Triggering commissions from within your scripts

It's actually fairly simple to trigger commissions from within a script on your site. For example, you could do this from a shopping cart script, an order form, a lead form, or any other type of perl or php script. Basically, the code will remotely call the sale.cgi script and send along the appropriate variables to trigger a commission.

NOTE: When you do this - your script is calling sale.cgi and NOT the visitors browser so the affiliate cookie WON'T be read. You must already have this value captured or present in the script. I will show you how to capture it below, though, if your script is being executed directly by the buyer or visitor's browser.

PERL

Code to remotely trigger a commission:

use LWP::Simple; # this is only necessary if you haven't yet called the LWP modules
$temp = get("http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/sale.cgi?cashflow=AMOUNT&affiliate=AFFILIATE&secret=SECRETWORD&goods=INVOICE");

Same code, but capturing the affiliate cookie beforehand:

use LWP::Simple; # this is only necessary if you haven't yet called the LWP modules
use CGI; $q = new CGI; # only if you haven't called these modules in the script yet
$affiliate = $q->cookie('COOKIENAME'); # name of cookie from affiliate program
$temp = get("http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/sale.cgi?cashflow=AMOUNT&affiliate=$affiliate&secret=SECRETWORD&goods=INVOICE");

PHP

Code to remotely trigger a commission:

$handle = fopen ("http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/sale.cgi?cashflow=AMOUNT&affiliate=AFFILIATE&secret=SECRETWORD&goods=INVOICE", "r");

Same code, but capturing the affiliate cookie beforehand:

if(isset($COOKIENAME)) {
$handle = fopen ("http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/sale.cgi?cashflow=AMOUNT&affiliate=$COOKIENAME&secret=SECRETWORD&goods=INVOICE", "r");
}

All of the capital words in the code above MUST be substituted with the proper variables or values in order to trigger the commission properly. By default, you ONLY need the cashflow variable (the purchase price) to trigger the commission. The rest of the variables are optional.

Because of size limitations some of the lines of code above are split onto multiple lines...make sure to connect them when you're putting the code in the script.