sales tracking

HI there,

I am trying to develop a system to track sales. When a user is
redirected to my site from a partners' website (via a unique URL), I
would like to attach a cookie which lets me know that this user came
from site X.

When the user fills out a customer information form, I would like the
information on which site the user came from to be included in the
form. This way if we make a sale we can reward the affiliated website.

Can anyone assist me in drawing a plan of action/strategy for
achieving this or letting me know if there are codes out there which
have been writen with what i am trying to do in mind. I have limited
knowledge in PHP (i am studying for ZEN) and MYSQL.

Thanks

Duncs

You could use a nifty service like shareasale.com or an affiliate
script like http://jam.jrox.com/.

You can also do this directly by checking the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']
value and setting an appropriate value in the $_SESSION to tie that
user to that referrer. When you process the form, look at the value of
$_SESSION['theReferrer'] and store it with the order.

On Jun 16, 12:46 pm, Megamoto <duncanell...@breathe.com> wrote:
> HI there,
>
> I am trying to develop a system to track sales. When a user is
> redirected to my site from a partners' website (via a unique URL), I
> would like to attach a cookie which lets me know that this user came
> from site X.
>
> When the user fills out a customer information form, I would like the
> information on which site the user came from to be included in the
> form. This way if we make a sale we can reward the affiliated website.
>
> Can anyone assist me in drawing a plan of action/strategy for
> achieving this or letting me know if there are codes out there which
> have been writen with what i am trying to do in mind. I have limited
> knowledge in PHP (i am studying for ZEN) and MYSQL.
>
> Thanks
>
> Duncs