With a php script though what you could do is something like this:

BH.com/BHpage1.php -> BH.com/BHpage2.php -> WH.com/Wpage.php -> Affilate page

So on your ‘BHpage’ what it would do is redirect ALL your traffic to the ‘wpage’ which will drop the cookie and act as your refer.

To explain it another way you send 100 visitors to your BHpage (from ANY source) all of these will be redirected to your genuine landing page (i.e. a page that has that affilate links present) These will then fall target to a script as discussed in the article (i.e. a random cookie dropping script). This will result in the Affilate seeing ‘wpage’ as the referer to all the cookie drops.

What this is effect means is you can redirect different traffic sources to BHpage and by tweaking the % on the ‘landingpage’ drop a fair no of cookies.

SO BHpage1=

< ?php

?>

BHpage2 =

< ?php

}
?>

Whpage = (see pseduo script in post)

This in effect will hide ALL traffic sources and referers and use the ‘whpage’ as a referer etc.

OR an alternative:

With the same model above (except with 1 less page)
i.e. BH.com/BHpage1.php -> WH.com/Wpage.php -> Affilate page

you could use is something like this:

< ?php

?>

?>

What the first script does upon landing on the page it redirects the user to your second ‘legitmate’ page which will then load the affilate page use the ‘legitimate page’ as your refer.

These methods would not as mentioned not work with forum stuffing (as in my knowledge) the refreshes etc will not work though this will work well with CPA offers that limit traffic sources (the second method) or just help you provide more users for your ‘cookie script page’ (the first method).

Also check out For a bit more info on controlling your referer

NB every where you see ‘**’ delete them as they are just there to stop the code being run in the comments

Just need to clarify what you actually put in the php file ?

Also if you are using forums it would be easier to do the following:

Add this to the .htaccess:
Redirect /image1.jpg ww.SomeAffiliateWebsite.com/aff123

and then use the following format on forums:
[img]ww.SomeDomainOfYours.com/image1.jpg[/img]

OR

add this to the .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule image1.jpg ww.SomeAffiliateWebsite.com/aff123/ [R,L]

and use this:

or use the tags as above.

Though if you are adamant on using a php add the following to .htaccess:


ForceType application/x-httpd-php



and add this to image1.jpg


< ?
if(!$_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]){
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
} else {
header("Location: ww.SomeAffiliateWebsite.com/aff123/");
}
?>


Hope it helps….but remember cookie stuffing is bad and this is to help grow your knowledge ONLY! Also don’t forget to ad ‘http’ I didn’t because it was breaking the code tags.

The basic gist though is you would write in the script a portion that tell it read the text file via the ‘file()’ command or fget()

// open the file and save each line as an array entry in $content
$content = file(‘myfile.txt’);

// count how many lines in the file
$numLines = count($content);

// loop through all the lines
for ($i = 0; $i < $numLines; $i++) {
// each line ends with a newline character
// you may want to get rid of this first
// using trim()
$line = trim($content[$i]);

// do whatever you want to do with that line
// ...

}

OR

// open the log file and check if the it's opened successfully
if (!($fp = fopen('myfile.txt', 'r'))) {
die('Cannot open file');
}

// keep fetching a line from the file until end of file
while ($line = fgets($fp, 4096)) {
// trim to remove new line character at the end of line
$line = trim($line);

// do whatever you want to do with that line
// ...
}

You then set the result as a variable (you could use $line) but I would recommend using $refer = $line so it is more readable in the different sections of code.

You then enter this $refer in to your script...actually spoofing the refer is a different matter and so as not to write another post in the comment section I sugges you check out http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/2008/08/27/http-referral-spoofing-with-php-and-curl/