"MyBannerExchange"
(Uses PHP4, MySQL)



MyBannerExchange is a full-featured banner exchange script that supports 2-tier categories with targeted banner impressions, automatic inactive account removal, extensive stats displayed in realtime, and a complete administration area. MyBannerExchange can be completely customized to match your website. Users can create banner ads or text-based ads.

No banner required...
The most important feature, is that users can join your banne exchange without having a banner. Not all website owners have the ability or resources to create their own banner, and this fact has always kept webmasters from joining these types of programs. Not anymore! MyBannerExchange will let users create a text-based advertisement with a link to their site, inside a 468x60 table. The text colors (background, border and text) can be customized.

Targeted Banner Impressions...
When a person signs up using a specific category, by default they'll have banners of that same category on their site. Now obviously, when you first get your service going, each person may be the only one in their subcategory, or even the only one in their main category. The script compensates for this. The script first checks to see if there's another site in that category. If there is, it displays it. If not, it then checks to see if there's another site in that main category. If not, it tries a third time by checking the entire database for another banner to display, regardless of category. If THAT fails, that means you only have one account in your database that's considered "active". You should at least add your own banner by creating your own account, and then set it for "exempt" on the admin page. :)

Disabling inactive accounts...
This feature safeguards against people that remove the code from their site, or never put the code in at all. If that paerson does not send a hit from the banner on their site within xx hours (you can specify how many hours), their banner is not shown on any other site. Banners will continue being shown on their site, and when they finally do send a hit, it'll automatically be reinstated into the system. This feature also prevents dead-beat no-traffic websites from sucking up hits from high-trafic sites. :) Note: You can set a specific account, most likely your own, to be exempt from this time interval. This can be done through the admin page.