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Dynamic Amazon Links · **Released**: 11-21-2007

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

buro9 · #82 03-19-2009, 06:13 PM

BTW. If anyone is using AME and has the definition file... whoever submitted the Amazon re-write for that is hijacking your affiliate earnings.

Hidden_Gamma · #83 03-20-2009, 03:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buro9

BTW. If anyone is using AME and has the definition file... whoever submitted the Amazon re-write for that is hijacking your affiliate earnings.

What's AME?

buro9 · #84 03-20-2009, 05:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hidden_Gamma

What's AME?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202476

And these are the definitions:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=195884

And someone with an Amazon affiliate of "citofgamonlco-20" is hijacking the earnings.

And you can see that here from the number of vBulletins he is earning from:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=citofgamonlco-20

Hidden_Gamma · #85 03-20-2009, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buro9

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202476

And these are the definitions:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=195884

And someone with an Amazon affiliate of "citofgamonlco-20" is hijacking the earnings.

And you can see that here from the number of vBulletins he is earning from:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=citofgamonlco-20

Oh, what a jackass. I hope he has been reported to Amazon and whatever other authorities handle that sort of thing.

:erm:

Hidden_Gamma · #86 03-20-2009, 09:30 PM

Okay, I have this working, somewhat, under 3.8.1 PL1 using the hack to get multi-level domains, but the problem is, it is adding my affiliate IDs to all the URLs other than my my two multilevel domain affiliate IDs for Amazon UK and Amazon Japan.

I think it may have something to do with the preg_match section, which I keep trying to tweak to get working, but to no avail. Maybe someone here can help me out? Here's the code as I am using, with my affiliate IDs redacted:

PHP Code:


			
<?php
function amazon_links($text) {

    /*
     * your partnernet ids
     */
    $associate_id_co_uk = 'azn-id'; // or leave empty
    $associate_id_co_jp = 'azn-id'; // or leave empty
    $associate_id_de = 'azn-id'; // or leave empty    
    $associate_id_com = 'azn-id'; // or leave empty
    $associate_id_ca = 'azn-id'; // or leave empty

    /*
     * tag=xxx and ref=xxx will be replaced with your associate id in non asin links
     */
    $replace_targt_urls = true; // true or false
          // reeplace arrays
    $replace_src = array();
    $replace_str = array();

    // check for [url="amazon-link"]some text[/url]
    if(preg_match_all("/\[url\=(?:\")?(http:\/\/(?:[A-z0-9\.]+)?amazon\.(co\.uk|co\.jp|de|com|ca)\/(?:.+))(?:\")?](.+)\[\/url\]/iU", $text, $out)) {
        for($i=0;$i<count($out[1]);$i++) {
            $associate_id = ${'associate_id_'.str_replace('.','_',$out[2][$i])};
            $out[4][$i] = $out[1][$i];

            if($associate_id && !empty($associate_id)) {
                // Look for an asin number
                if(preg_match("/\/[A-Z0-9]{10}(\/)?/", $out[1][$i], $asin) && strpos($out[1][$i], '/review') === false) {
                    if(substr($asin[0], -1) != '/') { $asin[0] .= '/'; }
                    $out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/ASIN'.$asin[0].'ref=nosim/'.$associate_id;
                } else {
                    $target_url = $out[1][$i];
                    if($replace_targt_urls) {
                        $target_url = preg_replace('/ref\=([a-z0-9\-]{3,})\-([0-9]{2})/iU', 'ref='.$associate_id, $target_url);
                        $target_url = preg_replace('/tag\=([a-z0-9\-]{3,})\-([0-9]{2})/iU', 'tag='.$associate_id, $target_url);
                    }

                    $out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag='.$associate_id.'&creative=9325&path='.urlencode($target_url);
                }

                $replace_src[] = '[url="'.$out[4][$i].'"]';
                $replace_str[] = '[url="'.$out[1][$i].'"]';

                $replace_src[] = '[url='.$out[4][$i].']';
                $replace_str[] = '[url='.$out[1][$i].']';

                $replace_src[] = '[url="'.$out[4][$i].'"]';
                $replace_str[] = '[url="'.$out[1][$i].'"]';

                $replace_src[] = '[url='.$out[4][$i].']';
                $replace_str[] = '[url='.$out[1][$i].']';
            }
        }
    } unset($out);
    
    // check for [url]amazon-link[/url]
    if(preg_match_all("/\[url\](http:\/\/(?:[A-z0-9\.]+)?amazon\.(co\.uk|co\.jp|de|com|ca)\/(?:.+))\[\/url\]/iU", $text, $out)) {
        for($i=0;$i<count($out[1]);$i++) {
            $associate_id = ${'associate_id_'.str_replace('.','_',$out[2][$i])};
            $out[4][$i] = $out[1][$i];

            if($associate_id && !empty($associate_id)) {
                // Look for an asin number
                if(preg_match("/\/[A-Z0-9]{10}(\/)?/", $out[1][$i], $asin) && strpos($out[1][$i], '/review') === false) {
                    if(substr($asin[0], -1) != '/') { $asin[0] .= '/'; }
                    $out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/ASIN'.$asin[0].'ref=nosim/'.$associate_id;
                } else {
                    $target_url = $out[1][$i];
                    if($replace_targt_urls) {
                        $target_url = preg_replace('/ref\=([a-z0-9\-]{3,})\-([0-9]{2})/iU', 'ref='.$associate_id, $target_url);
                        $target_url = preg_replace('/tag\=([a-z0-9\-]{3,})\-([0-9]{2})/iU', 'tag='.$associate_id, $target_url);
                    }

                    $out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag='.$associate_id.'&creative=9325&path='.urlencode($target_url);
                }

                $displayed_link = $out[4][$i];
                if(strlen($displayed_link) > 55) {
                    $displayed_link = substr($displayed_link, 0, 36).'...'.substr($displayed_link, -14);
                }


                $replace_src[] = '[url]'.$out[4][$i].'[/url]';
                $replace_str[] = '[url="'.$out[1][$i].'"]'.$displayed_link."[/url]";

                $replace_src[] = '[url]'.$out[4][$i].'[/url]';
                $replace_str[] = '[url="'.$out[1][$i].'"]'.$displayed_link."[/url]";
            }
        }
    } unset($out);


    // replace the message
    if(isset($replace_src[0])) {
        $text = str_replace($replace_src, $replace_str, $text);
    } unset($replace_src, $replace_str);

    return $text;
}
?>

Hidden_Gamma · #87 03-20-2009, 10:04 PM

And now I'm getting this error message:

Quote:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/bluray/public_html/forum/includes/functions_amazon_links.php
Line: 101

Okay, never mind, this error is fixed, but the piece of code above is working for everything, including embedded links, except for the multi-level .co.uk and .co.jp domains, which I can't seem to get to work no matter what I do.

Hidden_Gamma · #88 03-23-2009, 11:04 PM

One more update, this plugin also won't work on URLs in the Calendar. So, to sum up, it won't work for the multi-level .uk and .jp domains, and it won't add the affiliate ID's to URLs posted in the Calendar -- that's where I'm at with this on a 3.8.1 PL1 board using the hack for mutli-level domains.

RedWingFan · #89 06-02-2009, 05:11 AM

Can't get it to work on 3.7.2. The preg_match looks for the ASIN number, correct? If so, then the format of Amazon's link shouldn't matter, if the ASIN appears as below:

http://www.amazon.com/No-Line-Horizo...3921433&sr=1-1

Hidden_Gamma · #90 06-02-2009, 01:46 PM

I now have 3.8.2 installed and the status is still the same for me with this plugin -- it won't work for .uk and .jp multilevel domains or in te VB calendar.

RedWingFan · #91 06-02-2009, 08:46 PM

For now, I've disabled the plugin. When I get time, I may dissect the function and toss out some variables to see how it is working.

(EDIT: Disregard the following...my error...) For the .co.uk and .co.jp domains, I need those as well. I know that the regex for (co\.uk|co\.jp|de|com|ca) should work (syntax looks correct, and the dots are escaped properly), but I wonder how the script is parsing the $associate_id_co_uk and $associate_id_co_jp variable names, as they have one extra set of underscore and characters than the others. I wonder if that's where the problem lies...? That's why I want to look into the function more to see how it is setting the variables, if only for me to understand how it works overall. It's the regular expressions I sometimes get hung up on.

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