You have a very good idea, but it’s almost 1 year since you published this post and the latest version of OpenX 2.8.7. I am not able to find good documentation of creating plugins, I would love to create plugins for OpenX but the information I’m getting is not enough for creating a plugin. I used the plugin development tool but I am simply not understanding how to build a package from the file created by plugin builder and use it.

It would be nice if you could guide me to any good documentation so that I can start building plugins.

Thank you.

Pankaj

Before I continue some notes:
- we did not make the Video ads plugin, that one was developed by the OpenX team at OpenX.org
- both of these plugins happen to use an third party library called Open Flash Charts (OFC) to produce graphical representations of the statistics

One more note: you’ve posted a comment here, the blog post about the release of version 1.0.2. There is currently a newer version 1.0.3 available.

If you read the error message that you’ve encountered, you’ll notice that it says there to review the server error log. In that log there is going to be very valuable detailed technical information about the exact reason or cause of the problem. You will need that information to fix this issue. This may not even be an issue with this plugin or the Open Flash Charts (OFC) component.

In both the plugins, in the Statistics as Graphs plugin and also the Video ads plugin, I get an error message. I need them urgently working. I have installed as explained above. Can you please explain what is wrong?

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Thanks for your update. It seems to me that this might be a problem with the local setup of either your server or your browser. Please let us know if you find out more.

Regards, Erik Geurts

No, no errors logged in Apache. I get the JSON. So, I presume no PHP issues, but graphing is dying in rendering the data.

I downloaded OpenFlashGraph to try out, and it dies with my JSON. So there!

Dhanyawaad / Regards,
Rithish.

Thanks for your comment. You can read some more information about the Retargeting plugin for OpenX. There is a form on that page that you can use to contact us.

If you’re seriously interested in this plugin, we do have a free evaluation version of the plugin that you can try out for a number of weeks. To obtain this, you can contact us as described above. The evaluation version is not available to download through the website.

Regards, Erik Geurts

The fact that it works in some cases is interesting. I would recommend checking out if you’ve assigned enough memory to PHP and also see if you can enable php warnings and error messages on screen. That might tell you what happens in those cases where it doesn’t work. Also, have a look at the Apache error log, that might contains some valuable information.

Best regards, Erik Geurts

I still get a blank graph. However, interestingly, it sometimes works for some data, and some not. The plugin test installation is a local installation and is not on the internet. I will dedicate some time for this during the weekend and post back the results.

Dhanyawaad / Regards,
Rithish.