Afiliate Urls.....?

buddysal

Hi, this is my first post.. and im stuck on something...

Im writing a MLM script and ive got it to do the affiliate url like "http://www.example.com/index.php?SP=username" when i type the url in like that it reads right... but then when i go to click on a link inside my site it reads normal like "http://www.example.com/compensation.php" instead of "http://www.example.com/compensation.php?SP=username"

how do i fix it?
Thanks,
Buddy

trooper

when you come in with an affiliate link then you need to capture the affiliate ID.

One way to do this would be to put the value of SP into a cookie that expires when the browser is closed

if(!empty($SP))
{
setcookie("affiliate_id",$SP,"/",0);
}

Now you have that stored away when you have your links (a href) then you simply put in the value of $SP that is in the cookie onto the end of the link.

Or the other way is to use sessions.

HTH

Any questions just contact me and i'll help ya out

buddysal

I added it like so:

if(!empty($SP))
{
setcookie("affiliate_id",$SP,"/",0);
}

i got this warning:
Warning: setcookie() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in /home/buddysal/public_html/test.php on line 19

and my url looks like this
http://www.example.com/index.php?SP=buddysal<P><font size=

buddysal

ive been able to fix everything but my warning....

"Warning: setcookie() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in /home/buddysal/public_html/test.php on line 19"

Line 19 = setcookie("affiliate_id",$SP,"/",0);

trooper

Apologies got it the wrong way around it should be

setcookie("affiliate_id",$SP,0,"/");

HTH

buddysal

ok it worked, thnx 🙂 if i have anymore problems ill be asking here lol

thanks