PHP Redirect Page

Towny

Hi,

I need help creating a PHP redirect page for affiliate links, I have tried everything but I still cant get it to work.

My affiliate links look like this:

http://tracker.tradedoubler.com/click?=3586&a=878954&g=21172

I have called the redirect page 'redirect.php' so the links will look like:

http://www.mydomain.com/redirect.php?url=http://tracker.tradedoubler.com/click?p=3586&a=878954&g=21172

My PHP code is on the redirect.php page and works perfect when using a normal URL it just doesnt work for these affiliate links.

Can anybody please help me out, with what the PHP code should be on my redirect.php page??

Many Thanks

hessian

I am guessing you're problem is the extended string, having a second question mark in the get string.

If that is your problem, look in to urlencode().

$URL = urlencode($URL);

If that isn't your problem, how about some source code.

Towny

hi hessian,

Thanks for your quick response.

I am pretty much clueless when it comes to PHP - I dont know really what you mean by urlencode and how would I use it??

The code on the redirect page Im using at the moment is:

<?php

$SETUP[siteurl] = "http://www.mydomain.com";

if ($url) {

$lines_array = file($url);
$lines_string = implode('', $lines_array);
eregi("<head>(.*)</head>", $lines_string, $head);

and then

<?php
exit();

} else {

header("Location: $SETUP[siteurl]");
exit();

}

This coding seems to work for redirecting normal url's like www.sitexyz.com but not the affiliate links. I dont even know what the above code means, but it's not working on these damn affiliate links.. arrr...if you have any ideas on what coding may work, I 'd be very thankful.

hessian

Here is what urlencode does to a string:
http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tradedoubler.com%2Fclick%3F%3D3586%26a%3D878954%26g%3D21172

http://www.mydomain.com/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tradedoubler.com%2Fclick%3F%3D3586%26a%3D878954%26g%3D21172

Try running your link with that first, if it work then urlencode will solve your problem.

What you have to do is on the link to redirect.php use the urlencode on the url.

Something like this:
<a href="/redirect.php?url=<?=urlencode($YOUR_LINK);?>">