Multi-Purpose Affiliation Links Generator

clarkwinkelmann

Multi-Purpose Affiliation Links Generator for Flarum

This extension allows you to automatically turn links into custom affiliate or redirect links.

You can define a list of rules that once matched will turn the url into another value.
You can then inject the original url as part of that new url.

For example you can create a rule so that every url with domain niceshop.tld gets rewritten as https://referaldomain.tld?redirect={url}.
This will turn links like https://niceshop.tld/amazing-product into https://referaldomain.tld/?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fniceshop.tld%2Famazing-product.

You can create more advanced rules with regular expression matching and capture groups.

Installation

This extension can be installed on Flarum beta 10.x only.

composer require kilowhat/flarum-ext-affiliation-links

This extension replaces flagrow/affiliation-links and will automatically import its data.

A KILOWHAT extension

This extension was written by Clark Winkelmann as part of a client contract and released under the MIT license in the hope that the code will be useful to others.

This extension is published on Packagist and you are welcome to install it on your own forum, however no free support is offered.

Please contact me if you are interested in contracting me to add features or update this extension.

Links

I'm publishing this extension on Discuss so it can be found and referenced more easily, however I'm not taking any feature request. If you'd like to develop an extension with me please see the link above.

FBI

Nice extension..
Is there any sample creating rule with regex or simple match?

clarkwinkelmann

FBI "simple" basically uses * as the equivalent of .* in a regex, and always matches the full string. So a "simple" match for https://example.com/product/* is the same as the regex /^https:\/\/example\.com\/product\/.*$/

The regex allows you to match multiple subdomains, or capture groups for example. A more complex example could be /^https?:\/\/(en|fr|de)\.example.com\/product\/([0-9]+)[#?$]/, where the subdomain will be matched as group {1} and the product id as group {2}. A rewrite with capture groups could look something like this: https://referral.tld/redirect?vendor=example&product_id={2}

Littlegolden

This extension is now Incompatible with beta11-13.

kilowhat/flarum-ext-affiliation-links 0.2.0 requires flarum/core >=0.1.0-beta.10 < 0.1.0-beta.11

clarkwinkelmann

Littlegolden thanks, good catch.

It's an extension originally developed for a client and there has been no further development since beta 10.

I think it should still be compatible, I'll give it a try and update the constraints if so.

For now I'm adding the Incompatible tag here, but only because the constrains don't allow installing.

Mand

Hi @clarkwinkelmann, I just tried installing your extension and got the following warning:

The extension is most likely incompatible with your current Flarum instance.

The extension wasn't installed and doesn't show on my dash.

Is there a replacement for this extension or plans to update it to work with current Flarum version, please?

clarkwinkelmann

No plan at the moment.

The update could be sponsored.