Amy,

Is this right? I posted this link.....
and it changed it to this...

It loses the 002-5061230-3600869 and adds a extra /
Not sure but I also think the dealmeinnet-20 part is the persons ID from where I grabbed the link to post to my site.. :(

Nope. It's not. It needs to kill the dealmeinnet-20 part or you won't get credit. When you post a link to a product, it does kill any other referral links. But, it may have issues when you post a link to a general page.

I have good news and bad news.

First the good news. This hack will be trivial to port over to 3.5 as a plugin. It won't require any code edits on your part when I release it.

Now the bad news. Amazon has changed their affilliate link format again. The links to direct products are working still, but the rest is not. So, those of you who are using this hack are probably seeing a drop in revenue.

I'm working on getting it fixed, but parsing the urls has been less than fun. I'm not sure why Amazon keeps changing how they do their links. You would think they would leave well enough alone.

Amy

ported to 3.5
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=166

I just added a new zip file called update.php. In it, there is a new version of functions_amazon.php. Please give it a try as it handles the new link formatting style that Amazon now employs. I am running this version of the file on my 3.5 board with no problems. If a few of you 3.0.x guys let me know that it works for you, I will replace the file in the original zip with the new one.

I just installed the update, and here are the results.

Random affiliate link found on the web:

gets changed to this:

which doesn't work. I'm guessing it's the double slashes. But I could be wrong. I did try the URL with only one of those slashes, and it takes me to the product page.

I'm going to look it over to see if I can find anything. But thanks Amy for your contribution. I'll probably head over to your forum to join. :)

Well, now that link seems to work. Not sure why...

Let me do some playing around tomorrow with different links to see how it goes. It's getting a little late here.

Thanks again. :)

The double slashes don't mess it up on my site. I haven't seen this version of the mod break, but it's not the heavy time for my users to be using it yet.

Amy

Amy, this modification would be absolutely perfect for my site, but I'm having some trouble with it.

I followed your instructions and here's what happens:

Test 1 is where I just copied and pasted a link from amazon into a post.

Test 2 is where I used the Insert Hyperlink button in the post and typed in the text "this is using a hyperlink button in a post".

Can you give me any ideas about what I'll need to change? I'm using vBulletin 3.03.

Thanks for any help you can provide.
Mary

So does this hack work still at all for V3.0.X?

and if so which ZIP do I need? the original one or the update one?