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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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.

[amykhar]

Yes it works. No, it's not supported by Amazon - although they did help me with testing of initial versions. No, it doesn't work for Buy.com

[logastro]

Your plugin works fine on my vBulletin 3.6 forum. Why don't you post it on vB3.6 Add-ons?

[masons]

works perfect on my 3.6.5! awesome!

[VietPirates]

From Amazon

Just as with other ASINs you can also use the format below to build links directly to Unbox products. Simply substitute the corresponding Unbox ASIN for "B000LEIOOY" and your Associates ID for "assocblog-20."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LEIOOY/?tag=assocblog-20

[Phillip Chapman]

I've been using this hack for a long time. Very nice.

I did have a question though. I noticed under my plugin manager that the title of this hack is listed as "vBulletin" instead of "Dynamically Create Amazon Links". Likewise under manage products, this plugin isn't listed at all.

Can this possibly be updated? Thank you Amy for all of your work on this.

[dpatel304]

I got this working for the most part, however, my referral links have an extra "/" in it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000NHG7CK//ref=nosim/*****-20

right before ref=nos

Is this normal, and will this affect anything?

[dpatel304]

Sorry to bump, but can anyone answer my above post? Thank you.

[reteep]

Same here:

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934958664//ref=nosim/XXX-21

[reteep]

Ok this is fixing it the additional slash, replace line 59-68 with this:

$messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/" . $associate_id.'"]';
         			}
         			elseif(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"[/url]"))
         			{
         				$messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/" . $associate_id."[/url]";
         			}
         			else
         			{
         				$messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/" . $associate_id;
         			}

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by reteep

Ok this is fixing it the additional slash, replace line 59-68 with this:

$messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/" . $associate_id.'"]';
         			}
         			elseif(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"[/url]"))
         			{
         				$messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/" . $associate_id."[/url]";
         			}
         			else
         			{
         				$messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/" . $associate_id;
         			}

Looks like all that does is replace the amazon.com with amazon.de?
How would that fix the extra slash???