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Dynamically Create Amazon Links to use your associate id · **Released**: 07-17-2005

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.

reteep · #62 09-09-2007, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tralala

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

Oh yea sorry, I adapted it for amazon.de. Just change it back to amazon.com, the important part is this here:

Code:

/ASIN".$asin[0]."ref=nosim/"

I removed the slash in front of ref

Tralala · #63 09-09-2007, 11:43 AM

Gotcha, thanks!

Didi R. · #64 09-18-2007, 05:25 PM

Thx a lot. Great addon. works perfect!

Alfa1 · #65 09-18-2007, 07:54 PM

Does this addon work out of the box or does it need code modification?

weeno · #66 11-19-2007, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

1. Yes. It won't change your current affiliate links.
2. This version only works on new messages. The 3.0 version worked on all of them. Jelsoft changed the way urls are parsed - hence the change.

Is there no way to make this parse posts while they are being rendered/displayed to replace links on-the-fly? I'm not that familiar with hook locations, but it seems this code could be run right before the post is displayed by showthread.

edit:
oh wait.... this may be an old post... looks ilke it does work on existing posts. right?

arn

felxi · #67 11-20-2007, 01:26 PM

I made some different fixes and this script works now with vBulletin 3.6.8. The code is not the best but seems to work much better. E.g. [ url=xxx]yyy[ /url] links will be replaces correctly. problems with missing tags like [/font][/size] behind the amazon link will be solved. there can also be an image in the post and the link will be replaced and some other small fixes.

new code for vB 3.6.8

PHP Code:


			
<?php

function process_amazon_links($message) {

    // Convert any amazon links to use your affilliate id.

    // enter your associate id here

    $associate_id = "your-id-here";



    if(preg_match_all("/(\"\])/",$message,$tagarray)) {

        for($i=0;$i<count($tagarray[1]);$i++) {

            $tagarray[1][$i] = $tagarray[1][$i]." ";

        }

        $message = str_replace($tagarray[0],$tagarray[1],$message);

    }



    $message = str_replace('[url=', '[URL=', $message);

    $message = str_replace('[url]', '[URL]', $message);

    $message = str_replace('[/url]', '[/URL]', $message);





    if(preg_match_all("/(http:\/\/(?:[A-z0-9\.]+)?amazon.de\/\S+)/", $message, $messagearray)) {

        for($i=0;$i<count($messagearray[1]);$i++) {

            if(!stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"$associate_id") && strpos($messagearray[1][$i], '[img]') === false &&  strpos($messagearray[1][$i], '[IMG]') === false) {

                $strippedurl = preg_split("/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{3}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{7}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{7}/", $messagearray[1][$i]);

                    $messagearray[1][$i] = $strippedurl[0].$strippedurl[1];



                 // Look for an asin number

                if(!preg_match("/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{10}\//", $messagearray[1][$i],$asin)) {

                    if(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/")) {

                        $strippedurl = preg_split("/http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/exec\/obidos\//",$messagearray[1][$i]);

                        $messagearray[1][$i] = $strippedurl[0].$strippedurl[1];

                    }



                    if(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"[/URL]")) {

                        $strippedurl = preg_split("/\[\/URL\]/",$messagearray[1][$i]);

                        $messagearray[1][$i] = $strippedurl[0].$strippedurl[1];

                        $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=".$associate_id."&creative=9325&path=".urlencode(str_replace('[/URL]', '', $messagearray[1][$i]))."[/URL]";

                    } else {

                        $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=".$associate_id."&creative=9325&path=".urlencode($messagearray[1][$i]);

                     }

                 } else {

                     if(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],'"]')) {

                        $bracketarray[0]='"]';

                        $bracketarrayrep[0] = '"] ';

                        $messagearray[1][$i]= str_replace($bracketarray,$bracketarrayrep,$messagearray[1][$i]);

                         $messagearray[1][$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;

                       }

                 }





                if($pos = strpos($messagearray[0][$i], '[/URL]')) {

                    $ext_str = substr($messagearray[0][$i], $pos+6);

                    if(strpos($messagearray[1][$i], $ext_str) === false) {

                        $messagearray[1][$i] .= $ext_str;

                    }

                }



                if(preg_match('/\](.*)\[\/URL\]/', $messagearray[0][$i], $out)) {

                    $messagearray[1][$i] = substr_replace($messagearray[1][$i], $out[0], strpos($messagearray[1][$i], '[/URL]'), 6 );

                }

            }

        }

    }



    $message=str_replace($messagearray[0],$messagearray[1],$message);

    return $message;

}

?>

please let me know if u have some problems. dont forget to replace amazon.de with amazon.com.

weeno · #68 11-22-2007, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by felxi

I made some different fixes and this script works now with vBulletin 3.6.8. The code is not the best but seems to work much better. E.g. [ url=xxx]yyy[ /url] links will be replaces correctly. problems with missing tags like [/font][/size] behind the amazon link will be solved. there can also be an image in the post and the link will be replaced and some other small fixes.

Hi, thanks for posting.

You code, however, does not appear to work for

[URL="http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-970155-0403-V20-Notebook-Speakers/dp/B0009WKBGC"]these[/URL]

results in...

[url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=AFFILIATECODE &creative=9325&path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F Logitech-970155-0403-V20-Notebook-Speakers%2Fdp%2FB0009WKBGC%22%5D these[/URL]

felxi · #69 11-22-2007, 08:42 PM

I rewrote this modification completely within the last hours.

have a look at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163393

Coop1979 · #70 02-07-2009, 03:15 AM

I just PM'd the coder. I offered financial compensation to update the mod, so hopefully that will help!

wraggster · #71 03-22-2011, 10:07 AM

ok got this working nicely in VB3.8.7 for amazon UK

basically did this

PHP Code:


			
<?php



function process_amazon_links($message)

{





// Convert any amazon links to use your affilliate id.



// enter your associate id here



$associate_id = "dcemu-21";



   if(preg_match_all("/(\"\])/",$message,$tagarray))

   {

      for($i=0;$i<count($tagarray[1]);$i++)

      {

         $tagarray[1][$i] = $tagarray[1][$i]." ";

      }

     $message=str_replace($tagarray[0],$tagarray[1],$message);   

   }

     if(!preg_match_all("/(\[img\S+)/",$message,$messagearray)){

   if(preg_match_all("/(http:\/\/[A-z0-9\.]+amazon.co.uk\/\S+)/",$message,$messagearray))

   {

     

          for($i=0;$i<count($messagearray[1]);$i++)

          {

               if(!stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"$associate_id"))

              {

                     $strippedurl = preg_split("/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{3}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{7}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{7}/", $messagearray[1][$i]);

                     $messagearray[1][$i] = $strippedurl[0].$strippedurl[1];

                      // Look for an asin number

                    if(!preg_match("/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]{10}\//", $messagearray[1][$i],$asin))

                    {

                         if(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/"))

                         {

                              $strippedurl = preg_split("/http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\//",$messagearray[1][$i]);

                              $messagearray[1][$i] = $strippedurl[0].$strippedurl[1];

                         }

                 

                         if(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"[/url]"))

                         {

                             $strippedurl = preg_split("/\[\/url\]/",$messagearray[1][$i]);

                            $messagearray[1][$i] = $strippedurl[0].$strippedurl[1];

                             $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=".$associate_id."&creative=9325&path=".$messagearray[1][$i]."[/url]";

                         }

                         else

                         {

                            $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=".$associate_id."&creative=9325&path=".$messagearray[1][$i];



                         }

                     }

                     else

                     {

                         if(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],'"]'))

                         {

                         $bracketarray[0]='"]';

                         $bracketarrayrep[0] = '"] ';

                         $messagearray[1][$i]= str_replace($bracketarray,$bracketarrayrep,$messagearray[1][$i]);

                         $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."/ref=nosim/" . $associate_id.'"]';

                     }

                     elseif(stristr($messagearray[1][$i],"[/url]"))

                     {

                         $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."/ref=nosim/" . $associate_id."[/url]";

                     }

                     else

                     {

                         $messagearray[1][$i] = "http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN".$asin[0]."/ref=nosim/" . $associate_id;

                     }

                 }

    

               }

          }

       }

   $message=str_replace($messagearray[0],$messagearray[1],$message);   

   }

   return $message;

}





?>

you can use this plugin for amazon uk and https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163393 for amazon usa at same time, works a treat.

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