonomy points to a kind of advertisement that display in a block. Then with view I orginize the slideshows to display more than one ad per block. It hasnt the functionality and ease offered by the module, but is the best solution I've found. Its a lot of work.

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Comment #2

ogrygorash CreditAttribution: ogrygorash commented 16 February 2012 at 07:14

SimpleAds is pretty good: http://drupal.org/project/simpleads

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Comment #3

rojesaga CreditAttribution: rojesaga commented 16 February 2012 at 07:36

Thanks a lot...

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Comment #4

gbernier CreditAttribution: gbernier commented 10 March 2012 at 19:42

Does anyone know what the status of working on the D7 version is at all? I see the latest Dev is from Feb, 2011 which is not a promising state of affairs.

Thanks for pointing out the SimpleAds module ogrygorash.

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Comment #5

dufferin CreditAttribution: dufferin commented 13 March 2012 at 15:11

I think that Drupal main version (from 6 to 7 to 8) goes too fast compare to what module maintainer can provide.

I have website that I can't even think to upgrade to 7 because too many modules aren't ready.

Risky in long term?

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Comment #6

vinoth.3v CreditAttribution: vinoth.3v commented 8 March 2013 at 06:07

any update?

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Comment #7

Michael_Lessard_micles.biz CreditAttribution: Michael_Lessard_micles.biz commented 18 August 2015 at 19:58

Issue summary:

View changes

The Ad module was precious for me mostly because of the clear and direct statistics. I want my media supporters to know exactly how many views they get from banners. Getting statistics otherwise is hell in Drupal (Google Analysis has never really worked for me in Drupal, even with the special module for it).

Anyone have ideas or suggestions (alternatives) OR anyone have the Ad module working in D7 ? (i.e. my recent installation attempt was not a success)

Thank you

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Comment #8

Michael_Lessard_micles.biz CreditAttribution: Michael_Lessard_micles.biz commented 19 August 2015 at 20:44

Possible answers for the statistics part of ads :

With "Google Analytics" —actually mostly with the new version called Universal Analytics—, you can track impressions and clicks. This means you should install the Google Analytics module. I have not implemented this, but countless web pages explain that it is commonly done. Moreover, with the said module, you can filter out views provoked by Admins/Superuser for example.

There is also the Tether Stats module which can be used to track impressions and clicks. I have not tested it yet (will first try to implement Google's Universal Analytics for banner impressions/clicks).

Answer for the displaying of banners, images or any other content :
I will use Views Slideshow module (seems quite stable and well tested from my current tryout; just make sure you flush views caches once you installed all its components). Any other slideshow/rotating banner would do.

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Comment #9

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented 8 September 2015 at 16:41

I would like to add my question to this thread

I've used the "ad" module on Drupal 6 and it to this day it works well.

I'm now working on a different Drupal 7 website and would like to know if the 7.x-1.x-dev branch of the "ad" module is stable and good to go.

Any feedback and suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

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Comment #10

fizk CreditAttribution: fizk commented 8 September 2015 at 16:45

@doomed I've ported some of the Ad modules to 7.x-1.x, but not all of them. I recommend testing it on a test site.

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Comment #11

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented 8 September 2015 at 17:41

Thanks for the feedback fizk,

I'm mostly interested in knowing if image banners work well. (?)

At the moment i just need to show them randomly and in different blocks. Throw some basic statistics in.

I'm sure I won't be using the full package, just the main module and "image ad".

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Comment #12

Michael_Lessard_micles.biz CreditAttribution: Michael_Lessard_micles.biz commented 8 September 2015 at 17:54

Issue summary:

View changes

Answer : no, D7 version is not at all stable and I think the Image Ads are broken.

As you want rotating images, use Views Slideshow. It offers many options, styles, including actual "rotations". It can also "rotate" any other type of content, fields, etc.Views is easier to use in D7.

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Comment #13

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented 8 September 2015 at 18:56

Michael,

Wow, i'm surprised that it's not stable :/

As for rotating, i just meant to show them randomly on each page load.

Any alternatives, any other popular modules that work like the Ad module?

I checked Simple Ads ( https://www.drupal.org/project/simpleads ), and from the forum messages it seems that one is broken as well. I didnt feel like installing it at all.

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Comment #14

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented 9 September 2015 at 02:31

Well, since the Ad module doesnt work at all (problem with Upload core module missing or something) I had to try Simple Ads.
And from my tests on a local website, it actually seems to be working fine.

For the record:
- Drupal 7.38
- SimpleAds 7.x-1.9

The only problem i see, is that it only has two preset blocks and there's no way of creating more. There's one called "content ads" and the other called "sidebar ads". They are just names, you can actually move the blocks to any region in your theme. But still, this can be pretty limiting if you need to put advertisements (blocks) on more than two regions.

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Comment #15

fizk CreditAttribution: fizk commented 18 September 2015 at 11:53

@doomed Image ads should work: #2316177: Unable to enable Image Ads . There are still PHP errors that need to be fixed, so this is quite alpha right now, but the basic functionality works, including click counting.