Modifying affiliate links

Hi everybody

I know you can set up new links to your internal pages for your affiliates, for example mysite/amember/go.php?r=999&i=l999.

But that means you have to create these links one by one, and we have a few thousand pages.

Is it possible to deeplink to any page on your site without having to create a special link in amember admin?

Something like mysite/amember/go.php?r=999&i=whatever-URL-I-Like.

Thanks!

I'm currently looking for an answer to this question as well.

Even if someone can say "this isn't possible", that would help.

You could probably create a custom php page that would cookie the member using the r= code, then redirect based on the i code.

Then amember cookie can be set in php by using: (100) is the affiliate id, so you'd need to retrieve this from the r code.

include('/home/yoursite/www/amember/config.inc.php');
aff_set_cookie(100);
$db->log_aff_click('100', 'Link');


David

Thanks David,

The code you gave looks like it will record the affiliate click, and that's pretty much all I would require.

You mentioned something about redirecting based on the i code, which as far as I can tell, is encoded in the database in a way I can't figure out, and therefore am unable to use. I could, however, use a new code (i.e. - url) to reference a destination URL if ever required.

However, I don't foresee needing it for this application, as there would be no redirect to take place.

For others who may need a more "turn key" solution, here's a bit of code you can add to a PHP page to make this happen:

Code:

$affiliate = $_GET['r'];
$url = $_GET['url'];

if ($affiliate != '') {  // Incoming affiliate link 
                include('/home/yoursite/www/amember/config.inc.php');
                aff_set_cookie($affiliate);
                $db->log_aff_click($affiliate, 'Link');
                if ($url != '') {  // there's a redirection 
		     header("Location: $url"); 
		     exit();
                     }
		}

Safe coding practices suggest you 'sanitize' each GET variable before using them. There are several such functions available online to help with this.

Nice code. I'm sure this will come in handy!

David

so is there any updates / feedback available on deeplinking using amember's built in affil program with the code provided in this thread

thank you,

anybody... ??