The Gazette ... Issue: 207 (11-17-2003)

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• Title to appear in the search results
• Description to appear in the search results
• 5 Key phrases to be taken into consideration.
• The URL to be displayed in the search results.
• A tracking URL (if required) through which the surfer will be redirected.
• The actual destination URL or page created by completing the search parameters
• 200 words of text to cover the content of the destination page.

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1. How many people are coming to my Web site from these campaigns
2. How many of them bought my product/service

    <?php

        $campaign_id = $_GET['c'];
        $prevcookie = $_COOKIE['logged'];

        // If this is the first time this person has come here
        // from this campaign, log it as a new hit 

        if ( $campaign_id && ! $prevcookie ) { 

            // Set a cookie called "logged" so we know to skip it, and tag
            // that with the campaign ID, so that we know who to attribute the sales to.
            setcookie( 'logged', $campaign_id, time()+(86400*365) ); /* expire in 1 year */

            // Generate the filename
            $filename = "./" . $campaign_id . ".hits";

            // Get the number of hits to this campaign so far
            if ( ! file_exists($filename) ) { $num_hits = 0; }        
            else { $num_hits = implode("", file($filename)); }

            // Add One
            $num_hits++;

            // Open the file, rewrite the count and save it
            $tmpfile = fopen($filename,"w");
            fwrite($tmpfile,$num_hits);
            fclose($tmpfile);

        }

    ?>

    <?php

        $campaign_id = $_COOKIE['logged'];

        // If this person came in originally from a campaign, log the sale

        if ( $campaign_id ) { 

            // Generate the filename
            $filename = "./" . $campaign_id . ".sales";

            // Get the number of hits to this campaign so far
            if ( ! file_exists($filename) ) { $num_hits = 0; }        
            else { $num_hits = implode("", file($filename)); }

            // Add One
            $num_hits++;

            // Open the file, rewrite the count and save it
            $tmpfile = fopen($filename,"w");
            fwrite($tmpfile,$num_hits);
            fclose($tmpfile);

        }

    ?>

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