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 Ok, here is the code: advert.html <html> Alright, this is just a basic page. This is the page that the user will go to. You can have whatever kind of content you want. But take note of the script in the head. It calls the php file for the javascript. Simply putting that code on any page will allow you to display the ad. advert.php <?php A bit more explaining invovled with this one. As you can see, we start php. This next line of code sets up the variable "cookie" and adds the cookie data to it. The name of the cookie is _advert. If this cookie is not set, the variable will be empty. We then check to see if "cookie" is equal to false, which means we shouldn't show the advertisement, they've already seen it today. If it is, we exit and the rest of the script is not executed. If it wasn't set to false, it apparently hasn't been set and they haven't seen the ad. We will then set the cookie. This must be done before anything is echoed or it will not work. The first thing is the name of the cookie, followed by it's value and when it will expire. It will expire in one day. It's measured in seconds and there are 86400 seconds in one day. Now we echo the javascript that is used to show the ad. I will use the paragraph echo for this. The final END; cannot have any whitespaces on the line. I will explain the javascript too. function ad() {First, we start a function and call it ad. Inside this function, we put a document.write, which writes stuff to the page. You can add some html and an iframe for your sponsor here. Then we use document.close so the page doesn't keep loading. Next, we end the function. Then, once the page is fully loaded, we execute the function. This works because when you call a document.write once the page is loaded, all of the content will be replaces by what's in the document.write. Now obviously, this code is simple and although it can be used as it, you might want to change it around to suit your needs and do some check with the cookies. And if this tutorial starts to make no sense, it's because I wrote this at 5:00 AM. 
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