How do you do your affiliate link redirects?

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How do you do your affiliate link redirects?

Wondering about the best technical way of doing it.

HughMungus

4:16 pm on Aug 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

Meta refresh? PHP header? What's the best way to turn an affiliate link into an internal link with a redirect (using a database)?

TIA

Craig_F

1:37 pm on Aug 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

anyone know the best way for this? I'm very interested but have no clue.

in addition to HughMungus request I'd like to know the least technical way to do this since I may not be able to pull off the technical version.

tia!

HughMungus

5:54 pm on Aug 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

I set it up over the weekend. I use a database that has a list of affiliates, each with a unique number identifier. My links look like, "?id=****" where xxx is the affiliate's id in the database. When clicked, the page references the database, gets the link for that affiliate, reloads the current page using target="_self", and uses a header redirect (PHP) to send the browser to that page.

The simple way to do it is to setup a page for each of your affiliate links with a meta refresh, e.g.:

shman

6:14 pm on Aug 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Forgive me if this sounds too basic a question but how do you connect this to a database?

HughMungus

6:21 pm on Aug 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Are you currently using a database for your site at all?