[ic] Affiliate bugfix?

Kevin Old interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Apr 15 11:31:00 2003


I was implementing the Affiliate part of IC on my site and I might have
run into a bug.  I went to setup an affiliate and the affiliate id that
was generated by IC was 00010.  I tried accessing pages via
http://myurl/cgi-bin/mycat?mv_pc=00010 and it never tracked any visits
or orders.

I searched the list and found a posting that shed some light -
http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-August/024621.html

<snip>

mv_pc=nnn (numeric)
         A meaningless unqiue number which will increment in you simply 
reload the page.
         This is to prevent browser caching

mv_pc=wwww+ (an alpha string of variable length)
         This will be interpreted as an affiliate code.

</snip>

I changed my affiliate id to kevinold and everything works like a charm.

Is someone working on the affiliate id generator so that it complies
with the standards set?  Seems that the affiliate table has the id field
set at varchar, so someone must have worked on it at one time.

Kevin
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Kevin Old <kold@carolina.rr.com>