Local Tracking Cookie Code

[hussein787]

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Hi,

I'm not sure if anyone on this forum has done this before but if you have you may be able to help.

As a merchant we are registered with quite a few affiliate networks and one of them is webgains. If a customer buys from us and redirected to the site from a webgains affiliate through the "source=webgains" attached to the end of the landing page url we need to be able to track this throughout the entire checkout process.

SO webgains have asked us to implement a local tracking cookie in order to do this. the logic for the cookie is like below:

if the customer came from a webgains affiliate link then process the webgains code

else if the customer came from another affiliate then process their code

else if the customer came from another affiliate then process their code

etc etc

This is in order for the sale commission to go to webgains only

I am trying to implement a PHP cookie in order to do this, the landing page url info is "source=webgains" but I need to know how to track this and apply to the logic above

the php cookie looks something like this

setcookie(name, value, expire, path, domain);

and to retrieve I assume on the checkout success page would be

<?php

echo $_COOKIE[" "];

?>

Any help would me much appreciated

[D-Mac]

Here is a basic solution:

You need two include files. The first is referenced from all landing pages:

<?php
$source = $_GET['source'];
if ($source != null)
{
    $expiry = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 + time(); // 30 days time
    setcookie('source', $source, $expiry, "/");
}
?>

The second on the checkout page:

<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE['source']))
    $source = $_COOKIE['source']; 

if ($source == 'webgains')
    echo "do the webgains thing";
else if ($source == 'tradedoubler')
    echo "do the tradedoubler thing";
?>

Have fun :-)

[srubin]

Thanks D-Mac

[hussein787]

Thanks for the reply, will try it out, seth you probably have a better understanding as well now?