Geek. I would love to have this work this way.
Child, children, boys, girls, at home mom, brats, kids
goto this url....

and imagine there was more than 1 url.

say the kids allways have fun. Kids will be kids.

I would like the URL to be differnt for each kid. (if I had three) If I had only 2 lets say then two will have the same and one differnt.

can this be done with the hack you have now?

The Geek

You could always do what the text ad places do. Insert an image...
like gal.gif?ad=1

Yea, that works for tracking clicks - but cant get how many times the link appears if you know what I mean...

Unless... you mean have like an image in the popup text like <img scr="www.mysite.com/image.php?id=5"> kind of thing. Not sure how well it would work though.

I mean like..

<a href=mydomain.com/forums/gal.php?id=1>WORD</a><img scr="mydomain.com/galimage.php?id=1">

Thats how linkshare.com does the ads for affiliates. Click the link and it counts a click the loading of the image counts the impressions.

the image would be a 1x1 trans. pixel image...

I don't quite understand what the "categories" are. Can someone please explain this?

The categories allow you to categorize the links for easier management (only used in admincp).

THeir real power lies in the ability to override the global replacement text.
So, you can have 2 categories, 1 that produces a standard link and 1 that produces popups.

At the end of the day - you dont really have to use them - but it CAN make things much more flexible.

Popups? How? Also, what's the ordinal thing?

ordinal is the order of replacement that takes place.
so ebay sucks should have a lower ordinal than ebay otherwise ebay sucks wont get linked as by the time ebay sucks comes around - the ebay has already been changed (if that makes sens ;) )

Instructions for the poppup replacment code is in the readme. Just put it in the replacement box of the global, category, or item replacment box.

HTH's