Building a Simple Affiliate System in PHP/MySQL

[mandy]

Setting up an affiliate system on your website can be very lucrative. While there are a lot of details involved, it need not be overly complicated. This article walks you through the steps of creating and setting up a basic affiliate system.

    * Intro
    * Building the Database
    * Setting Your Settings
    * Being Common
    * Look And Feel
    * Your Index Page
    * Letting Affiliates Join
    * Letting Affiliates Login
    * Adding Affiliate Code to your Site
    * Managing Affiliates
    * Paying Your Affiliates
    * In Conclusion

Intro

Today, we're going to discuss building a simple Affiliate System. Affiliate Systems are useful for people who want to have affiliates on their sites to help boost sales.

full tutorial: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Buildin...-PHPMySQL/

[bargainbloodhound]

Today, we're going to discuss building a simple Affiliate System...

Affiliates sign up and are given a link that they can use to redirect visitors to your site. The script will track clicks from each affiliate and also record any sales that come out of those clicks.

Simple is right...the script doesn't appear to contain any code to check for affiliate fraud.  : :blinkie:  If you set up an affiliate program without any way to check for fraudulent clicks or sales the odds are your affiliate system will drive you into bankruptvy.

[trigno]

i will try it out.