Dynamically Create Amazon Links to use your associate id
 

This one is in beta gang. Amazon seems to like to change their link style every two minutes.

What it does: It takes any link to Amazon pages on your forum and modifies the link on the fly to use your associate id. This one should make you some money - it generally works very well for my forum around Christmas time.

No screenshots. You know what an Amazon link looks like ;)

I am offereing this one with limited support. I will get it working as well as possible - in other words, correctly transforming as many links as possible. But, I can't promise it will get every link because of differences between the different vbulletin message editors, etc.

Amy

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Nice job:) Very good idea! Won't use it but good job :D

Good Job Amy

It's been available for 3.0 versions for ages.

Gang, I just wanted to note that clicking the install button is pretty important with this and other beta hacks. As I fix any little glitches I find as the code runs on my site, I update the code for you and send out update emails. I will ONLY announce these bug fixes in the update emails as my feeble attempt to entice you to click the install button.

Perhaps I'm missing something very obvious here - but why do you have a seperate file to upload - when all the plugin does is call this file ? Why not just put the code in the plugin ?

Because I am trying to make it so the file is compatible with the 3 and 2 versions because Amazon has changed its links. In addition, I should be able to hook this into private messages as well and keeping the code in one place makes it more maintainable.

Amy

Downloading to look at :)
I assume I'm gonna have to fiddle to make it work with .co.uk?


edit: What's the standard form for a US link?

Ours are like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...221647-1306012
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...TCODE/REFCODE/ ?

I don't even know what the last bit is, I assume it's some kind of session thing?

Anyway the codes at the bottom of your file look like they'd work fine with just .com replaced with .co.uk, what do you reckon?

The other ones... ours are like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...rowse/-/283926 (that's DVDs)

Again looks the same. Seems shockingly sensible (i.e. unlikely!) that both sites actually use the exact same code.



Maybe I'll just dive in and try it :o

That's what I advise. Just dive in and try. :)

Nice hack!