banner tracking problem

[TrezzAu]

Hi,

Got a bit of a problem. The tracking code below, tracks each click with the following URL http://www.mydomain.com/bannertrak/phptrak.php?http://www.myotherdomain.com

However instead of using the URL after php? I want to use say abcde & then have the php convert this to the URL.

I'm not exactly hip with PHP any help would be appreciated.
The problem is that one of my friends has a banner on their site & we want to track the hits out. Problem is his php driven site, is reading the tracking code as 2 seperate URL's

Any ideas?

Thanks TrezzAU 🙂

$CHECK_URL = FALSE;
$CHECK_URL_REGEX = "/^(http:|ftp:\/\/).*(\.+).*/i";

$CHECK_REFERER = FALSE;
$REFERER_SUBSTRING = "xxxxxxxxx.com";

$LOG_FILE_PATH = "/www/sites/xxxx/www.xxxxxx.com/bannertrak/trak/index.html";

//-------------------------------------




$QS = $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];

//now check if $QS looks like a URL

if($CHECK_URL && !preg_match($CHECK_URL_REGEX, $QS)){
	//this didn't match
	echo "<p>The URL direction does not seem to point to a valid URL.</p>";
	exit;
	}

if($CHECK_REFERER){
	if (!stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], $REFERER_SUBSTRING)){
		echo "<p>The referer does not match. Please make sure that the link you clicked came from the right site.</p>";
		exit;
		}
	}

//If we have made it throught the checks, we write to the log file.

if($fd = @fopen($LOG_FILE_PATH,  "r+")) {
	//lock access for reading
	flock($fd, 1);
   	//get the entire file contents
	while(!feof($fd)) {
		$data .= fgets($fd, 8000);
	 	}
	if(preg_match("|<tr><td class=\"DataTD\"><a href=\"$QS\">$QS<\/a><\/td><td class=\"DataTD\">(.*)<\/td><\/tr>\n|", $data, $matches)){
		//we are already tracking this one
		$count = $matches[1];
		$count++;
		$CountReplacementStr = "<tr><td class=\"DataTD\"><a href=\"$QS\">$QS</a></td><td class=\"DataTD\">" . $count . "</td></tr>\n";
		$data = preg_replace("|<tr><td class=\"DataTD\"><a href=\"$QS\">$QS</a></td><td class=\"DataTD\">.*</td></tr>\n|", $CountReplacementStr , $data);
		}
	else{
		$data = preg_replace("|<!--INSERT_NEW_LOGS_HERE-->|", "<!--INSERT_NEW_LOGS_HERE-->\n<tr><td class=\"DataTD\"><a href=\"$QS\">$QS</a></td><td class=\"DataTD\">1</td></tr>\n", $data);
		}
	flock($fd, 3);//release the lock
	fclose($fd);
	$fd = @fopen($LOG_FILE_PATH,  "w+");
	flock($fd, 2);//lock for writing.
	fputs($fd, $data);
	fflush($fd);
	flock($fd, 3);//release lock.
	fclose($fd);
	//echo "QS is " . $QS;
	header("Location: " . $QS);
	}

[Mordecai]

You have: http://www.mydomain.com/bannertrak/phptrak.php?http://www.myotherdomain.com
You want: http://www.mydomain.com/bannertrak/phptrak.php?abcde

Right? This transformation is quite simple in PHP, actually. All you need is an array stating what each domain's "tag" (abcde, for example) will be:
$myURLs = array("abcde"=>"http://www.myotherdomain.com","bcdef"=>"http://wwww.phpbuilder.com");

Now, in phptrak.php, we need to replace the query string (what was originally the URL):

foreach ($myURLs as $tag=>$url) {
  $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] = str_replace($tag,$url,$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"],1);
}

The str_replace() will replace the query string's tag with the URL. There is a count (the latter argument, 1) which will make sure only one of the tags is replaced (so "abcdeabcde" is not just the URL twice).

I hope this helps. It might work with your friend's code as well, but I don't know.

[TrezzAu]

Mordecai,

Thanks for taking the time to help me on this much appreciated 🙂

I haven't tested it as yet, but will let you know.

Cheers

TrezzAu

[TrezzAu]

Originally posted by Mordecai
You have: http://www.mydomain.com/bannertrak/phptrak.php?[url]http://www.myotherdomain.com[/url]
You want: http://www.mydomain.com/bannertrak/phptrak.php?abcde

Right? This transformation is quite simple in PHP, actually. All you need is an array stating what each domain's "tag" (abcde, for example) will be:
$myURLs = array("abcde"=>"http://www.myotherdomain.com","bcdef"=>"http://wwww.phpbuilder.com");

Now, in phptrak.php, we need to replace the query string (what was originally the URL):

foreach ($myURLs as $tag=>$url) {
  $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] = str_replace($tag,$url,$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"],1);
}

The str_replace() will replace the query string's tag with the URL. There is a count (the latter argument, 1) which will make sure only one of the tags is replaced (so "abcdeabcde" is not just the URL twice).

I hope this helps. It might work with your friend's code as well, but I don't know. [/B]

Sorry man, but I don't know where to place the above snipet in the original code?
I'm a totaly newbie, apart from some basic php, I'm not too bright!

Could you please show me where you snipet needs to be placed, please?

Thanks

🙂

TrezzAu