Using Revive with Booking.com

[Richard Foley]

I need to use Revive with Booking.com. I've seen the excellent "using adsense with revive" article from Erik, here: http://www.revive-adserver.com/faq/using-google-adsense-with-revive-adserver/ but (obviously) this only supports a specific set of "known" third party ad servers. At the current time, Booking.com appears to be not supported. Does anyone know if Booking.com *will* be supported any time soon? Or, (if booking.com support is not so complicated), have suggestions for how to support it?

Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.

Edited November 10, 2015 by Richard Foley
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[Ian]

Hi Richard,

Do they provide you with an invocation code, and you'd want to do click tracking ?

 

Cheers, Ian

[Richard Foley]

That's right, Ian. Where the invocation code from booking looks something like this:

 <ins class="bookingaff" data-aid="428279" data-target_aid="425828" data-prod="banner" data-width="468" data-height="60" data-banner_id="13866">
    <a href="//www.booking.com?aid=425828">Booking.com</a>
</ins>
<script type="text/javascript">

  // some javascript stuff

</script>

 

Hi Richard,

Do they provide you with an invocation code, and you'd want to do click tracking ?

 

Cheers, Ian

[Ian]

Sure, Revive has a clickurl Macro, which you should just put in front of the URL, If I recall correctly I think it should be like :

<a href="{clickurl}//www.booking.com?aid=425828">Booking.com</a>

[Richard Foley]

Thanks for that tip, Ian. That got me a lot closer. I have inserted that into the banner invocation code, and used both Generic and Revive server types:

 <a href="{clickurl}//www.booking.com?aid=885828">Booking.com</a>

and set Invocation Defaults to be Generic (or Revive) under the Banner Delivery Settings page.  

Neither Generic nor Revive server types seem to trigger the invocation code to do anything but replace {clickurl} with a blank string.

This feels very close, but I'm probably still doing something simple (wrong)... :\

[Richard Foley]

Got it. I need to enable PHP execution within ads to enable magic macros. I believe I've seen this described is a security risk somewhere, so am not so happy about doing this on the live server without more research. Nevertheless, thanks, Ian for your assist with the clickurl parameter! :)

[Ian]

cool! glad you figured it out :)