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[NYDAz]

Well ... since I've learned alot here ... I want to contribute with something ...

It's not a complex or big tool ... but it's very handy ... to hide your affiliate urls

Please note that I'm a begginer in PHP so don't blame me 

buy.php

Code:

<?PHP
$daz = $_GET['daz'];

// FIRST AFFILIATE LINKS
if ($daz == "1") {$link = "http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/&id=111111111";}
if ($daz == "2") {$link = "http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/&id=111111111";}
if ($daz == "3") {$link = "http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/&id=111111111";}
// you can put a lot of links just rember to change the number

// SECOND AFFILIATE LINKS
if ($daz == "4") {$link = "http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/&id=111111111";}
if ($daz == "5") {$link = "http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/&id=111111111";}
if ($daz == "6") {$link = "http://www.youraffiliateurl.com/&id=111111111";}
// you can put a lot of links just rember to change the number

header("Location: $link");
exit();
?>

And the links should be executed like this : http://www.example.com/buy.php?daz=6

 

[nutballs]

not bad for beginning. However, imagine now having thousands of aff links.

Another option is to encode the destination URL somehow.
For example, just encrypt it. then decrypt to redirect.

[NYDAz]

can u give me an example nutt ?

[nutballs]

At the simplest level, you could base64 encode.
So...

to create a link in your page you would spit it out from php as something like:

echo '<a href="?id='.base64_encode('http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/').'">Buy this shit</a>';

which will spit out:
<a href="?id=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL2Jlc3RzZWxsZXJzLw==">Buy this shit[/url]

Clicking that link of course just drops you back on the same page with an id in the getstring now.
so... to redirect:

header("Location: ".base64_decode($_GET['id']));

note, this is not secure at all. Since afterall, anyone can decode a base64 string, and therefor, could use your site for forwarding redirects. but you get the idea.
for more advanced stuff, you have mcrypt_encrypt and mcrypt_decrypt. but those will make your head hurt.


I did just realize though that you might not be pulling this stuff from a database. I guess really the way you did it is just as good technically in that case. And if you did use a database, you could just store the affiliate URL in there, and lookup by a numeric ID like you have in $das.

So i probably overthought your post. lol big surprise. (perk just rolled his eyes im sure)

[kurdt]

I think it's a bit neater code if you do it this way:

Code:

switch ($_GET['daz']) {
case '1': $link = "http://www.perksdbporn.com/?aff=69"; break;
        case '2': $link = "http://www.perksdbporn.com/?aff=69"; break;
default: $link = "http://www.google.com"; break;
}
header("Location: ".$link);

[perkiset]

Another option:

$arr[] = 'http://www.google.com';
$arr[] = 'http://www.perksdbporn.com/?aff=69';
$arr[] = 'http://www.coolporn.com/?aff=21A';
$arr[] = 'http://www.moreporn.com/?aff=110101';

header("Location: {$arr[$_GET['daz'] - 0]}");

Note the quick and dirty HTTP injection protection ( - 0 ) which also will force the zeroth array element to be selected if the $_GET parameter is not found. But to get the maximum benefit from this you'd want to be using APC or a compiler cache so that you don't have to recompile the array again. I've also been known to make huge arrays from DB tables, then serialize them, then include them as precompiled code as well. quick quick quick. If you only have a few URLs then it's no trouble to switch it: when you get into lots of options for the switch an array will be faster and easier to work with in code.

[NYDAz]

Good advices ... always a pleasure to hear from you guys

 

[serialnoob]

I've also been known to make huge arrays from DB tables, then serialize them, then include them as precompiled code as well. quick quick quick.

That's the way I do it basically because on shared hosts, apc is not always available, but

1- could clarify how huge you went? ie what is a huge array in such case.

2- serialize ? do you mean as in : unserialize(hxxp://blabla?echo(serilized(yourdbqueryresult))  ?