A Drupal Advertising API

This module is now being maintained in Drupal's contrib repository, released under a GPL license.

Features

• Written in PHP specifically for Drupal.
• Highly configurable.
• Simple installation.
• Modular design allows easy addition of additional advertising formats.
• Any number of configurable banner groups.
• Comprehensive statistics allowing time-based reporting and analysis.
• Tracks when ads are clicked, by which user, which IP, and where.
• ad_image module supports banner and image-block ads.
• ad_text module supports text ads.

Downloads

Drupal 4.7.x:
Current release: none
Alpha release: 0.3.1 [gz] [browse] (December 11, 2006)

Changes

0.3.1 (December 11, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, cleanup.

0.3.0 (December 10, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, implemented ad_text module.

0.2.4 (December 9, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, begin coding ad_text module.

0.2.3 (December 3, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, improved statistics, tracks advertisement clicks.

0.2.2 (November 29, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, auto-generates blocks

0.2.1 (November 29, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, collects statistics

0.2.0 (November 27, 2006) [browse]

• Alpha code, can display random image ads

0.1.0 (April 11, 2006) [browse]

• Initial commit to public source code repository.

Development

You can browse the ad module source code online.

The ad module is written in PHP, designed for use with the Drupal CMS. The source code has been released under a BSD license. The source code is managed with the Mercurial Source Control Management system. The Mercurial Wiki includes directions for installing Mercurial on Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X) and Windows.

Use the following Mercurial command to obtain the latest ad module code for Drupal 4.7:

hg clone http://kerneltrap.org/hg/drupal/4.7/ad ad