Tracking referral hits

[romow]

Hi,
I'm trying to set up some sort of referral link on my site.

For example, each user is given his own referal code that looks like:
http://www.site.com/index.php?my_referral_code

That will take clickers to http://www.site.com,
and I can track where the clickers come from
by looking at my _referal_code..

Do you know of any script (not awstats) that does this and
tracks referral hits?
Thanks.

 

[dabb]

I just wrote a little snippet to do this a few days ago... the "3600 * 4" part adjusts times to be displayed in my time zone, so tweak that as you like.

Stick this in a PHP file and point to it instead of your referal link, it will log their IP & hostname, time and date, and then redirect them to your referral link.

<?php

// get address
$ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');

$Track = sprintf("%s: %s - %s\n",strftime("%m/%d/%y %H:%M",time() + 3600 * 4),$ip,
gethostbyaddr($ip));

$fp = fopen("refer.log","a");
fwrite($fp,$Track);
fclose($fp);

$URL = "http://www.referalsite.com/id=123";

header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: ' . $URL);
?>