passing variables from one site to another

skdzines

I want to start an affiliate program for current users of ours to earn money. I want to know if anyone knows I can pass a hidden variable containg the users affiliate ID from their website to ours when someone clicks the link to visit our site?

Basically I want something like this:

Affiliate website

<input type="hidden" name="affiliateID" value="12345">
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/order.php">click here</a>

When somebody clicks the link it will take them to our site and should pass the value '12345' to it.

Our website

$affiliateID="<?=affiliateID?>"

When the user fills out our form and submits it, it should send the hidden value of affiliateID to us, so we know which affiliate gets the money.

Would this work or not? If not, can anyone suggest a way?

Thanks

LordShryku

Not unless the field is passed through a form, socket, url, something. Can't pass an input field without a form. Or maybe a cookie...

skdzines

Is there any way to put the affiliateID into the link?

basically something like this:

<a href="http://www.domain.com" name="affiliateID" value="12345">click here</a>

LordShryku

Well somehow you have the value here...
<input type="hidden" name="affiliateID" value="12345">
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/order.php">click here</a>

All you need to append it to the url is
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/order.php?affiliateID=12345">click here</a>

skdzines

Thank you, works wonderfully!