Feature Requests Poll, Which new features most important? Options

[andrew_hill]

Hi Sultan,

I would vote to the Time zoon issue since our hosting is with American company and the time diffrences between our time and the server time is 11 hr advance.

Tell me about it! We have the same issues with dealing with our O/S clients.

Unfortunately, the only thing I can suggest in the short term is to change the timezone of your server (if you have access) - dealing with configurable timezones in Max, at least, requires some significant changes to the user interface, and it's not something we're likely to do until we replace the UI.

Cheers,

[John Diver]

I think it's confusing between Publicly Buy or Sell Inventory from MMM/PAN via PayPal and the Integrated Billing.

Can someone explain the difference?

I would like to have automatic signup so advertisers can pay on the site and upload their banners etc. then have them shown on the site once payment has been received.

Thanks

[casinocrush]

Hi there all,

I've finally cast my vote. It's so tricky with so many lovely new features that would be awesome to have. I've voted for the mass import but this would be more so that (if possible) I could import banners from one PhpAds instance to another (whether on the same actual server or not), via a login which would assign new banner ids etc but keep all the other details.

Other favorites would be the keyword/categories analysis and of course billing which would be nice but not yet something I'm too worried about because I believe this can be done manually and then using a new Client in PAN via a Zone with restrictions on the client properties (although ermm I've not actually tried it).

Thanks for such a cool product.

Cheers,
Geno

[casinocrush]

Ooops sorry i meant to add something else..

I've seen the concerns about the maintenance of coding things.

Is it worth considering building extra bits as optional, separately coded options which use separate tables and then synchronise them.. probably not ideal but maybe an option (particularly for statistics based things anyway).

I'm up for trying to code something on the keyword stats but would only have the knowledge of how to do this for the mysql database.

After all my usage of this and things I've learned I'm very willing to contribute something at least code-wise that might help others like PAN has me. I could spare a day or so a week for this, and if someone can create a post for a specification of the sorts of things people would want I can *TRY* to come up with something that satisfies at least the majority (and I'd do it as a completely separate thing which could share the login data of the admin for example) and then provide statistics as required from a subdirectory where all the code is separate.

Cheers,
Geno

[criscokid]

I've voted for the mass import but this would be more so that (if possible) I could import banners from one PhpAds instance to another (whether on the same actual server or not), via a login which would assign new banner ids etc but keep all the other details.

At the end of November I went to Zanox Academy here in London. For those of you who haven't heard of Zanox...
Zanox is the European market leader in performance-based multichannel commerce. With its zanox XS platform, the Berlin-based company offers a globally unique marketing solution for effective online and offline sales. zanox is positioning itself as a global player, offering multichannel commerce in more than 25 countries and 4 continents. Numerous prestigious companies from a wide range of industries rely on the sales power of zanox. These include Procter & Gamble, Jamba!, Vodafone, o2, Lycos, Expedia, Allianz, Citibank, Axa, Sixt, DaimlerChrysler, Quelle and Staples.

In terms of afiliate networks; they're huge in Germany and growing rapidly across Europe, America, Asia and also China!

The good news is that on the technical side they're going to be allowing website publishers to access their databases directly. This means that phpAdsNew could have the facility for a website owner to log in to their Zanox affiliate account and manage their ads and banners in their phpAdsNew installation.

If this feature were to be coded in to phpAds it would put the product ahead of it's competitors. If the developers of phpAdsNew are interested in finding out more please drop me a PM or email and I'll gladly send you the contact details of the technical lead person on this new facility.

(http://forum.phpadsnew.com/index.php?showtopic=7869&hl=)

[tomk]

Hey,

No option for improved wieghting system?

[fragia]

Hi,

I think that Text Ads both really a good idea, in how much a very in demand advertising form is, it would do even more stupendous this marvelous program


a thanks sincere to all those people who you/they work us....


Francesco Italy

[rhantson]

I just have to say that I feel that Billing Integration is probably one of the most needed portions of this software package.

I've been pushed by alot of my clients to turn to another product called "peeps" - I call it the chicken advertising system - but I'm dead set on PHPAdsNew... have been for a couple of years, and there really is no turning back... This system is way too robust and just so damned easy to use it's not funny.

Just wanted to put that in - the whole reason I came to the forum tonight was to ask when this was going to be maybe on the plate for future upgrades, and realized that it was much talked about in several areas...

I still had to post...

Great Job Guys!

Sincerely,

Robert J. Hantson
www.theworldwideradioweb.com

[timtro]

The only thing that the upgrade needs is some kind of a "dif file" upload function in the admin similar to what is used in vBulletin. I would be happy to pay an annual fee of some reasonable amount to have that feature. However, I found the Quick Upgrade Instructions to be very helpful. I also delete the language files that I don't need before uploading from the zip, but (note to self) I probably need to try using the tar file instead.

[vicos]

Not sure if this is covered here, but my dream system would be a hybrid of AdWords and BlogAds.com. We would like to sell text/media ads on specific pages (perhaps specified by zones in the invocation code) similar to AdWords (except that ads aren't matched to keywords found on the page). But instead of paying per click/impression, we want to charge a flat rate (say $100/month) based on the zone and maybe the priority if we allow more than one advertiser on a particular page. Blogads.com ads are also a little nicer than Google--allowing multimedia, e.g. http://www.blogads.com/examples/nominees?topic=music

Of course, the process would be completely self-service for the ad buyer including on-line payment. Admin approval would be required for new ads and subsequent changes to prevent objectionable materials.

thanks for listening...

[Mike Zmuda]

Personally, I'd like to see a backend CRM (Customer Relations Management) module added which would allow things like

1) Bill Advertisers
2) Track Payments
3) Automatically Replenish Views

I'd also like to see customizable demographic criteria - for example: Display a banner based on this visitor being [X]

where [X] could be ANY user definable criteria:

ie:

1) in the age range of 18-24
2) in area code 212
3) Single
4) Favorite musical instrument is Piano

This could require more information from the hosting site, but would make advertisements MUCH more targeted to specific, user defined demographics.

Just my $.02

- Mike Z

[andrew_hill]

No option for improved wieghting system?

What improvements to the weighting system do you want?

[John Diver]

Anything happening with these features?

[andrew_hill]

Anything happening with these features?

Sure. For example, the latest version of Max (v0.3.22-alpha) has integrated basic finance information working now, so you can enter CPM, CPC, CPA values for ads and zones, and look at the values in the statistics screens.

Okay, it's not complete "billing integration", but it's a start...

So, yes, we're listening, and we're working to add features as best we're able to!

Cheers,

[sjordan]

How about the ability to create contextual ads similar to Google AdSense?

I know we can already run AdSense, but I'm not saying to run AdSense.... rather mimic AdSense.

In other words, the JS that a publisher pastes on his or her site should have a bit of smarts and be able to "figure out" what that page is about on which it is placed. Then the appropriate ad should be served from PAN.

I know we can set keywords and parameters in the JS pull ads by keyword. But I'm thinking of something more passive. Just paste the same JS on any page and the appropriate ad will be come up.

Think AdSense or the contextual ad model of chitka Chitika