Cookie Question

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I actually thought about this as I was planning the version 2 of porngreen. I came up with the following, but it's probably not for programs who wish to use refer.ccbill.com links or have 0 knowledge on coding and whatnot..

I have something like
http://www.mypaysites.com/tour1/inde...ur_ccbill_code

Then on the tour, I carry that code in the links until the joinpage where I send the ccbill_referer (ref in the url) to the ccbill's page. Now, the obvious problem with this is that no cookie is set, so webmasters would be screwed over for returning customers. However, I also have an iframe on the indexpage of the tour that is linked to a blank page through refer.ccbill.com with the affiliates link. So that sets the cookie.

On the joinpage I have php code that checks for the presence of 'ref' value in the url, so if there's nobody who sent the visitor it uses the cookie.

What this does, and yes I've tested it, is that affiliates can continue to check their clicks through affiliateadmin as well as my own stats, they get credit for returning customers and the person who sent the last visitor gets credit for the sale.

Not sure I made any sense, but this is the way to do it so the last referer gets credit IF there is a referer, otherwise the webmaster whose link set the cookie gets credit. It's a bit 'hard' way of doing it, but it was pretty much the only way I could figure out how to do that. As far as I know my plan is rather foolproof. Prove me wrong and I'll fix it.