Referal Links

[Guest SupaFly]

I am intrested in creting referal Links for the members of my website.Exmple: www.URL.com/referal.php?id=30I believe this can only be created in php (could be wrong)If anyone has any help/ideas or suggestions, it is greatly appriciated.Thank you in advance, Supa.

[Skemcin]

there are a few ways to do this. You can tag on a url variable like you have using php, asp or cold fusion. Now depending on what you want to do once you get there will dictate what you do next. If that referral is going to mean something, then you will have have to set that id=30 to a cookie or session variable so you can use it later for a discount or fro a counter of the referred site.However, if you are just looking for a reporting mechanism, then I'd even jsut suggest creating a uniwue URL like http://www.myurl.com/referral/1y/ and http://www.myurl.com/referral/2y/ and so on. Then simply keep track of which url is for which referree and have the url forward to what ever place you desire. Then using your web hosting statistic package, run reports on each unique URL. This is actually how you are supposed to uses URL for marketing, but it could work for your situation - again depending on the end intention.