RE: FN-FORUM Visitor tracking

date posted 26th January 2001 10:21

Hi Ray,

You can position the little piece of code within any page needed. Depending
on the other information (if any) held within the 'QUERY_STRING' just tack
it on and split as required.

I've personally never used php but i imagine the process is similar to perl
in regard to server variables etc, i'll happily take a look at your php
script if you have problems, and try to offer a helpful suggestion if i can
understand it.

Might be useful to have a look here:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/annotate/message.php3?id=1002690

Cheers

Gary.





-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Ray McGinty
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:42 AM
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Visitor tracking


Hi Gary,

>I've recently implemented something similar, basically every partner is
>assigned a unique id number,
>this id is then incorporated within the URL the partner uses to link to
your
>site. When a user clicks on the URL you can determine where they are coming
>from and store/pass this id anyway you choose and log it along with the
>order details.
>
>I have this script in perl somewhere and would be happy to dig it out for
>you if required, but basically writing it off the top of my head it was
>something like:-
>
[EMAIL REMOVED] = split (/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
>$shop_id = $values[0];
>
[EMAIL REMOVED] /, $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'});
>
> foreach $pair [EMAIL REMOVED] { ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
>$cookie{$name} = $value; }
>
>$session = $cookie{'refer'};
>
>print "Content-type: text/html", "
";
>print "Set-Cookie: refer=$shop_id; path=/", "

";
>
>Not the best example but hope it points you in the right direction.

I'll probably try to put something together similar to this in PHP (cos
thats the only scripting language I know!) Where does your script go? On
the entry page to your site used by the referrer?

TIA

Ray McGinty


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