banner rotator

[Cheap Bastard]

i was going to post this in the other topic, but since it's really a whole new question it warrants a topic of it's own...

I'd like to get some opinions on ad rotation software with:
- PHP,
- MySQL (requires just a table, not a full database. shouldn't
be a problem though)
- non-ssi AND non iframe/ilayer
- free or commercial (under $101 for unlimited or at least 2 licenses)

[kyle]

CHeck out phpadsnew it is written in php and used mysql... Can call banners with standard image tages, javascript and ssi...

Can display banners based on description or keywords..... very nice, can handle thousands of banner views/day

[Cheap Bastard]

hmm... define ''thousands''
this would be hundreds of thousands, right?
or at least tens of thousands...

[Graeme]

checkout http://www.phpscriptcenter.com/irotate.php3

[Cheap Bastard]

nice... have you stress tested it yet? If so, how many daily imps?

[kyle]

I have tested phpadsnew and it is able to handle 1 million + veiws/month

[Graeme]

It can do around 200,000 - 300,000 pageviews aday on a hosting account (depends on hosts server) before you would need to get a dedicated server, then it would depend on how good your server is, this is running the script over several banner sizes and zones

[Cheap Bastard]

nice... very nice:)

[Czar]

I agree with the above praise of phpAdsNew, buit have to also throw in a positive word for AdCycle, which is available on a 30-day free trial, with an $89 registration fee per install (of course, you can serve banners to several sites from the single install).

It uses MySQL, and is relatively processor-friendly. I've been using it for a few months to serve about 50,000 banners/day, and have had no problems with it being hosted on a shared server account as yet. I imagine that anything over, say, 200,000 requests/day would likely require a dedicated server, though.