How can I pass URL Parameters to a new URL in ‘meta refresh content’ ?

@belperJun 01.2011

Hello,

Could anyone help me with next problem:

Visitors come to a website through a Clickbank affiliatelink
http: //nick.vendor.hop.clickbank.net
But they will land on different websites based on an URL parameter, for example
http: //nick.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=prod1 they’ll go to www.websiteA.com

http: //nick.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=prod2 they’ll go to www.websiteB.com

http: //nick.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=prod3 they’ll go to www.websiteC.com

remark : nick is also variable (it is the affiliates name), so links could be:
http: //NICK.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=PROD1 or prod2 etc…
or
http: //JOHN.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=PROD1 or prod2 etc…
or
http: //CHARLES.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=PROD1 or prod2 etc…

Clickbank is linking to a page (based on the Clickbank account configuration) including following parameters, where a script will redirect the visitor to the right website
http: //www.mylandingwebsite.com/linkpage.php?hop=nick&x=prod1
So there are 2 variable parameters (value of hop and value of x)!

The problem is that with the ‘meta refresh content’ the parameters are not passed to the new URL.
For example:
The link http: //nick.vendor.hop.clickbank.net?x=prod1 should lead to or result in
http: //www.websiteA.com?hop=nick (with a 60 days cookie so that the affiliate still gets his commission if the visitor decide to come back later and buy). Obviously I only need the hop=’value’ at the final website.

This is the code I have so far (it leads to the right website based on ‘x=’ but it doesn’t pass the ‘hop=’ value , nick or john or charles or whatsoever)
Linkpage.php

[CODE] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /> <title>Doorlinken</title> </head>

<body> <?php if(isset($_GET[‘x’])) { if($_GET[‘x’] == “prod1″) { echo ‘<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content= “0;URL=http://www.websiteA.com” />’; } elseif($_GET[‘x’] == “prod2″) { echo ‘<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content= “0;URL=http://www.websiteB.com” />’; } elseif($_GET[‘x’] == “prod3″) { echo ‘<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content= “0;URL=http://wwwwebsiteC.com” />’; } } else echo ‘<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content= “0;URL=http://www.website.com/products.php” />’;

?> </body> </html> [/CODE]

So the result should be content= “0;URL=http://www.websiteA.com?hop=nick” or john or …
And do I need the head-section? Or just the script between < ?php and ? >

Thanks in advance for your help,

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@belperauthorJun 01.2011 — #Hello,

I notice that I didn’t explain my problem clearly and simply enough.

So I will try to reformulate it.

Visitors come to a webpage through following URL

http: //www.mywebsite.com/linkpage.php?hop=affiliatename&x=productname

affiliatename is a variable parameter, so it can be anything

productname is also a variable parameter, and the value of it is used to redirect to another website;

Example:

If x=prod1 redirect to http: //www.websiteA.com

Or if x=prod2 redirect to http: //www.websiteB.com

Or if x=prod3 redirect to http: //www.websiteC.com

If none of these values redirect to http: //www.myotherwebsite.com

However the new URL should also contain the variable parameter hop=affiliatename

(from http: //www.mywebsite.com/linkpage.php?hop=affiliatename&x=productname)

So in case of

x=prod1 the new URL should be http: //www.websiteA.com?hop=affiliatename

x=prod2 the new URL should be http: //www.websiteB.com?hop=affiliatename

x=prod3 the new URL should be http: //www.websiteC.com?hop=affiliatename

or else http: //www.myotherwebsite.com?hop=affiliatename

and together with the new URL there should be set a 60 days cookie so that the affiliate still gets his commission if the visitor decide to come back later and buy.

Based on the parameter x=prod redirect to a new website is not a problem. It is working in my script (maybe a newbie script, but it is working. However a more simple and/or professional script would be welcome). The real problem is that the variable parameter hop=affiliatename should be passed in the new URL and to set a 60 days cookie.

I really hope I exposed my problem more clearly now.

Once again thanks in advance to everyone willing to help me.

@belperauthorJun 04.2011 — #Here is a solution I found, used by other Clickbank vendors and that seems to do the job as needed for a Clickbank vendor.

Create a page (let us call it redirect.php)

[CODE] 

 <?php
 $redirects = array(
 “prod1&#8243; => “http://www.websiteA.com”,
 “prod2&#8243; => “http://www. websiteB.com”,
 “prod3&#8243; => “http://www. websiteC.com”
 );
 $x = $_GET["x"];
 if (array_key_exists($x, $redirects)) {
 $go = $redirects[$x];
 header(“Location:$go”);
 die();
 }
 ?>
 [/CODE]

In the landing page http: //www.website.com/products.php (this was the page in my example if x did not exist or if x=non valid value) add this code:

[CODE]<?php include(“redirect.php”); ?>[/CODE]

Remark: 1/ This line has to be at the very very start of that page, so it has to be the very first line of your code on that page. 2/ Your landing page has to be a PHP extension. If your page is “http: //www.website.com/products.html” is has to be changed in “http: //www.website.com/products.php”

I wish to thank all the people that helped me and provided ideas to solve this problem.

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