Bug in Affliate System?

**daisylei12** · 07-12-2007, 02:46 PM

I know this sounds minor, but I remember my own beginning web design days and trying to include an affiliate banner into my own site back then... so I would like to save my potential affiliates (and myself when they email asking for help) the headache i forsee coming from this issue... sorry if this question has already been posted and answered, but i couldn't find it if it has been...
that said, here is the issue:

The affiliate program seems to functional correctly in as much as creating custom banners, adding general banners, clickthroughs and purchase records, but I have discovered a minor flaw in the way it displays the banner linking code for the affiliates.

It shows the banner on the page, and below that is a text area which should contain linking code formatted something like this:

Code:

<a href="affiliate link.url"><img src="banner link.gif"></a>

instead the textarea contains this:

Code:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://efta.us/store/index.php?ref=1&amp;affiliate_banner_id=2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://efta.us/store/affiliate_show_banner.php?ref=1&amp;affiliate_banner_id=2&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;EFTA125-1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Which if you if you place that code into a webpage prints the code on the page and does not display the banner, which could confuse new website owners and result in lower affiliate promotion because for every 1 that asks a question 5 will just drop out of the program (or never put it on their site which would be the same result for me).

I looked in includes/languages/ in the affiliates php files for where it formatted this text area and could not find it, nor was it in catalog/affiliate_banners.php

any ideas?

**daisylei12** · 07-12-2007, 04:57 PM

sorry for the typos and repeats, i was trying to be professional in my post but i had been working 12 hours without a break and i think something did break (my brain... lol)

hope you can read the problem through the mess i posted, i am normally an eloquent and efficient communicator

**aaanativearts** · 08-20-2007, 01:12 PM

I need the answer to how to fix this, too. I have 57 affiliates but only one has put up links, and I believe this is why.

**michael_s** · 08-20-2007, 01:30 PM

Read the forum stickies... they are sticky for a reason...
affiliate link encoded

**daisylei** · 03-12-2008, 10:51 AM

ty for the link to the sticky, if i had found it when i searched i would not have asked... but since this seems to be a template bug?? why not just eliminate those 2 lines?

anyhow, mine is fixed now ty

now i also know that most of the main template files are in the fallback directory, so i am better equipped to make changes to my site, that was needed info as well. as mine was installed by my webhost i had no readme or anything else to go on for changing things ...