Comments on: .NET library for accessing the OpenX API

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:32:08 +0000

Hi Howard,
It turns out the OpenX API itself doesn’t implement a way to handle the “URL” storage type.

In my apps I’ve used the “html” storage type and specificed an htmlTemplate that includes the markup for an image.

Hopefully that helps.

By: howard

howard — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:16:31 +0000

Hi Roger,

First, thanks for a great library. I’m having problems creating banners. The banner gets created, but the properties don’t get filled in right. The name, height, width, and Destination URL get the right values, but Image URL doesn’t get populated! I’m under a short deadline to get this working. Any ideas would really be helpful!

Howard

My code looks like:
Banner banner = new Banner();
banner.campaignId = Convert.ToInt32(txtCampaignId.Text);
banner.bannerName = string.Format(“Test-{0}”, Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
banner.storageType = “url”;
banner.imageUrl = txtImageURL.Text; // I’ve tried both valid and invalid urls here
banner.width = 300;
banner.height = 100;
banner.url = txtURL.Text; // I’ve tried both valid and invalid urls here

api.Logon();
bannerID = api.AddBanner(banner);
api.Logoff();

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:50:50 +0000

Here is the exact line I am using.

string myURL = “http://www.msnapaccess.com/OpenX/www/api/v2/xmlrpc/”;

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:37:51 +0000

Hi Dennis, are you using the full OpenX API URL? Like: http://www.yoursite.com/OpenX/www/api/v2/xmlrpc/

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:29:27 +0000

I am having difficulty performing a login. I am getting an error that states the following.

“Response from server does not contain valid XML.” Any idea what might be causing this. Here is my login code.

OpenXApiV2 OpenXAPI = new OpenXApiV2(edtURL.Text.Trim(), edtUserID.Text.Trim(), edtPassword.Text.Trim());

OpenXAPI.Logon();

Thank you for any help you may offer.

By: guste

guste — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:18:37 +0000

1-Yes, what I need is to create, get, and modify banner delivery options. Specially to manage several “Site Variables” (with AND condition) matching regex.
2-I’ll contact you by mail to not pollute your blog.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:35:56 +0000

- In my English version, the 2nd tab is “Delivery Options” for setting access filters on the banner. Is this what you’re looking for? (delivery limitations, visitor capping, etc)
- There are approximately 40 statistic methods that need to be implemented. The source code is available if you feel comfortable to implement those yourself. Or if you let me know the ones you need specifically, I can get started on this for you.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:31:51 +0000

Okay, glad that worked. You’re right, you could couple the array and custom cases together. It just depends on the version of OpenX, the array case didn’t exist in some previous versions.

By: guste

guste — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:42:28 +0000

Sorry, I’ve got two other questions for you Roger. I see nothing in API which could permit to:
1-Create, get and modify banner distribution options (distribution is the French term, I don’t know how to translate in English -> second tab when you are in banner detail screen in OpenX Back Office)?
2-Access statistics?
Thanks

By: guste

guste — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:55:19 +0000

On my side I made your modification on line 359 (switch [...] case ‘custom’). If I well understand we could couple case ‘array’ and case ‘custom’? I don’t really understand what it really does but now it works when I call GetBannerListByCampaign() and GetBanner()
Thanks a lot.