Advertisement Switching Script

[Paintball24]

Alright, I need some help with this.
I'm looking for a script that and switch between advertisements I have on my site. Now, this is the confusing part. Each ad has its own "script", so in order to make this work....ugh....I think this new script will have to render selected code at random. Hmm...

Did I explain this right?
Can anyone help?

Twey, please? (lol)

[blm126]

Hmm... what do you mean 'their own script'

[Paintball24]

I mean like the google ads. They have their own script that you insert into the website and volia, the ad appears.

[blm126]

This could be done in javascript but would be much easier server side. Do you have access to PHP?

[alexjewell]

I would love to learn how to do this too!
I have access to PHP.
Thanks.

[alexjewell]

found the answer! check out:
http://www.firethrottle.com/viewtut.php?id=42

[Paintball24]

Ah, see that's an image switcher. I need an advertisement switcher. Here's why I can't use this: I'm using Google Adsense. Google gives me a Javascript script to slip into my website for an advertisement to appear. This is the code for one:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5686021945884113";
google_alternate_color = "191919";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "404040";
google_color_bg = "191919";
google_color_link = "2370B6";
google_color_url = "2370B6";
google_color_text = "FFFFFF";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

This could be done in javascript but would be much easier server side. Do you have access to PHP?

Yes, I do.

[blm126]

Ok, then this can be pretty easy.

<?php
$code_list[] = 'Some code';
$code_list[] = 'Some other code';
$code_list[] = 'Some more random code';
shuffle($code_list);
echo $code_list[0];
?>

Yes this will work javascript to

[Paintball24]

Wow. Thanks man.
So how does this work? Does it have to be a .php file or can I work in HTML?

[Twey]

It has to be .php, and you have to have PHP enabled on your server.