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POLedAds advertising script: stats not updating properly, all stuck at 1 impression
 

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    <p>I installed the old LedAds php scripts (<a href="http://www.ledscripts.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ledscripts.com/</a>) to run a simple ad rotator on my sites and they work really nicely. I sorted out a code issue which stopped me being able to log in to them, thanks to a Google search... but this one I can't find.</p> <p>The ads show. The clicks work. The rotator does its random thing. Everything works great.</p> <p>But behind the scenes, the stats show 1 impression or click for each ad, no more. If there's a click, there's no impression. If there's an impression, there's no click.</p> <p>Database contains pla_ads (aid, type, did, active, datetime), pla_images (with image URLs, link URLs, alt text, sizes), pla_richtext (for ad html that doesn't fit the nice, simple image+URL format) and pla_impressions (aid, impdate, displays, clicks). The last is obviously the one that should be growing.</p> <p>The table is built when the script installs:</p> <p>CREATE TABLE {prefix}_impressions ( aid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', impdate date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00', displays bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', clicks int(11) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (aid,impdate) ) TYPE=MyISAM;</p> <p>The php that does the business is here (saved as text for simplicity): <a href="http://www.oddjotter.com/ad_class.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.oddjotter.com/ad_class.txt</a></p> <p>I manually edited a value in the impressions table to make one ad's impression old (previous day). After a few site visits, I hit that ad - and it now says 2 impressions in the stats but won't count any further impressions for today.</p> <p>If someone can see why the code's only recording one hit (or click) a day, I'd be most grateful!</p>
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    1. COAhaha, figured it out. My brain kept twitching where the update sql is generated: it's the now() function that causes the trouble. Changed it to date(now()) and it works like a dream (so far). Sorted.
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