Redirecting Help Pls

OnFire25 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 07:11 AM

For split testing is it possible to create a page that will randomly select one page to display to a visitor.

Nothing blackhat here I know but I have an idea based on c0nversi0nPr0fit that I haven't seen anywhere else.

As c0nversi0nPr0fit only allows tracking of 3 versions of a landing page I am trying to create an index.php that will randomly select from index1.html, index2.html and index3.html.

I have used the following code :

Code:

<?php
 $pageid =  rand(1, 3);
 if ($pageid == 1){$location = "http://www.google.com";}
 else if ($pageid == 2){$location = "http://www.yahoo.com";}
 else if ($pageid == 3){$location = "http://www.msn.com";}
 echo "<a href=$location>$location</a>";
?>

and this echo does display a random pagelink in text but I can not work out how to get it to open the selected/displayed location.

As you can guess I am not a php coder

So happy for any workable suggestions

Thanx

**MiLiTARYiV** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 07:33 AM

There is. I read about how to do that in the Beating Adwords book but can not remember how

**BozoClown** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 07:46 AM

Here you go

Code:

<?php
 $pageid =  rand(1, 3);
 if ($pageid == 1){$location = "http://www.google.com";}
 else if ($pageid == 2){$location = "http://www.yahoo.com";}
 else if ($pageid == 3){$location = "http://www.msn.com";}
 echo "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=$location">";
?>

OnFire25 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 10:06 PM

Hi Bozo,

Thanks for the code - slight problem when I upload this to my host using PHP version 5.2.6 I get the following error

Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/xxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/xxxxxxxxxxx/index.php on line 6

Any thoughts on this ?

Thanx

**BozoClown** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 10:12 PM

Oops I forgot to escape the quotations

Code:

<?php
 $pageid =  rand(1, 3);
 if ($pageid == 1){$location = "http://www.google.com";}
 else if ($pageid == 2){$location = "http://www.yahoo.com";}
 else if ($pageid == 3){$location = "http://www.msn.com";}
 echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=$location\">";
?>

That should work.

OnFire25 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 10:54 PM

Thanx

that works.

Now all I need to get working is some javascript in this to get the split testing results.

the code is
<script language="javascript" src="http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/tracker.php?uid=9&cid=12"></script> which is supposed to track visitors is there any special codes that are needed because I have tried this and the mysql is not being updated so I guess that how I have entered the code is wrong

Truely grateful for the support and help

**BozoClown** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-29-2008, 11:40 PM

Make sure you have set up the database right and are actually updating it with php. mysql usually displays errors when you have a problem. You have to write the code that updates it on every visit or make user the script is doing that for you.

**bhnoobz** · #8 (**permalink**) 09-30-2008, 12:06 AM

lol that's a really messy way to do something simple...
What happens if you want to add more sites? More variables and elsfis?

Code:

<?php
$redirects = array(
        "http://www.site1.com",
        "http://www.site2.com",
        "http://www.site3.com",
        "http://www.site4.com",
        "http://www.site5.com"
);

header("Location: " . $redirects[mt_rand()%count($redirects)] ."");
?>

OnFire25 · #9 (**permalink**) 09-30-2008, 10:01 AM

Hi bhnoobz

Purrrrrrrrfect thanx for K I S S ing it for a non coder.

Have you any suggestions about getting the javascript into the php code have been tryng but it is not updating the mhsql database so I have f***ked it up somewhere.

What I am doing is taking a ppc tool and attempting to reuse it as a split testing tool - I do like to look outside the box.

Appreciate your time and suggestions