who can answer this one? - how to bring an image on a page like a banner rotator does?

fairhousing posted this at 22:48 — 23rd August 1999.

Joined: Mar 1999

hello:

i'm trying to make a simple ad tracker for my site. therefore, how do i write the part of the script that will put the banner on an existing html page by the script being called from a <img src) tag, like webadverts and all the other ad rotators do? i've tried everything i can think of and just get a broken image.

thanks in advance for the help

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anti posted this at 04:28 — 24th August 1999.

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Joined: Jan 1999

Hi,
seems polpus was faster this time.

He's absolutly right.

DON'T serve the image directly via the cgi. That will increase
your server-load dramatically and will you get surely kicked if you have a cheap host.

btw:
This way the "location" can even be cached by the browser.

ciao
Anti

webmasterspub posted this at 17:03 — 24th August 1999.

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Joined: May 1999

I'm just a newbie, so I have no idea. But when I'm trying to make something and I have no clue how to do it, I download a script that does what I want to do and study it.

I usually try to find a small script because they are a lot easier to study and figure out what's going on.

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Anonymous posted this at 18:25 — 24th August 1999.

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Fairhousing:

Just make the script redirect to the image url. Example code:

$url = "http://www.yourdomain.com/image.gif";
print "Location: $url\n\n";

Regards,
Federico

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