Agronesia

After a day’s worth of PHP hacking coupled with some swearing, I’ve finally finished a rudimentary ad manager! What does it do? Well, basically it rotates through a pool of ads. A life demo can be seen here. Refresh the demo page several times and see the ads magically rotating.

It’s called Yumeko AdManager because… Well, probably because it will be used on my Japanese learning site Yumeko. Because Google AdSense still don’t allow us to use it on Indonesian web sites.

This program is licensed under GPL 2 and you can download it here (there’s a documentation, yay!). I even made a special page for it here in case I’m inclined to update it.

Here are some of its features:

• Relative appearance rate of ads can be set
• Tracks appearance count
• Tracks click count
• Expiry date for ads can (uhm… must) be set

What’s obviously lacking is an interface to add and manage ads. Yes, you need to play around using tools such as PHPMyAdmin to add the database rows. But anyway it’s all explained in the documentation :).

Other than PHP, I’m also interested in learning more about this black horse JavaScript to make… ah, let’s call it “interactive programs”. But alas, there’s only so much hours in a day…