Miscellaneous Hacks - Dynamic Amazon Links

Description
This Hack will easily rewrite all amazon links whitin the posts to your associate id. You can add your amazon.de and amazon.com associate id, links to both amazon stores will be replaced with the right id, it works fine with multilanguage boards.

vBulletin
vB 3.6.x working
vB 3.5.x working

updating
just upload the functions_amazon_links.php from the zip and don't forget to insert your amazon ids.

Change Log
25/11/2007 v1.05
- support for [ url=xxx]yyy[ /url]
- replacement for tag=xxx and ref=xxx in non asin links
- small fix for /preview/ links

24/11/2007 v1.04
- [url]amazon-link[ /url] long amazon links will be shorten vb like

23/11/2007 v1.03
- [url] and [url="xxx"] will be repleaced

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by pingso

how can "ref=nosim" be removed ?

You don't need to remove it. It works fine with it in the link or not in the link. Amazon doesn't care.

I've got several links on various sites that contain "ref=nosim". They take the visitor to the correct page and I get credit for any purchases resulting from that click.

[Majora]

Is the following amazon affiliate link correct?
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASI...wipadteamde-21

[metrika]

Can it be adapted to work with amazon.(whatever) ?

[abcsplus]

Nope, not working with 4.2.1 Are there any other scripts out there?

[Dabbi]

I'd really like to see this and the ebay one for 4.2.1 as well please. It worked so well for us before the upgrade.

[StarBuG]

I use it on 4.2.1 and it works.
No changes needed except adding the ID.

It only changes the URLs on the fly so if you edit the text you wont see your affiliate id in the link.

[tpearl5]

FYI, making a mod like this to work with 4.2.2 and dynamically update Amazon links based on specific criteria.

Also, the links that are rewritten via this mod are dated and not using the current format.