people linking into shop from other sites

[Laylah]

Search for this discussion "External Link to specific product"

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Our Advanced User Guide gives instructions on what you need to do in the 'Taking People Straight to a Product' which can be downloaded from here. Basically you need to have the link in the following format:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?...2345&NOLOGIN=1

Where:
· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN
· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number
· 12345 is the product reference of your desired product.
· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential thing to add to the end of the URL to order to bypass the login page

If you are linking from another website then you also need to add:

&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://your.URL/acatalog/

to the end of the link and specify (changing your.URL for your actual web address). So the full link will look like:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?....URL/acatalog/

[web@ack]

will doing this though track where the visitor has come from when they have placed an order?

[pinbrook]

Hi Web@ack

to get the tracking you have to use the referrer script.

Laylah's solution will plant people at the correct place in catalog but does not track

[Andy Warner]

why cant you jump to the anchor?

It seems that the Referrer script rs00000x.pl doesnt send you to the page you specify, it reads that page in, parses it then outputs the page again..... take a look at the address bar to see the dynamically created page name...

so, when your destination is jumpers.html rs0000x.pl opens that file and reads it, then parses, then outputs to screen.

add an anchor, say jumpers.html#126 and actinic rs0000x.pl looks for a file names jumpers.html#126 which doesnt exist, thus we get the error.

the referrer script calls a read-and-parse function from er, actinic.pm (i think) thus its not a simple matter of changing a few things in referrer.pl.

anyone changed this sucessfully???? would love to get a version that is a biut more flexible.

andy