Links to Amazon
 

I have a shopping forum, and quite often people post links to sales items at Amazon. My board is an affilliate of Amazon, ergo I would like to transform any Amazon links to point to my affilliate account.

All it takes is appending a slash and the affilliate name at the end of the link.

So, basically, as URLs are entered in a message, the hack needs to see if it points to amazon.com. If it does, it needs to modify the link to the affilliate link.

This would probably be a useful hack for others besides myself. Anyone have any thoughts on how to do it?

Amy

edited for bug fix.. check below

This would be great -- Amy are you using it?

(Thanks Logician!)

I haven't had time to try it yet.

Going to try right now :D

Amy

The code is throwing errors. Pretty sure it has something to do with the quotes in the urls. Working on ironing out the kinks.

Amy

Can you specify the errors? What's the url before parsed and after parsed?

Code seems to work correctly here..

Parse error: parse error in /home/eaforums/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 644

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbdate() in /home/eaforums/public_html/admin/sessions.php on line 356

Vbulletin changed the code while it's parsed here. ;)

I attached the code into a text file, please apply from there and you'll be fine..

Please notice: The code is 2 lines, not 4! So do not break the lines in between! There are only 2 linebreaks inside, both after the

$bbcode);

lines.

Does it work?

Sorry, I had to be away for a few days. It doesn't quite work. If I give it a link to a specific product, say

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...878268-1024166

It truncates all the product information and gives me

http://www.amazon.com/affiliatesite instead of

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS.../affiliatesite

Amy