Deeplinking methods with masking...?

[mat]

Hi,

On one of my sites I am currently masking and directing to affiliate links with the 301 htaccess method. Example...

mysite.co.uk/go/currys.php ----> goes to currys affiliate link

I am looking for a quick deeplinking method, as clicking that link will just take you to the currys homepage, instead of products I would like to advertise from time to time...

I would like to be able to quickly make links without having to put a new link in the htaccess file every time.

Im quite happy to apply a new masking method if it means deep linking is quick and easy...

 

[dragon]

Here's what i use

<?php
header ('Location: merchantsite.com/?youraffid.html') ;?>

Save that and name it "whateveryourwant.php" then link to that.

 

[mat]

I need a method for quickly deeplinking to many different products on many different merchant sites...

 

[monaghan]

why not pass something unique to your own page and use this to decode the merchant and product

mysite.co.uk/shopping.php?product=XXXYYYYY

shopping.php can then lookup XXX to get the merchant site to redirect to and build YYYYY into the new URL along with the necessary affiliate ID's and such like.

I did something similiar for a site a while back.

 

[mat]

So far I have something like this

<?php
$link=array(
'currys'=>"http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=****&id=*****",
'othermerchants'=>
'othermerchants'=>
'othermerchants'=>
);
$url=$link[$_GET['m']];
header("Location: ".$url);
?>


So when I type in:

sitename.co.uk/go.php?m=currys

It goes to the currys home page and this can simply be done for more merchants by adding them to the list. The problem I am having is calling in the exact product url onto the end.

For example this is a full affiliate window deeplink....

awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=****&awinaffid=******&clickref=&p=http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/359917

 

[monaghan]

awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=****&awinaffid=******&clickref=&p=http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/359917

Assuming the 359917 is the product code

why not mysite.co.uk/shopping.php?product=1X359917

$affiliate = array(
'1' => 'http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo'
);

use the php split function $split = split('X',$_GET['product']);

$split[0] will be the key to your affiliate array and
$split[1] will be the product code

$url = "awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=****&awinaffid=******&clickref=&p=" . $affiliate[$split[0]] . "/" . $split[1];

 

[mat]

That could actually be perfect.... I will try it and let you know!!

 

[mat]

Yep, thanks, that really helped!

I changed the code so that I can use it with unlimited merchants (as they all dont have easy to enter product codes)

Turned out like this.....

<?php
$affiliate = array(
'currys' => 'http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=1599&awinaffid=*****&clickref=&p=',
'pixmania' => 'http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=782&awinaffid=*****&clickref=&p=',
'pcworld' => 'http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=1598&awinaffid=*****&clickref=&p=',
);

$split = split('X',$_GET['m']);

$url=$affiliate[$split[0]] . $split[1];
header("Location: ".$url);
?>

Means I can just copy and paste the standard product link onto the end and away it goes with my affiliate details included!

 

[monaghan]

If m contains the url then it is not masked though or are you purely trying to mask the fact that it is an affiliate link?

 

[mat]

I wanted a quick way to deep link without the affiliate information showing...

So now say I want to quickly link to a laptop on pcworld, I will simply put:

sitename.co.uk/go.php?m=pcworldXhttp://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/067249

Thanks,

Mat