
    phpAdsNew 2
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    An ad server and banner management system written in PHP


    Version 2 beta 7
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    THIS IS A EXPERIMENTAL BETA VERSION AND MAY NOT BE 
    STABLE ENOUGH FOR USE IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT.
    THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS COMPLETELY AT YOUR OWN RISK!


    
    Copyright (C) 2000-2002
	Niels Leenheer 	   <niels@creatype.nl>
	Matteo Beccati     <matteo@beccati.com>

	Wim Godden 	   <wim@godden.net>
	Phil Hord 	   <phil@phord.com>
	Noor Dawod         <noor@COMRAX.COM>
	Cedric Fontaine    <cfontaine@spidmail.net>
	Michael Harvey 	   <mike@ve-studio.com>
	Stefan Morgenroth  <dandra@users.sourceforge.net>


    Documentation written and maintained by:
	Niels Leenheer 	   <niels@creatype.nl>


    Based on phpAds created by Tobias Ratschiller <tobias@dnet.it>
    Copyright (C) 1999-2000 


    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    In addition, as a special exception, TOMO <groove@spencernetwork.org> 
    gives permission to link the code of this program with the FTP library 
    (or with modified versions of LIB-FTP that use the same license as LIB-FTP), 
    and distribute linked combinations including the two.  You must obey 
    the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used 
    other than LIB-FTP.  If you modify this file, you may extend this exception 
    to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If 
    you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

    In addition, as a special exception, Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>
    gives permission to link the code of this program with the XML-RPC library 
    (or with modified versions of XML-RPC that use the same license as XML-RPC), 
    and distribute linked combinations including the two.  You must obey 
    the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used 
    other than XML-RPC.  If you modify this file, you may extend this exception 
    to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If 
    you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.



    Requirements: 
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    PHP 4.0 or higher 	 (4.2.0 recommended)
    MySQL 3.22 or higher (3.23 with InnoDB recommended)

    If you want to run phpAdsNew on a PostgreSQL server you should
    take a look at phpPgAds, which is a port of phpAdsNew to PostgreSQL,
    made by Matteo Beccati. phpPgAds requires PHP4.
    The phpPgAds project can be found at: 
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgads/
       
         
    Summary:
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    phpAdsNew is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP.
    Currently it can
    - manage multiple campaigns per advertiser
    - manage multiple banners (any size) per campaign
    - manage multiple zones per publisher
    - Link banners or campaigns to different zones
    - view daily, weekly, monthly, overall and summary statistics
    - send statistics to advertisers via email
    - use HTML (Rich media), GIF, JPEG, PNG and Flash banners
    - use banners stored on an external server (linked) or
      store banner through the admin interface in the 
      MySQL server or on a ftp server.
    - integrate banner networks with your own banners
    - show random, pre-defined or HTML/image banners
    - supports multiple keywords for groups of banners
    - supports conditional keywords
    - activate and deactivate single banners
    - show banners based on filters: user-agent, accept-language, day-of-week, IP masks, domain, source page, time
    - Set a target number of impressions for a campaign
    - Perform campaign/banner weighing
    - Target banner clicks to frames
    - Multi-lingual and support for right-to-left languages, like Arabic
 

    Download:
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    You can get the latest version at http://www.phpadsnew.com


    Credits:
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    Kyle Cordes <Kyle@kylecordes.com>, Weston Bustraan <weston@infinityteldata.net>,
    Jörg Legarth, Brian <brian@cooltext.com>, Robert Allen <zircote@excite.com>,
    Ben Schumacher <bs@cyalchemy.com>, Leonid Igolnik - LiM <lim@israel.net>,
    Philip Gabbert <pgabbert@exactis.com>, Ralf Eggert <ralf@in-greece.de>,
    Niels Schoot <nschoot@users.sourceforge.net>, Martin Braun <martin@braun.cc>,
    Vivian Girel, René Friedrich <rene.friedrich@web.de> and many more.

    XML-RPC library:
    Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>

    FTP library:
    TOMO <groove@spencernetwork.org> 

    Occasional bugfixes and support: 
    Manuel Lemos, Boaz Yahav, Roy Nasser, Mark Maggalet, Ben Schumacher.
    And all the rest who helped.


    Support:
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    Questions about phpAdsNew should be directed to the forums. More
    information about it can be found on phpAdsNew's homepage. Bug reports
    and questions related to the develpment of phpAdsNew are also welcome
    on the site. Please read the manual before you ask questions!

    http://www.phpadsnew.com
    

