Huge question about JavaScript, cookies, and URLs

jairyn_1 · Post by **jairyn_1** » 2004-08-13 09:56pm

Okay...

I need to start off by saying that this is kind of complicated and I don't really know very well what I'm doing.

First off, I need to be able to take a tell-a-friend form and have it send the URL of whatever site is showing (easy part). However, I need this script or whatever to be able to include the VISIBLE URL that is showing and change it (if possible) into something entirely different.

This is really important because I need to be able to send URLs with affiliate IDs encoded.

An example of a URL that would need to be taken would be this:

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http://www.myfreeadssecret.com/?hop=verilon

...but this would need to be changed to...

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http://hop.clickbank.net/?verilon/myfas

The problem here is that it NEEDS to be the second URL so that there can be a cookie placed by ClickBank for the products being sold. However, once the 2nd link is put in, it changes to the 1st link, but the 1st link doesn't carry the affiliate cookie - BIG PROBLEM.

So would there be any kind of script that would be able to copy that first URL and extract the affiliate ID (which follows the ?hop= in the first link) and put it into the second URL (following the ? in the second link) via PHP, CGI or JavaScript?

Also, I have a script that works to copy and paste into a form, but I'm not sure how similar that is to what I'm talking about above.

Here it is..

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My Net-Marketing Center Affiliate Resource Center</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css.css" type="text/css">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 

bBool=false

var copiedtext=""
var tempstore=""

function initiatecopy() {
	bBool=true;
}

function copyit() {
	if (bBool) {
		tempstore=copiedtext
		document.execCommand("Copy")
		copiedtext=window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
			if (tempstore!=copiedtext) {
			}
		bBool=false;
	}
}

// --> 
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name=theform>
  <p>Your ClickBank nickname:
      <input maxlength=10 size=15 name=nick>
      <input onClick=javascript:go() type=button value="Generate Html" name=button>
      <script>
  function go()
  { x=document.theform.nick.value;
    if (x.length<5){alert('Please enter your full ClickBank nickname in the blank.'); return 0;}
    y=document.location.search.substring(1,11);
    y='msfas';
    document.theform.thelink1.value='http://hop.clickbank.net/?'+x+'/'+y;
    document.theform.thelink2.value='<a href=http://hop.clickbank.net/?'+x+'/'+y+'>Click here to get My SUPER Free Ads Secret -- Advanced Series NOW!</a>';
    
  }
        </script>
  </p>
  <p>Here's your affiliate hoplink url:<br>
    <textarea name=thelink1 wrap=soft cols=56 rows=1></textarea>
  </p>
  <p>Here's your affiliate hoplink in html:<br>
    <textarea name=thelink2 wrap=soft cols=56 rows=3></textarea>
  </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-13 10:02pm

Err... this appears to be rather seedy...

jairyn_1 · Post by **jairyn_1** » 2004-08-13 10:05pm

Pu-239 wrote:Err... this appears to be rather seedy...

It's entirely legitimate.