Help with Banners for Affiliates & CPM

[subtleinstrument]

On the affiliate banner manager page, what do the numbers in the "Statistics" column mean? e.g. "27/1"

Is it possible to use OSCMax banners for CPM affiliate work? I.e. knowing how many times our banner has been displayed, and where?

Thanks in advance.

[subtleinstrument]

I'm also struggling with the "Build-A-Link" banner function.

I understand how to set up banners on the Admin side.

However, if I log in as an affiliate and click the "Banners" button, I get a page with a selection of the banners. The problem is that when I enter a product ID number in the Build-A-Link box and click "Build Link", the space below is blank. This happens even if I enter a product ID which already has a banner linked to it.

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

[michael_s]

Check the bug tracker for your build-a-link issues:
101: Not showing banner links when logged as affilate! - Bug Tracker - open source Commerce Maximized :: osCMax

And this:
affiliate link encoded

[subtleinstrument]

I'm slowly making progress on this affiliate thing.

One thing that tripped me up was that OSCMax needed products_id as an identifier for banners, not products_model (we use MySQL for database). However, now we have to make it so that OSCMax can display products_id so that affiliates can identify which product code to enter. Any idea how to do that? products_id doesn't seem to show up anywhere in OSCMax

Another problem is that the banner code snippets are missing the slash between the domain name and the rest of the URL. You have to manually edit the code to get it to work.

Thirdly, the navigation links on the affiliate pages don't work properly. If you click "Affiliate Program" in the navigation bar, it reloads the page instead of taking you back to the affiliate summary page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[michael_s]

products_id doesn't seem to show up anywhere in OSCMax

It is in every url for each product when you visit a product page. For instance : product_info.php?products_id=1

Another problem is that the banner code snippets are missing the slash between the domain name and the rest of the URL. You have to manually edit the code to get it to work.

This means your configure.php file is not correct and you need to fix it (admin/includes/configure.php and includes/configure.php - you are missing a / somewhere)

Thirdly, the navigation links on the affiliate pages don't work properly. If you click "Affiliate Program" in the navigation bar, it reloads the page instead of taking you back to the affiliate summary page.

Looks like an issue with one of the variables in the navbar for the affiliate program. I have confirmed this in a default install.

[subtleinstrument]

Originally Posted by michael_s

This means your configure.php file is not correct and you need to fix it (admin/includes/configure.php and includes/configure.php - you are missing a / somewhere)



Looks like an issue with one of the variables in the navbar for the affiliate program. I have confirmed this in a default install.

Both very helpful. Thank you.

Originally Posted by michael_s

It is in every url for each product when you visit a product page. For instance : product_info.php?products_id=1

It's clumsy to tell the affiliates to look at the URL, and we're operating with SEO-friendly URLs anyway, so no ID numbers. I'd like to display the products_id on each product page, ideally so only users who are logged in as an affiliate would see it.

[michael_s]

You should be able to grab the product ID from the DB and just output it to the page if the affiliate login status is true. Take a look at the product query, I think it already has the product ID, and see if you can just add the output to the page.

[aaanativearts]

The product id doesn't show in the URL if you are using a SEO contrib that changes the url to the product title. For those of us that don't understand php well, can someone give an example of exactly what needs to be added where to automatically display the product id on the page?