Hi guys,

Im pretty new to all this PHP, PERL, ASP ect. I have only just got used to HTML with the help of dreamweaver though.

I have set up a website here and would like to place an advertising space on it. The website is written in HTML throughout. I have registered with a link broker "backlinks.com" and they require me to paste dynamic scrips into my page so that the process of displaying the links is automated.

The bit I dont understand is how I get the code to work in my webpage. I do have a choice on what code to use though, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET and perl. I know that I am able to use perl as it tells me in cpanel the path to perl, as for the others I'm sure I cant use because im only a bronze member for my hosting.

Ok guys... this pretty much is all I can ask questions on because my knowledge is so limited, but here is the code that backlinks.com want me to get to work on my site (without "s)

"# ************************************************** ******************
# Paste this block of code on your web page where you would like text
# links to be displayed. This code will dynamically add and remove text
# links on your web page according to your BackLinks.com settings.
# ************************************************** ******************
# The following variable defines whether links are opened in a new window
# (1 = Yes, 0 = No)
my $OpenInNewWindow = "1";
# ************************************************** ******************
# Please DO NOT modify anything below
# ************************************************** ******************
my $BLKey = "B563-039H-2YF6";
use LWP::Simple;
use URI::Escape;
my $QueryString;
$QueryString = "LinkUrl=".uri_escape((($ENV{'HTTPS'} eq 'on')?'https://':'http://').$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}.$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'});
$QueryString .= "&Key=" .uri_escape($BLKey);
$QueryString .= "&OpenInNewWindow=" .uri_escape($OpenInNewWindow);
#Make request
my $backlinks_content = get("<A href="http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString">http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString);
if($backlinks_content) {
print $backlinks_content;
}"

Hope you can help guys, and thanks

just looked up my hosting plan and I do have php 4.3.8 so maybe I can use PHP?

This is the php code (without "s):

"<?php
// ************************************************** ******************
// Paste this block of code on your web page where you would like text
// links to be displayed. This code will dynamically add and remove text
// links on your web page according to your BackLinks.com settings.
// ************************************************** ******************
// The following variable defines whether links are opened in a new window
// (1 = Yes, 0 = No)
$OpenInNewWindow = "1";
// ************************************************** ******************
// Please DO NOT modify anything below
// ************************************************** ******************
$BLKey = "B563-039H-2YF6";
$QueryString = "LinkUrl=".urlencode((($_SERVER['HTTPS']=='on')?'https://':'http://').$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$QueryString .= "&Key=" .urlencode($BLKey);
$QueryString .= "&OpenInNewWindow=" .urlencode($OpenInNewWindow);

if(intval(get_cfg_var('allow_url_fopen')) && function_exists('readfile')) {
@readfile("<A href="http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString">http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString);
}
elseif(intval(get_cfg_var('allow_url_fopen')) && function_exists('file')) {
if($content = @file("<A href="http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString">http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString))
print @join('', $content);
}
elseif(function_exists('curl_init')) {
$ch = curl_init ("<A href="http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString">http://www.backlinks.com/engine.php?".$QueryString);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec ($ch);
if(curl_error($ch))
print "Error processing request";
curl_close ($ch);
}
else {
print "It appears that your web host has disabled all functions for handling remote pages and as a result the BackLinks software will not function on your web page. Please contact your web host for more information.";
}
?>"