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Advertiser And Publisher Registration Module With All Permissions

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:31:41 +0000

I want to create Advertiser and publisher registration module with all permissions.......how can I create them..

Cannot Update New Table

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:44:56 +0000

Hi,

I´ve created a new plugin with a new table.
I can insert data in this table, but it´s not possible to update data.
I tried this:

CODE

      $doEditItUser = OA_Dal::factoryDO('myusertable');
      // Set the ID of the user
      $doEditItUser->userId = $_GET['id'];
      // Find the campaign
      $doEditItUser->find();
      if ($doEditItUser->getRowCount() == 1)
      {

          // Fetch the campaign
          $doEditItUser->fetch();
          // Update the required field(s)
          $doEditItUser->street = $_POST['street'];
          // Perform the update
          $result = $doEditItUser->update();
      }

But If I do this update I get the PEAR error:

QUOTE

DB_DataObject Error: update: No Data specifed for query userId = 10 , street = 'strase' , zip = '12345' , city = 'Stadt' , website = 'www.domain.de' , company = 'firmenname' ,

What does this error mean? Whats wrong?

Setbannertargeting

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:50 +0000

XMLRPC , JAVA, V1 API

String targetingRules[][] = {{"or", "Site:Source", "==", "Aviation"},{"or", "Site:Source", "==", "Continental"}};
Object[] params = new Object[] { sessionId, 5, targetingRules};
final Boolean id = (Boolean)client.execute("setBannerTargeting", params);

passing it as string array from java but it says " Fault Reason: Field 'data' in structure does not exists ". But I am sending four array('logical', 'type', 'comparison', 'data'). Why is it saying data not found?

Reference: https://developer.openx.org/wiki/display/AP...-ExamplePHPcode

/www/api/v2/xmlrpc/ - Java

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:46 +0000

I can't make it work in JAVA way with the XML-RPC way. Does it worked for any?

/www/api/v2/xmlrpc/.

followed java example, normal way and helper classes way. No luck. what is the catch here.
How to interact with /www/api/v2/xmlrpc/ in java way? what's wrong with this approach?

Expandable Banner From Two Swf Files

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:07:50 +0000

Hello all,

I have been searching through this forum but am unable to find step by step tutorial on how to implement expandable banner into website with OpenX server on.

My example is following:

1. I have two files, 728x90 and 728x300.
2. When user mouse-overs 728x90 banner it should expand into 728x300.
3. I am using OpenX 2.8 and Joomla 1.5.

Is there any more info you need? I would really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Tom

Clicks Lost With Loadbalancer

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:16:09 +0000

We have been running openx in a cluster for a few month now, using round robin dns. Few days ago we switched to a load balancer and our clicks dropped to zero. Lucky we have in place a secondary click tracker and it's clicks have remain constant. Below is the url for the ad click. You can see the ck.php, then our internal tracking, then destination. Before the switch everything worked, after the switch OpenX click stopped. Clicking on the banner does still get you to the destination and our internal click tracking is after ck.php so OpenX does get the click request.

Is there a requirement I'm missing for using Openx behind a load balancer. Maybe something like a sticky session.

Thanks
John

Any One Using V2 - Xml-rpc - Java ?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:01:49 +0000

V2 XML-RPC always fails when try to logon?? anyone faced the same issue?

OpenAdsApiXmlRpcProxy proxy = new OpenAdsApiXmlRpcProxy("localhost", "/openx/www/api/v2/xmlrpc");
proxy.logon("admin", "admin");

[Fatal Error] :1:1: Premature end of file.
Fault Code: 0
Fault Reason: Failed to parse server's response: Premature end of file.

org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClientException: Failed to parse server's respons
e: Premature end of file.

Caused by:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Un
known Source)

Is It Possible To Have Daily Statistics For A Campaign Aggregated By P

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:48:17 +0000

Hi,
I found two functions to have campaign statistics.

o campaignDailyStatistics : This gives daily statistics for a campaign for a specified period.
o campaignPublisherStatistics : This give publisher statistics for a campaign for a specified period.

Please let me know if it is possible to have combination of above two functions? i.e. daily statistics for a campaign aggregated by publisher for a specified period.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Vijay

Use Image Name Not Random Number

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:24 +0000

I need to find a way to use the name of the image, rather than the random number that the system generates when an image is uploaded. Is there anyway to override the system naming images a random number? For SEO purposes we need the name of that image to be something relevant, not a random number string...

Detecting Associated Tracker

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:16 +0000

conversion tracking is an awesome way to figure out goals. According to my requirement I need to create a custom cookie for banner with tracking ID. What I have learnt that tracker is directly associated with Advertiser only and if an advertiser has two campaigns and he is tracking conversions only in one campaign then openX still will create OXLCA cookie(for click track) even if there's no requirement at all. I assume openX internally takes care which campaign is attached with tracker and which is not but so far I could not find some way at client side that whether there is any tracking code attached with a banner/campaign or not.

the other waY I found that I add a custom HTML code with the banner which is supposed to track a banner. I parse HTML tag and create my own cookie based on that custom HTML code. Then my own JS will create a custom cookie which will have the data from the HTML code associated with a banner in Admin section of openX.

pls guide me in this regard.

How To Get The Number Of All Ad Impressions From One Website By Day

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:07 +0000

Hi!

We would like to get the number of ad impressions for one publisher/website from one day by using the API. How can I do that?

best regards
Andreas

Help Needed On Api Worked Example

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:35:00 +0000

Hello,

When i tried to run the code provided in the link below (API Worked Example), it throws the error.

https://developer.openx.org/wiki/display/AP...tise+on+my+site

ERROR : Fatal error: XML-RPC Error (2): Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload in method addAdvertiser() in F:\my sites\xampp\htdocs\ffad\lib\xmlrpc\php\openads-api-xmlrpc.inc.php on line 159

I have provided these values for path

'www_path' => 'http://localhost/ffad/www',

'file' => 'F:/my sites/xampp/htdocs/ffad',

Please help me

THanks,

2.8.2 - V2 Api

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:04:19 +0000

recently installed the latest(2.8.2) openX download. Trying the java wrapper classes with V2 API like below

OpenAdsApiXmlRpcProxy proxy = new OpenAdsApiXmlRpcProxy("localhost", "/openx/www/api/v2/xmlrpc");

Tried to just proxy.logon("admin", "admin"). I get the following error.

[Fatal Error] :1:1: Premature end of file.
Fault Code: 0
Fault Reason: Failed to parse servers response: Premature end of file.

When I try V1 (/openx/www/api/v2/xmlrpc). logon works fine. But some other signature mismatch errors when I goahead with V1. Does anyone used V2? Does anyone faced same issue as me?

What Happened To Channels Service In The Api

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:56:43 +0000

Why is there no mention of channels in API version 1 or version 2 docs.
I see the code is missing from v1 but is in v2, but no documentation on it.

I've been having some problems calling channel methods. Simple things like getChannel(id) dont work and give me a "Fatal Error :-1:-1 Premature end of file."

Has anyone else used these php files and accessed them via an apache xmlrpc client?
Its possible that the problem is on the client end, but I dont see why because all the other "published/documented" services seem to be working fine.

Api Extended Through Plugin

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:15:43 +0000

Hi - I need to write a plugin that will extend the API. I've written a plugin that gives a new type of Ad (extension of the HTML ads) & to begin, I was really tearing my hear out trying to look through the scant & scattered docs. Eventially it got easier once I got a good example to use as a starting point.

I really need the same in terms of extending the API. Using the developer module, I've created a 'shell' for a new plugin, but it really is scant on detail - I'd need to go through a LOAD of trial and error to get it right, or just check out a good example. I just need a bit of a leg-up to begin. If anyone has a really simple API Plugin example, that'd be awesome & I'd really appreciate it.

g

Xml-rpc Invocation Tags, $context

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:40:14 +0000

Hi all,

first thanks for this nice piece of software. After hour I find, if I want enable XML-RPC invocation tags, I have to click to plugins and set it there, I think this should be somewhere noted. Anyway, everything works ok, but I have question. Standard code looks like this (shorted):

CODE

   if (!isset($OA_context)) $OA_context = array();
    $oaXmlRpc = new OA_XmlRpc('ads.mydomain.org', '/www/delivery/axmlrpc.php', 80, false, 10);
    $adArray = $oaXmlRpc->view('zone:41', 0, '', '', 0, $OA_context, '');

my question is, where I can find documentation for these functions. The most important part is $OA_context, what I can pass there. I tried to look at

http://developer.openx.org/api/
http://www.openx.org/docs/tutorials/Advanced+XML-RPC
forums and documentation using search

but I didnt find anything related.

thanks for any help.

How To Use Openx In Multiple Languages

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:35:56 +0000

Hello,

I wondered if it is possible to change language in which to use OpenX? For example, is it possible to put "en" and "fr" links in admin page and when admin clicks "fr" all pages changes to ones in French and if admin clicks "en" all pages changes to ones in English.

Thanks in advance.

Openx Plugins - Thoughts

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:03:19 +0000

Just some thoughts I guess. I think the OpenX team has the right idea with the plugin architecture, however, please understand, the technical process and documentation for developing plugins is very difficult to wade through.

We needed raw data logging, and after working through trying to put together a plugin using the provided docs, (we spent days on this) - we resorted to updating core code to make what we wanted....

Now, in general, if you could create a better toolkit, and really make the plugin process as painless as possible for developers, I believe, the number of plugins you see released in the open source market will explode.

You have a reach into a huge huge number of websites, make it easier for developers to provide new functionality to OpenX, and you will create more and more reasons to use the software.

Those are just my thoughts - we live, eat and breath PHP and MySql, and the plugin architecture is just too cumbersome, confusing, and time-consuming for us to get ideas into production.

Eric

Conversion Tracking

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:57:23 +0000

I need to customize OpenX's conversion feature and for that I think plugin option would be good. What all I need that if some visitor clicks a banner and reaches to the page which is set as a CONVERSION GOAL then it stores record in db. The current scnerio does not work since tracking is based on advertiser where what we want that if a banner is displayed and its clicked then it leads to Inquiry page. The ultimate goal is that we could tell advertisers how many converstions they got for their banner. I dont find some way to work in existing mechanism since OpenX asks to create separate tracker(hence different code) for every advertiser which is not our case. any help would be appreciated.

/A

How To Validate A User Using The Api

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:10:23 +0000

Hi,
I'm using openx 2.8.1 and I need to validate the login and password that a user fills in a form, but I don't find any method to do it. GetUser method of UserServices returns empty.

¿Any idea?

Thanks

Hashing And De-hashing Variables In Src And Click_url

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:43:10 +0000

Hello All,
I have read thru just about every forum post on this board, and still haven't found an answer to my question. So I will ask it directly.

"How/where would I create a HASH of the delivery URL variables and then DE-HASH it on the way back in?"
EXAMPLE: src="http://myadserver.com/ck.php?oaparams=blah__zoneid=blah ..."
will become : src="http://myadserver.com/ck.php?x=HG76Ggh6FGUJK7326h4JK"

Being a PHP system, it doesn't seem that difficult to do, being that this is a simple system.

Any ideas? Anyone?

Thank you so much for assistance in advance

How To Modify The Delivery Code

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:16:39 +0000

I want to add some custom code to each banner using some variables available to OpenX like advertiserID, zoneID, campaignID, and bannerID. Right now, I'm typing the custom HTML code directly in the HTML banners, but how can I modify the OpenX delivery code to do it automatically to every banner? Specifically, I want to add an onclick event to each banner anchor.

I was thinking I code just open up /www/delivery/ajs.php and look for where it writes the anchor tag (), but that didn't work, my code didn't show up.

Thanks for your help!