ASP AdRotator Component

Examples

Simple AdRotator Example
This example shows how to use the AdRotator component to display a different advertisement image, each time a user visits or refreshes the page.

AdRotator - The Images are Hyperlinks
This example shows how to use the AdRotator component to display a different advertisement image, each time a user visits or refreshes the page. In addition, the images are hyperlinks.

ASP AdRotator Component

The ASP AdRotator component creates an AdRotator object that displays a different image each time a user enters or refreshes a page. A text file includes information about the images.

Syntax

<%
set adrotator=server.createobject("MSWC.AdRotator")
adrotator.GetAdvertisement("textfile.txt")
%>

Example

Assume we have a file called "banners.asp". It looks like this:

And a file "ads.txt" that looks like this:

*
w3schools.gif
http://www.w3schools.com/
Visit W3Schools
80
microsoft.gif
http://www.microsoft.com/
Visit Microsoft
20

The lines below the asterisk in the file "ads.txt" specifies the images to be displayed, the hyperlink addresses, the alternate text (for the images), and the display rates in percent of the hits. We see that the W3Schools image will be displayed for 80 % of the hits and the Microsoft image will be displayed for 20 % of the hits in the text file above.

Note: To get the links to work when a user clicks on them, we will have to modify the file "ads.txt" a bit:

REDIRECT banners.asp
*
w3schools.gif
http://www.w3schools.com/
Visit W3Schools
80
microsoft.gif
http://www.microsoft.com/
Visit Microsoft
20

The redirection page (banners.asp) will now receive a querystring with a variable named URL containing the URL's to redirect to.

Note: To specify the height, width, and border of the image, you can insert the following lines under REDIRECT:

REDIRECT banners.asp
WIDTH 468
HEIGHT 60
BORDER 0
*
w3schools.gif
...
...

The last thing to do is to add some lines of code to the "banners.asp" file:

<%
url=Request.QueryString("url")
If url<>"" then Response.Redirect(url)
%>

That's all!!

Properties

Property	Description	Example
Border	Specifies the size of the borders around the advertisement	<% set adrot=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.AdRotator") adrot.Border="2" Response.Write(adrot.GetAdvertisement("ads.txt")) %>
Clickable	Specifies whether the advertisement is a hyperlink	<% set adrot=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.AdRotator") adrot.Clickable=false Response.Write(adrot.GetAdvertisement("ads.txt")) %>
TargetFrame	Name of the frame to display the advertisement	<% set adrot=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.AdRotator") adrot.TargetFrame="target='_blank'" Response.Write(adrot.GetAdvertisement("ads.txt")) %>

Methods

Method	Description	Example
GetAdvertisement	Returns HTML that displays the advertisement in the page	<% set adrot=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.AdRotator") Response.Write(adrot.GetAdvertisement("ads.txt")) %>

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