PHP redirect for cloaked link

[Vanquish]

How do I cloak my link using PHP. Keep in mind i do not know what PHP means but i have heard it is the safest and most effective way to cloak your link any advice/ tutorials would be apprechiated.

[danielmcclure]

Create a text file with the code posted below and name it PRODUCTNAME.php then link to that from your page.

<?php
$url='PRODUCTURL';
header("Location: $url");
exit();
?>

[John Wilkes]

A way to cloak your link for free would be to create an intermediate page to which you link, instead of directly.
You can create this in a simple text editor. It is only a couple of lines. Do not add anything else or it will not work.

you would create your affiliate link as



<?php

header("Location:http://www.theaddress-you-want-to-send-the-visitor.too");

?>



Save this with a "safe" sounding name or the name of the software you are promoting as a php file.
For this example we could call it "secure.php"



This is now the file that you link to, instead of the final destination , (e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/secure.php)



or for a text link, inserted as html code in your article page,



<a href=" http://www.mydomain.com/secure.php">Click here for Article </a>



This will be the address that shows up at the bottom of the web page when your visitor hovers or clicks on the link, not your affiliate link. When the visitor arrives at your php page they are immediately forwarded to the sales page address contained with in it, with your affiliate link added. They will probably still realise at this point it is an affiliate link but they will not be able to interfere with it.



I personally use and recommend a completely different approach. I believe in being open and honest. When I have an affiliate link, I disclose it.

[Vanquish]

i tried to cloak via the php way and got this error. Could it be because i have word press installed using fantastico i have no idea what it means.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/vantage/public_html/reco/index.php on line 2

[Zubair Zm]

May be easier for you to just buy a link cloaker script something like this WSO http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...s-seconds.html
rgds
Zm

Originally Posted by Vanquish

How do I cloak my link using PHP. Keep in mind i do not know what PHP means but i have heard it is the safest and most effective way to cloak your link any advice/ tutorials would be apprechiated.

[tomfra]

Originally Posted by Vanquish

i tried to cloak via the php way and got this error. Could it be because i have word press installed using fantastico i have no idea what it means.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/vantage/public_html/reco/index.php on line 2

This simply means that you put the colon sign where it should not be. If you are using the code posted by danielmcclure, it's a semicolon at the end of line 2, not a colon.

Tomas

[Nicholas Ho]

<?php

header('Location:http://www.theaddress-you-want-to-se...tor.too');

?>


It is ' not " .

[tomfra]

Originally Posted by Nicholas Ho

<?php

header('Location:http://www.theaddress-you-want-to-se...tor.too');

?>


It is ' not " .

It can be both apostrophy - ' or standard quote sign - " as long it's not mixed. If you use the apostrophy sign to enclose the string, you cannot use variables in it.

OK:

header('Location: someURL');

OK:

header("Location: someURL");

OK:

$url = 'someURL';
header("Location: $url");

Wrong:

$url = 'someURL';
header('Location: $url');


Tomas

[Vanquish]

Thanks, that worked, how would i apply this to a picture so when a user scrolls over a picture they see the .php instead of the aff link.

[tomfra]

Link to the redirect .php file instead of the aff. link - simply link the image to http://yourdomain.com/myphpredirect.php instead of the original link.

Tomas