eCommerce Tycoon

**WebTraffic** · 12-09-2009, 11:45 AM

I know it kinda sounds weird by the title, but let me explain. This is what I am wanting to do...

Rather than stocking products or finding a dropshipper, I want to make money just by selling products for other people through commission. I have joined up with commission junction (considering share a sale). If I find a company on there that has products to sell, I want to put those same products on my ecommerce website. Instead of the visitor buying the product from me - or through my shopping cart - is there a way to redirect the visitor to their website whenever they click "Add to cart" or "Buy".

This could be either redirect to their actual product page or redirect the visitor to the affiliates website with the product already in the cart - doesn't matter to me.

Is there any way of accomplishing this?

**chrishirst** · 12-09-2009, 11:47 AM

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-fo...-redirect.html

**WebTraffic** · 12:04 PM

Thanks for the link. I checked this out, but don't understand how this is actually going to give me credit for the sale.

CJ uses an affiliate link like such.

Code:

DO NOT CLICK, THIS IS FOR DEMONSTRATION ONLY

http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-3589809-10408495

How does this script actually redirect it to a link such as that?

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$destname = strtolower($_GET["name"]);

$Dests = array(
    "crams"=>"http://www.cram-system.com",
    "amazon"=>"http://www.amazon.co.uk",
    "ebay"=>"http://www.ebay.co.uk",
    "clickbank"=>"http://57erd.reseller.hop.clickbank.net",
    "auctads"=>"http://www.auctionads.com/",
    "cj"=>"http://www.cj.com/",
    "yahoo"=>"http://www.yahoo.com/",
    "goog"=>"http://www.google.com/",
    "msn"=>"http://www.msn.com/"
    );

// Code can be inserted in here to log the clickthrough into a database ;

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
// comment out the line above to send the default 302 redirect;
header("Location: " . $Dests[$destname]);
exit();

?>

I see that this is using a get method. Wouldnt this actually redirect it to http://www.cj.com/? I'm guessing this means that I would have to change that link to my actual affiliate link for a particular product, but then it is just going to be pretty much static and I would be better off just using static html to put in every affiliate link. - although this would get pretty hard if I had something like 5000 products.

**chrishirst** · 12-09-2009, 12:02 PM

You just put the destination URI in the array.

**WebTraffic** · 12:37 PM

I understand (somewhat)

If I had the uri as a static link, it would redirect to the same product every time whenever the script was ran.

I would need to do something like this then..

On my "Buy Now/whatever" button, have it instead of adding to cart to run this script. This script would then be something like this...

PHP Code:


			
 <?php
$destname = strtolower($_GET["name"]);
$productid = $_GET['osCsid'];

$get_product = "SELECT affiliatelink FROM products WHERE productid='$_GET[osCsid]'";
    
$product = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($get_product));

$Dest = array(

    "cj"=>"$product['affiliatelink']",

    );

// Code can be inserted in here to log the clickthrough into a database ;

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
// comment out the line above to send the default 302 redirect;
header("Location: " . $Dest[$destname]);
exit();

?>

Then put all of the affiliate links in my database to pull whenever a product is selected?

My buy now button would then redirect to something like... http://domainname.com/buyproduct.php...0b69fb05b27b2a

**k998** · 12-20-2009, 06:55 PM

Are you using Zen Cart for your shopping cart? If so, this post here runs through how they modified Zen Cart to work for affiliate sales.

http://www.internetmarketingkultch.c...-products.html

PS I have no connection to this blog and have not tested this myself.