How do I target ads to specific forums?

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by ski diva

Yes.

Here's an example of the code:

Replace the two instances of "zone:3" with:

zone:<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == FORUMID">ZONENUMBER<else />3</if>

To do this with multiple forums:

zone:<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == FORUMID">ZONENUMBER<else /><if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == FORUMID2">ZONENUMBER2<else />3</if></if>

[ski diva]

Thanks, Dismounted, but this doesn't seem to work; all it seems to do is remove the ad from all the forums instead of allowing me to deliver a specific ad to a specific forum.

I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is.

And tobybird: I'm not trying to do contextual advertising. It's more straightforward than that; what I want to do is have the ads vary by forum. For example, if there's a "gardening" forum, I want to have a specific gardening ad there. If there's a "cooking" forum, the ad would be different. Or maybe have I'd have all the forums with the same ad, except for one.

HELP!!!!!

[Dismounted]

You need to create multiple zones and replace the capitalised words in the code I gave you.

[ski diva]

Let me try to restate my problem, so that I can take advantage of the help you're trying to give me!

All of my forums draw from the same template. There are a dozen different forums, to each of which I would like to deliver a specific banner. The Cooking forum gets a Cooking ad. The Ratkilling forum gets a Ratkilling ad. And so on.

Right now, I can only deliver the same ad (or range of ads) to all forums. Which is fine if I have an advertiser who sells both Cooking and Ratkilling equipment.

How can I specify which goes where?

[Dismounted]

You need to setup multiple zones to match the forums and use the code I gave you to assign a different zone to each forum.

[ski diva]

Sorry to be so dense about this (you're being so helpful), but I must be doing something wrong. I established another zone and put the invocation code for it in the forumdisplay template, below the code for the first zone. Then I changed the invocation code in the first zone, as you suggested, and all that happens is I get the same ad going to all forums (the one I wanted to target to a specific forums). Maybe you could take a look and let me know what I'm doing wrong? I'd appreciate the help:

<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ',';
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);

document.write ("<" + "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
document.write ("http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adjs.php?n=" + phpAds_random);
document.write ("&amp;what=zone: <if condition=”$foruminfo [ ‘forumid’ ] == id:11”>zone:7<else />3</if>");
document.write ("&amp;exclude=" + document.phpAds_used);
if (document.referrer)
document.write ("&amp;referer=" + escape(document.referrer));
document.write ("'><" + "/script>");
//-->
</script><noscript><a href='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adclick.php?n=a6409d73' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adview.php?what=zone: <if condition=”$foruminfo [ ‘forumid’ ] == id:11”>zone:7<else />3</if></if>&amp;n=a6409d73' border='0' alt=''></a></noscript>

<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://www.theskidiva.com/openads/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ',';
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);

document.write ("<" + "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
document.write ("http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adjs.php?n=" + phpAds_random);
document.write ("&amp;what=zone:7");
document.write ("&amp;exclude=" + document.phpAds_used);
if (document.referrer)
document.write ("&amp;referer=" + escape(document.referrer));
document.write ("'><" + "/script>");
//-->
</script><noscript><a href='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adclick.php?n=a9afbf66' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adview.php?what=zone:7&amp;n=a9afbf66' border='0' alt=''></a></noscript>

Edited a little bit later:

I changed the code to the following:

zone:<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == 11">7<else />3</if>

and now I'm getting both ads (side by side) in all forums. I only want the ad that's linked to zone 7 in one of the forums (in this case, id:11). The rest of the forums get the ad that's linked to zone 3

Any ideas?

[Dismounted]

<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ',';
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);

document.write ("<" + "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
document.write ("http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adjs.php?n=" + phpAds_random);
document.write ("&amp;what=zone:<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == 11">7<else />3</if>");
document.write ("&amp;exclude=" + document.phpAds_used);
if (document.referrer)
document.write ("&amp;referer=" + escape(document.referrer));
document.write ("'><" + "/script>");
//-->
</script><noscript><a href='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adclick.php?n=a6409d73' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adview.php?what=zone:<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == 11">7<else />3</if>&amp;n=a6409d73' border='0' alt=''></a></noscript>

<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://www.theskidiva.com/openads/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ',';
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);

document.write ("<" + "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
document.write ("http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adjs.php?n=" + phpAds_random);
document.write ("&amp;what=zone:<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == 11">7<else />3</if>");
document.write ("&amp;exclude=" + document.phpAds_used);
if (document.referrer)
document.write ("&amp;referer=" + escape(document.referrer));
document.write ("'><" + "/script>");
//-->
</script><noscript><a href='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adclick.php?n=a9afbf66' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.XXXXXXX.com/openads/adview.php?what=zone:7&amp;n=a9afbf66' border='0' alt=''></a></noscript>

[ski diva]

Sorry to say this didn't work, either.

Any other ideas? I really need some help!

[Dismounted]

What happens?

[ski diva]

I get both ads side by side in all the forums, rather than one ad in all forums exccept one where it'd be replaced by the other ad.