I’ve never tried integrating analytics to it, or even if it would be able to track the page, you may be best just looking at your stats program provided by your host to see how many times the file has been accessed.

But if you do want to try analytics, try putting the code under the closing PHP tag. ( ?> )

I would like to add the Google analytics script to these php redirects so that I know how many people I am sending to the affiliate links. However, this is a php page and I don´t know if I just have to put the script below the php code, or in the middle or not at all…

Thank you and again, great post.

You can see how the quotes should be in the image of my code in notepad in the body of this article.

Perhaps Dan could put up an image to demonstrate what i was talking about ?

Hi Dan

As usual Dan, a good post and very useful info, and the redirect works perfectly.

BUT…………………

I did have some major problems with your PHP code……… It simply did not work at first !

Now I’m no expert, far from it, and I know you are good with this sort of stuff Dan, so I presumed I must have been doing something wrong.

This is what was returned – Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’
this meant nothing to me

copied and pasted the PHP code as above again, and still not working ?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’

Went over to Paula Brett’s blog, and copied her code ( I remember she had a redirect PHP code there recently)
Nope this was not working also, same error as before …….. Surely there must be something wrong with the code !

NOW BY THIS TIME – I Was Getting Pi**ed off

Done a search on google……. Found another one and it worked, but on close inspection it was basically the same as Dan’s……… Now I was getting really confused.
So I put them all together in Notepad and looked closely, and finally I could see something was different and easily overlooked. Made the changes and it worked for both yours and Paula’s code.

Now i hope this is going to display correctly, and it would be easier showing an image, here goes. look very closely they are different

Both Dan’s and Paula have

DOUBLE QUOTATION MARKS like this ” “
I Change them to
DOUBLE QUOTATION MARKS like this ” ”

and they all now worked, So for anyone else who copied and paste the PHP code above and it did not work, now you know why !

For any one who’s interested, here are the 3 redirect PHP Codes that work – Just replace the -
http://www.xsitepro.com/cmd.php?af=470586
with the affiliate link you want to use

(1) Dan’s version

(2) Paula’s version

(3) from the http://www.toatallyphp.co.uk website

<?php

$URL=”http://www.xsitepro.com/cmd.php?af=470586″;

header (“Location: $URL”);

Please don’t think this is a critisism in any way, I just hope it helps anyone else, who may have been pulling their hair out wondering why it did not work for them also.

Just change the Double Quotation Marks from ” “ to ” ”

Phew, that was hard work, especially as i have already purchased some software that does all this for me automatically, cannot resist a challenge I guess ?