How would I got about putting an affiliate username on my site?

[agentk]

Hi

Question:

 

Say my website is: mygreatempire.com and I am wanting to implant a referral code on that page.  How would I go about it? 

As an example, I want my referral URL to look somthing like this: mygreatempire.com?ws=?????

 

How can I make "?????" (or whatever else I put there) show on my site?  Basically what my site is going to say is: "You were referred by ?????".  I want to be able to implant any name whatsover where the ????? is right now.

 

I looked at implanting cookies... but have no clue how I would go about doing that.  I am a semi newbie when it comes to php.  Any help?

 

Any suggestions? 

 

Figuring this out would make 2008 my best year yet.  Thanks in advance!

[brown2005]

$ws = $_GET['ws'];

 

echo"You were referred by: $ws";

[agentk]

WOW...

it was that simple?  this is all I ever wanted.  It works like a charm.  Thanks a billion!

[brown2005]

no problems.. for future reference.. if you have

 

index.php?page=home&view=normal

 

you use

 

$_GET[''];

 

to get whats after the ?

 

whatever you have before the = enter between the single quotes so above you would have

 

$page = $_GET['page'];

$view = $_GET['view'];

 

hope this helps

[agentk]

Very good. That makes a lot of sense... and I understand it now. Thanks again!

 

But...

 

I just remembered: Can I have a default display? Assuming somebody does not provide a username, I would need $ws to display a default username. Is that at all possible?

 

I would assume the formula would be something like:

 

if 'ws' = blank, $ws = DefaultUsername

 

No?

[agentk]

maybe just to clarify... the reason I need the value of $ws to change is because I will also be implanting it into a hidden input text field of a form.  If that wasn't the case, I guess I could always just have a different echo... but in this case it obviously would not work.

[dmccabe]

I think what you need is:

 

$ws = $_GET['ws'];

if (!$ws) {
echo "No referall ID entered!";
}
else {
echo "Referall from :".$ws;
}

 

the first part sets the WS to a variable called $ws, the if statemnt checks if $ws has a value, if not it says "no referall ID entered" and if it does then it gives the second message.

[agentk]

I think that is just what I need... however, when I implant it, why does it not read $ws code by itself on the php page?

 

I tried planting $ws by itself in the middle of the page... (apart from the code) yet it displays the following message:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mygreate/public_html/index.php on line 13

 

Here is what I need it to do on my page:

 

 

<input type="hidden" name="$ws">

 

 

Basically... $ws has to have a value at all times.  Shouldn't that somehow work?

[dmccabe]

Can you show us the full code?

 

Make sure you put [ code] [/ code] round the pasted code before submitting, so it is easier to read.

[agentk]

ok great!

 

<table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='10' bordercolor='#cccccc'>
<td>
<center>
<form method='post' action='http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl' name='form' onsubmit='return checkForm()'>
 <input type='hidden' name='unit' value='kdbraun'>
 <input type='hidden' name='redirect' value='http://www.WebSite.ws/kdbraun'>
 <input type='hidden' name='meta_redirect_onlist' value='http://www.WebSite.ws/kdbraun'>
 <input type='hidden' name='meta_adtracking' value='leads'>
 <input type='hidden' name='meta_message' value='1'>
 <input type='hidden' name='meta_required' value='from'>
 <input type='hidden' name='meta_forward_vars' value='1'>
 <input type='hidden' name='referralID' value='$ws'>


<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>
 <tr>
   <td nowrap>
     <div align='center'><strong><font face='Tahoma' size='2'>Your Email Adress:</font></strong>
     </div>
<input type='text' name='from' value='email' size='30' /></td></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<input type='submit' value='Watch Video Now!'>
</form>
</center>
</td>
</table>
</center>

 

I got it all working except for the

  <input type='hidden' name='affiliate' value='$ws'>

 

I'm thinking I might have to create two complete sites within each each of the two echos to pull up... is there any way around it?

 

This is what I am thinking:

 

<?php

$ws = $_GET['ws'];

if (!$ws) {
echo "page1";
}
else {
echo "page2 :".$ws;
}

?>

 

It can be done but if there is a way to do it differently... I'd rather go that root. I hate working within echos

[peranha]

<?php

$ws = $_GET['ws'];

if ($ws == "") {
$ws = "DefaultName";
}
else {

//Rest of page here

}
?>

 

Is that what you are looking for??

[agentk]

Thank you very much peranha...

 

That is exactly what I needed.

 

I love this forum. I just joined 12 hours ago and have already learned so much.  You guys rock!

 

Thanks a billion!