Trouble setting up php tracking across several pages

dnsg12

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I need help adding php tracking from Adwords to index.php to page 1 to page 2 to page 3.

I want to generate an outbound affiliate link with keyword tracked from Adwords to the affiliate program "subid=". The outbound link is generated in an iframe, which what may be causing my problem.

Here is what is being generated in the page source:

Code:
<iframe src="hxxp://affiliateprogram.com/&subid1=<?php echo $_GET['kw'] ;?>" frameborder="0"></iframe>

For some reason my <?php echo $_GET['kw'] ;?> isn't converting to kw which is my keyword that is being tracked.

Here is the code from the php file that generates the above link:

<iframe src="<? echo "$url"; ?>" frameborder="0"></iframe>

The $url is generated at the top of the page as: $url=$row["url"];

I don't know a lot of php but I've tried session tracking and everything else I can find on the net, but I might not have been doing it right.

Here is what is currently on my landing page (index.php)

session_start();
if(isset($_GET['kw']))
$_SESSION['tracking'] = $_GET['kw'];

I don't know if I've provided enough information, but does anyone know how to solve my problem?

I've also tried adding the kw to the $url=$row["url"], but probably wrong. I tried something like:

$url=$row["url" + "<?php echo $_GET['kw'] ;?>"]

but it generated errors on page load.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
 
Try this,
This Goes on your landing page, where it says keyword at the end put a basic keyword that way if someone comes from a direct link.
Code:
<?php
if (is_null($kw = $_GET['KW'])) $kw='keyword';
 
?>

If you send people straight your your affiliate link use this code

Code:
<a href="http://youraffiliate/abc123?subid=<?php echo $kw ?> 'GOOGLE'

If you use jump pages, use this as link

Code:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/jump.php?kw=<?php echo $kw ?> 'GOOGLE'

and put this on your jump page(s)

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type">
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://http://youraffiliate/abc123?subid=<?php echo $kw ?>">
<title>Your Website Name</title>


make sure you save it as .php and not .html,Let me know if this helps.
 
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by the way if you cant get it workin hit me up in pm for my MSN and I can take a look at the code
 
I got it working, thanks. I ended up using a completely different path. I ended up just GETting and ECHOing on the next page link all the way through the 6 or so pages.

Probably not the best way, but it's working for now.
 
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