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Old 10-21-2017, 05:17 AM  
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That would be a part of NATS that a sponsor would participate in?

This is a real api (client side) Intrinio Data Marketplace Documentation this is for stock and financial data from their database, some constantly updated. It is a lot more sophisticated than a promo clip/image database would be.

Really, affiliate logins and the time spent in adding new sponsor content one by one in static pages (or blogs) is not a very effective way of marketing content and their resulting referrals. Most professional websites today are presenting content and advertising dynamically.

Here are some ideas:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...tabase-to-json
This looks interesting but I haven't tried it: https://github.com/paolobertani/Dump...le_to_json.php

Making a mysql dump in xml would be an option
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7...format-options This would be done daily or weekly depending on the update schedule (if there is one) -- the alternative is a manual regeneration after an update.

Then the client could parse the XML, could json_encode prior to parsing ( my preference) in PHP -- or the database owner just json_encode the resulting file. Tubes have been doing this for years and affiliates are building tube 'scrape' websites then generating traffic and placing ads including some paysite sponsor content -- but mostly ads for reason of the dynamic automatizing.

JSON is a lot more efficient than the old XML and the size of the file considerably smaller.

If sponsors really want to be competitive in today's affiliate market they need to "get with the program" ... I have dealt for many years with webcams and its constantly updating content flow so this comes second nature to me.
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