forum redirect help

pinkbird

I am having a problem that has me tearing my hair out.
I have a lot of stores on my site that have affiliate links. I have integrated it into my forum that if someone posts a link to one of those stores it will redirect through my affiliate link before going back to the original page posted.
It all works just great except for one glitch.
Posting just one link in a post goes great.
If more than one link is in a post, it only redirects through the first link listed.
I need help getting all links to be recognized individually and redirecting correctly.
Here is a sample post:

http://www.flamingoworld.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=freebie&Number=2331

All completely different urls, but all redirect to the first one posted.
Would like it to process the first url and continue on to do all urls until it runs out of urls to process.

When you view the properties for each link, the "txt=" part is always the same as the first link. The "to=" is the posted link.
The "txt=" should be the same as the "to="
The "txt=" is the final landing page where people want to go, so they both need to be the same, as in the first listed link.
I am sure you are all confused by now! lol

But the thing is, the redirecting isn't going through and doing all the links, only the first one.
I am just getting so frustrated, I feel I know this forum code so well from working on this, but I am stumped.
The problem only exists if the urls are in the same post. The redirect works great when using just one link in one post.
Just need to figure out how to get the redirect to recognize and process more than one link in a post.
If I can get this figured out the script will work perfect.

Here is the part of the code causing the problem:

eregi("[[:alnum:].,-_?+~%#/&=]*</a>",$Body,$reg3);
$txt = $reg3[0];
$txt = eregi_replace("</a>"," ",$txt);
$txt = eregi_replace(">","",$txt);
$txt = trim($txt);
$txt = str_replace("&","|.|",$txt);
if(strpos($Body,"href='")){
$Body = str_replace("href='","href='../redirect.php?txt=$txt&to=",$Body);
}elseif(strpos($Body,"href=\"")){
$Body = str_replace("href=\"","href=\"../redirect.php?txt=$txt&to=",$Body);
}elseif(strpos($Body,"href=")){
$Body = str_replace("href=","href=../redirect.php?txt=$txt&to=",$Body);
}

$postrow[$i]['Body'] = $Body;

Thanks!
Connie

pinkbird

anyone? Even a general suggestion to point me in the right direction would be appreciated!

Thanks

jeremuck

I'm not sure what is you are trying to do.
You have a posted message with a list of URLS.
These are affiliate links?
When the user clicks on a link, you want them to be redirected to that one.
What's this about the others though? You want the user to be redirected to every one of them? How is that supposed to work? For example, if there is site A, B, C on my post. If a user clicks on C, you want them to be sent to A->B->C? what is supposed to redirect them from Site A to B? Once they are on site A, they are on site A, aren't they?
Also, why like that? If they click on site A, B and C are not included. Seems if you wanted credit for all affiliates, even if they clicked on the first on (A) you still want redirect credit for B and C?

Are you able to look at all the URLS in a post and put them in an array? It's always easier to roll through an array. You have two variables in your URL, how is it supposed to do more than two?

The main thing is: if it is supposed to go from A->B->C when the user clicks on C, where are you sending the user? If you are sending them to A, how are they supposed to go any farther?

pinkbird

Say I have url A, B, C, in my post.
Right now no matter which one people click on, they all redirect though A.
I want A to redirect through A
B to redirect through B and
C to redirect through C.

I need to find a way to make my redirect recognize each link when it is doing the redirect, right now it is only recognizing the first one listed.

I only want people to go to the original link posted, but have it redirect though the corresponding affiliate link for that post only.

Sometimes people post links to different categories for a site, or a list of different sites.
Right now they are not getting sent to the correct page, they are always just going to the first link posted.

I am not trying to get credit for anything other than what is posted, not trying to do anything sneaky to get more credit.

jeremuck

ok, I think I understand now.

A->A, B->B, C->C....

are you able to put all the links in an array?
just the URL?

I'd stuff every link in an array, and make a uniqueID for it as the key.

Then when I'm ready to spit it out, it's just:

redirect.php?txt=$curValue&to=$curValue;

why don't you use the same value?

Looking at your source, the "to" variable appears correctly every time. Where are you getting it from? Why Don't you just use that for txt and to? Why does txt have to parsed separately? If you've already got it, why do it again?

pinkbird

Say someone posts a link like this:
http://www.amazon.com/

The redirect looks through my database for a match.

The txt= is the original link posted. It is used to go to my database and find the corresponding affiliate link and loads that.
The txt= part is needed to be used in the redirect so all variations can be processed.
It goes through and replaces ampersands and any other variations. The txt is used in several different parts of my redirect.

The to= is also the original link posted. It is the final landing page that the user is supposed to go to once the redirect is finished.

After the code I already posted is processed, it goes through some more code. That part of the code is working correctly.

Just can't get the part of code listed to recognize each link instead of just the first one.

Sorry if this is confusing!

jeremuck

so the problem is you aren't getting the list to begin with?

eregi("[[:alnum:]\.,-_?+~%#/&=]*</a>",$Body,$reg3); 
$txt = $reg3[0]; 
$txt = eregi_replace("</a>"," ",$txt); 
$txt = eregi_replace(">","",$txt); 
$txt = trim($txt); 
$txt = str_replace("&","|.|",$txt); 
if(strpos($Body,"href='")){ 
$Body = str_replace("href='","href='../redirect.php?txt=$txt&to=",$Body); 
}elseif(strpos($Body,"href=\"")){ 
$Body = str_replace("href=\"","href=\"../redirect.php?txt=$txt&to=",$Body); 
}elseif(strpos($Body,"href=")){ 
$Body = str_replace("href=","href=../redirect.php?txt=$txt&to=",$Body); 
} 
$postrow[$i]['Body'] = $Body;

is this wrapped in a loop or something? This looks like you are just getting the first one. What's in the other indices of reg3? How much is your regexp searching? Is it searching the whole text or finding the first one is stopping?
Why don't you use parse_url()?
I still don't fully understand your problem... there's a general saying that if something is causing a bottleneck, just get rid of it. Getting the apropriate "txt" variable is causing you a problem. However, every "to" variable is correct.

//<a href="../redirect.php?txt=http://www.lorealparisusa.com/myloreal/offers.htm&to=http://www.lorealparisusa.com/myloreal/offers.htm" target="_blank">[url]http://www.lorealparisusa.com/myloreal/offers.htm[/url]</a>
//<a href="../redirect.php?txt=http://www.lorealparisusa.com/myloreal/offers.htm&to=http://www.gp.com/consumerproducts/quiltednorthern/newproducts.html" target="_blank">[url]http://www.gp.com/consumerproducts/quiltednorthern/newproducts.html[/url]</a>

//<a href="../redirect.php?txt=http://www.lorealparisusa.com/myloreal/offers.htm&to=http://www.soaploft.com/store.htm" target="_blank">[url]http://www.soaploft.com/store.htm[/url]</a>

Where are you getting the "to" variable?
Why is it you can get every different link into a "to" variable, but not "txt"? Use the SAME technique are you using to get the "to" variable to get the "txt" variable, then strip it doesn, using parse_url() so it's easy to read. Then lookup the affiliate link in your database. Reset "txt" with the new variable.