Get a dynamic php link from user URL

[Leon1958]

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Hi guys,
I need to change my static HTML page (i.e. http://www.mypage.com) with a link
(<a href="http://www.mypage.com/form.php"> to a page with dynamic link - if user's URL for my page is
http://www.mypage.com/?123456789 this 9-digit number from URL should appear in the link to the form - http://www.mypage.com/form.php?123456789
Thanks in advance.

[Bionic]

Hi,

I have read that a few times and I cant work out what you are looking to do. Can you explain/expand?

[Leon1958]

I will try.
I have a web page - http://internet-system.info/ (it's in Russian, but it doesn't matter) with the link on the bottom ( Fill The Form) to the form -
http://internet-system.info/form.php
I want people whom I work with (they have an ID - 9-digits number) send the visitors to the first page by providing link to http://internet-system.info?ID - the same URL but with there ID (the page visitors see is the same). If visitors continue and fill the form, the field "9-digits number" should be filled automatically with ID that will be taken from the first page's URL.
I have two files: index.html for http://internet-system.info/ and form.php
Thanks

[Bionic]

What scripting language are you using.
How is the 9 digit ID carried into the first page? Is it in a variable of some sort?

[RezaBadel]

Hi Leon,

You could set-up a request variable in PHP, for example:

$partner = $_REQUEST['ID'];

Then in your URL have the parameter named the same as what you are requesting i.e. www.mypage.com/?ID=123456789

This way you can then use the variable $partner to pass into your form with the other values as well as possibly set a cookie so if the same user arrives at the site with a new ID you can update the cookie etc. Also you could include this value in your buy.at affiliate links so that the partner ID is passed into the buy.at LID (Link ID) parameter:

http://merchant.at/affhandle?LID=<<echo out $partner value>>

Then any subsequent sales can be attributed back to the partners you are working with.

Hope that helps!

Kind regards,

Reza
Solutions Engineer
buy.at
reza.badel@buy.at

[Leon1958]

No script in the first page. Everyone takes my URL - http://internet-system.info and ads his ID (with question mark) - http://internet-system.info?ID

[Leon1958]

Thank you, Reza,
but I don't know PHP at all and can't write a code.
I thought it could be two tasks:
1. the variable (ID) from URL
http://internet-system.info/?ID=123456789 "transferred" somehow to the link to form -
href="http://internet-system.info/form.php?ID=123456789"
2. the variable (ID) from form's URL
http://internet-system.info/form.php?ID=123456789 passes to the form (the other values are filled by visitors).

If the script is simple I'd like somebody just writes it ready for use.

Thanks

[Brett]

You need to do the following.

On index.html

replace

<a href="form.php"><img src="form_button.jpg" width="280" height="47" /></a>

with something like

//check if ID exists in current url
<?php
if ($_GET['ID']<>"") {
$ID=$_GET['ID'];
$ID = $_GET['ID'];
?>

//if ID does exist then append it to the new link

<a href="form.php?ID=<?php echo $ID;?>"><img src="form_button.jpg" width="280" height="47" /></a>
<?php

//if it doesn't then display the normal link
else {
?>
<a href="form.php"><img src="form_button.jpg" width="280" height="47" /></a>
<?php
}
?>

Then on form.php you'd need to do this:

<form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<?php 
if ($_GET['ID']<>"") {
$id=$_GET['ID'];
?>
<input type='hidden' name='partner' value='<?php echo $id;?>'>
<?php
}
?>

Then when your form gets submitted you'll get an additional field passed through that shows the ID field.

Brett

[Leon1958]

Thank you Brett,
I will try it, may be it's what I'm looking for