Amazon Associates Hack for VB3

This hack converts any US amazon link posted on your board to use your affilliate id and is based of some work Logician did for me in Vbulletin 2, but is an improved rewrite. The old version did not track well with Amazon because it did not strip out Amazon session ids.

Please note that you need to change my affilliate id to use yours.

Also note that the chunk of code you are looking for in edit.php may not be an exact match in your file. You are looking for the query that updates the post table with the edited post.

Regarding Update.zip Update.zip contains a new functions_amazon.php that I would like some people to try out before I add to the regular zip file. The new function handles Amazon's new link format, and I believe, works better than the original function. Please LET ME KNOW if you try it and it works for you.

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[Phalynx]

Good tool, thanks.

[amykhar]

Is anybody actively using it? Found any link rendering problems? I know that it's tracking items very well and I am getting credit for purchases - even direct links to products. My one concern is that with people using different editors (WYSIWYG, enhanced, and guided, etc.) that some of the urls might get botched.

If no problems have been reported in a couple of weeks, I'll move on to getting this working in the PM system as well.

Amy

[amykhar]

This hack is now out of beta. Enjoy.

[bold]

Originally Posted by amykhar

This hack is now out of beta. Enjoy.

Thanks for the hack. Do i replace epinionaddicts?

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by bold

Thanks for the hack. Do i replace epinionaddicts?

Yes, you do.

[boatdesign]

Awesome modification - thank you very much!!!

Only problem is that for some reason it is working fine for me if I use the Enhanced editor, but if I use the Standard editor it is not working at all it seems. I cannot figure out how to get it to work with the standard editor...

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by boatdesign

Awesome modification - thank you very much!!!

Only problem is that for some reason it is working fine for me if I use the Enhanced editor, but if I use the Standard editor it is not working at all it seems. I cannot figure out how to get it to work with the standard editor...

Let me check the code when I get home. I may have tweaked something else that I forgot to put in the instructions.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Let me check the code when I get home. I may have tweaked something else that I forgot to put in the instructions.

Try this:

In the file includes/functions_newpost.php Find:

		$urlReplaceArray = array(
			"http://\\2\\4"
		);

Replace with:

		$urlReplaceArray = array(
			"\\2\\4"
		);

For some reason, vbulletin developers decided to put urls in the database differently depending on the editor used. This just makes the standard editor urls the same format as the WYSIWYG.

I'll add this to the text file.

Amy

[rinkrat]

Great idea!! I love this!!

[boatdesign]

Fantastic!!! Thanks very very much Amy

(and I'm sorry I didn't say thank you earlier - because of the way vbulletin doesn't leave the url statements in the code, they looked exactly the same to me when I first saw the reply, but if you hit quote you can see the difference.

Thanks again so much - works great!