PHP - Referral Link

Hello friends!
I just need the last help to have everything working ok.

I'm having an issue because the input won't show the referral ID.

Here is the .htaccess code:
/*This changes the URL mysite.com/reg.php/referral.html to mysite.com/reg.php?referral*/
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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^reg.php/(.*)\.html$ http://www.mysite/reg.php?$1

Then the code in the reg.php page:
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if($_COOKIE['referido'])
{
$ref = $_COOKIE['referido'];
} else {
$ref = $do->get_r_file_url();
$ref = str_replace(array(".html", "/"), "", $ref);
if(eregi('.php', $ref)) { $ref=false; }
setcookie("referido", $ref, time()+60*60*24*30);
}



And then the input:
<input size='3' style='width:170px;' id='referral' type='hidden' name='6' value='{$ref}' >


So how do I do to make the input show the referral ID?


Thanks!

In the database, I have a table called 'users' inside that I have email, nick (aka username), and balance.  The individual aspects are set up, and work.  My site is also successfully connecting to and reading / writing info in the database.  So my question is:  How would I go about having a box on the register page called 'refer' where the person would enter their referrers email (or nickname, one or the other) then it finds that person, and puts a value of 10 in 'balance'.  Anyone with more experience than me have any ideas?  All help is greatly appreciated.

Good evening guys and gals,

for some reason I cant get my head around something quite simple, basically I am trying to work out a way of simply recording referrals to my site when the potential user registers.

This worded example is basically what I want:

registered user a with a username of smithy invites his friend western to become a member of a site he has joined:

I guess here I would basically use something like mysite.com?refid=smithy as the link he gives he's friend

Now this is where my brain refuses to work, what if western decides to have a look around the site before he decides to register and clicks on a few internal pages? Obviously the referral id will no longer be in the address bar.

So my 1st question is, how can I check to see if a referral is used when accessing the site? I could then store the username in a session or cookie.

If I had something like this:

<?php

$refid = $_GET('refid')

setcookie("user", $refid, time()+3600);
?> 

But how would I check that a refid exists in the url so it doesnt throw up a parse error?

I have more questions but 1 thing at a time!

Many Thanks

Hi,

I have a fully pledged membership system and want to integrate my own user referral system but want some tips, advice really on the logic of it. Basically already registered users on my site will have the option to refer people, only registered users. I will try to explain my logic and what i have done so far.

My current registered users table is something like

Quote

    users (table)
    - id (user id)
    - email (user email)
    - password (hash of users password)
    - reg_date (date user registered)


I have some other fields but not relevant to what I want to do and to keep things as simple as possible I left them out.

I am thinking of creating a new table called referrals and for example when a registered user on my site from the users table goes to a member only page called referral.php it will display a form so they can enter an email address of someone they want to refer and it also displays the people they referred.

My referral table is like this so far and not sure if it's best way to go about the database logics and php logic.

my table so far looks like this:

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    referrals (table)
    - id (auto incremented every time a new referral (row) is added to referrals table)
    - referrer_uid (id of referrer, this would be the unique id of a registered user from the users table)
    - referred_email (email address of person who has been referred)
    - status (when someone is first referred default will be `referred`, if they signup to site via referral link this will update to `completed`)
    - created_on (date the referral was made, unix timestamp)
    - updated_on (date the referred person actually clicks the referral link and completes signup)


Currently i added the database table above to my site on local. added some sample data for testing and created a referral.php page where there's a form so a registered member can enter a persons email and refer them to my site to signup. On referral.php there is also  the total people they referred and a table showing all the people they referred as follows:

Referred Email | Referred Date | Status | Completed On

Now so far everything is seems fine. I have my sample (pretend referrals i made) data showing in my test account. The part i am now not sure about is this:

Obviously to stop abuse i do my usual validation checks like: check to ensure the email being entered on referrals page does not exist in users table (registered member), check to ensure the email has not already been referred previously (for spam reasons) only allowed to refer an email address once and not allowed to refer someone who has previously been referred by someone else to (again for spam reasons)

Now onto the tracking the referral and link building.

I was first thinking this:

on sign up form have a hidden field. The sign up form would do a simple check to see if isset $_GET['ref'] like signup.php?ref=something_here

if it is prefill the hidden field, when user then signs up if the ref=something_here matches what's in the database then update referral to complete so the referrer knows that their friend for example signed up via their referral, unix timestamp of when referred person completed signup.

Now i was going to use the email address of referred person or username of person who made the referral signup.php?ref=username or signup.php?ref=referred_email . Now what i am thinking is what would be better and i guess stop random abuse is create another column and call it referred_id; this would be a random md5 hash that is unique to that referral and it will be appended to the url like signup.php?ref=md5_hash_here.



So my questions a

1) Is there anything you think i should change, improve on, alter etc ?

2) Do you think i am going about it the rite way or making a mess of it ?

3) Have i left anything out that i may have not thought of that could cause the system to be abused ?

Any suggestions, feedback, help on the whole logic would be great.

I coded allot of it last night and won't take me long to do the rest but need some help in terms of ensuring i am doing it the best way possible etc, the logic behind it all.

Thanks for any suggestions, help, advice, tips!

PHPFAN

db table    username------>id->username->cash->points->referrer db table    referral_levels------>id->level->earnings->signupBonusCash->signupBonusPoints->status

username    referrer
--------    --------
admin
kelly88     admin   // UPDATE USERNAME ADMIN WITH referral level 1 POINTS/CASH //
jacob       kelly88 // UPDATE USERNAME ADMIN WITH referral level 2 POINTS/CASH AND USERNAME kelly88 WITH referral level 1 POINTS/CASH //
david16     jacob   // UPDATE USERNAME ADMIN WITH referral level 3 POINTS/CASH AND USERNAME kelly88 WITH referral level 2 POINTS/CASH AND USERNAME jacob WITH referral level 1 POINTS/CASH //

Is this possible. If yes - HOW?   Current test registration code with referral level 1

<?php
if(!empty($_GET['ref'])){
	
	$referrerUsername = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'ref', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
	
	if(usernameExist($referrerUsername, $db) === TRUE){
		$_SESSION['ref'] = $referrerUsername;
	}
	
}

// define variables with the value for each field
// the value from POST,GET if this exist, or an empty value
$errors = array();
$username = isset($_POST['username']) ? filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'username', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING) : '';
$referrer = !empty($_SESSION['ref']) ? $_SESSION['ref'] : (isset($_POST['referrer']) ? filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'referrer', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING) : '');

if(!empty($_POST['submit'])){
	
	if(empty($username)){
       	 $errors[] = $lang['error']['a_019'];
    }
	else if(validUsernameLenght($username) === FALSE){
        $errors[] = $lang['error']['a_020'];
   	}
	else if(validUsernameChars($username) === FALSE){
        $errors[] = $lang['error']['a_021'];
    }
	else if(usernameExist($username, $db) === TRUE){
       	$errors[] = $lang['error']['a_022'];
    }
	
	if(!empty($referrer)){
		
		if(usernameExist($referrer, $db) === FALSE){
			$errors[] = $lang['error']['a_037'];
		}
		else if($username == $referrer){
			$errors[] = $lang['error']['a_038'];
		}
			
	}
	
}

if(!empty($_POST['submit']) and empty($errors)){
	/*
	$queryOne = 'INSERT INTO users(username, referrer) VALUES (:username, :referrer)';
	$insertOne = $db->prepare($queryOne);
	$insertOne->bindParam(':username', $username, PDO::PARAM_STR);
	$insertOne->bindParam(':referrer', $referrer, PDO::PARAM_STR);
	$successOne = $insertOne->execute();
	*/
	if($referrer){
		
		$query = 'SELECT signupBonusCash AS sbc, signupBonusPoints AS sbp FROM referral_levels WHERE level = 1 AND status = "enabled"';
		$select = $db->query($query);
		$row = $select->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
		
		$queryTwo = 'UPDATE users SET points = points + :points, cash = cash + :cash WHERE username = :referrer';
   	 	$selectTwo = $db->prepare($queryTwo);
		$selectTwo->bindParam(':cash', $row['sbc'], PDO::PARAM_STR);
		$selectTwo->bindParam(':points', $row['sbp'], PDO::PARAM_STR);
		$selectTwo->bindParam(':referrer', $referrer, PDO::PARAM_STR);
		$selectTwo->execute();
		
	}
	
}

if(!empty($errors)){ 
	foreach($errors as $error){
		print $error.'<br>'; 
	}
}	

print '
<form method="POST">
<table style="width:100%">
	<tr>
    	<td style="width:30%;font-weight:bold">Username</td>
    	<td style="width:70%"><input type="text" name="username" maxlength="255" style="width:200px" value="'.cleanOutput($username).'"></td>
	</tr>';
	
	if(!empty($_SESSION['ref'])){
		
		print '
	<tr>
    	<td style="font-weight:bold">'.$lang['global']['a_047'].'</td>
    	<td><input type="text" name="referrer" readonly="readonly" maxlength="255" style="width:200px" value="'.cleanOutput($referrer).'"></td>
  	</tr>';
	
	}else{
		
		print '
	<tr>
    	<td style="font-weight:bold">'.$lang['global']['a_047'].'</td>
    	<td><input type="text" name="referrer" maxlength="255" style="width:200px" value="'.cleanOutput($referrer).'"></td>
  	</tr>';
	
	}
	
	print '
	<tr>
    	<td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></td>
  	</tr>
</table>
</form>'; 

?>