Sonic Affiliate (Ver. 1.0.3) Sonic Affiliate is a open source, web based, affiliate marketing program that we developed. It is loosely based on PHP Affiliate 1.2 and POST Affiliate 1.3, but it is much more powerful. Improvements include:
Increased security.
Increased affiliate reporting
Better administrative reporting
Better communication tools
Multiple affiliate offers
License: GNU System Requirements: PHP 4.0 or higher, a MySQL database, FTP access, and PHPmyAdmin or another method to run SQL on your database server. Installation: Installation instructions are included in our download at /your_folder/readme.txt If you need us to install the program, we can do that for you for $50.00 USD. Basically you will create a new folder on your server, unzip the files and program structure, edit a configuration page, create a database, run some SQL, and upload files. If you can accomplish these steps, you probably won't need our help. Modifications: You may modify the code for Sonic Affiliate at your discretion. If you need us to build you a custom modificatoin or module, we would be happy to do that for you. Just email us the specific requirements and we will give you a fair bid for the work. Look and Feel: You can easily change the look and feel of your affiliate program by editing the header.php, footer.php and style.css pages. If you would like us to integrate Sonic Affiliate into your site's look and feel, we can do that for you. Typically we charge $50.00 USD per page we edit. It could be a little higher or lower depending on the complexity of your site. Language: Only english is supported at this time. If you would like to interpret another language for us, please let us know. The new language file would be available when we release Ver 1.1 later this year. Support: Support is via the Sonic Affiliate Support Forum and is at the discretion of SonicFog. Premium support is available at the rate of $50.00 USD per hour. Download: Use this link to download Sonic Affiliate: DownLoad Sonic Affiliate README.TXT / INSTALL / LICENSE / CHANGELOG / ETC
Sonic Affiliate version 1.0.3 Copyright (C) 2006, SeniorGlobe Media Inc. Please read the GNU license included in this folder. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - PHP 4 or higher it may not work with PHP 5 - it hasn't been tested - MySQL - Register Globals ON - There is a workaround for Register Globals Off in our forum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We can install this on your server for $50.00 USD or $10.00 USD if your web hosting is with SonicFog.com. Self-installation by you is free.
1. UNZIP the Sonic_Affiliate.zip file. You will need all of the files and folders located under the "your_folder" directory. Ignore the "Mac OS X" directory. 2. Create a MySQL database for Sonic Affiliate a. Make a note of the host (usually localhost), database name, username and password. b. Do not create any tables at this time. c. Open the database.sql file d. If you have PHPmyAdmin - open the SQL window in your database and paste the contents of the database.sql file. Run the sql. e. You can also run the sql from the command line if you need to and know how. f. Your Admin username will be "admin" and your admin password will be "admin" You can change this after your login the first time. 3. Create a folder (directory) on your server where you will upload the program files. Something like sonic_affiliate or affiliate. 4. Open sa_config.php in a text or html editor a. Edit all of the editable configuration settings in this file. Examples and instructions are included in the file itself. Do not edit the FUNCTIONS at the bottom of the file unless you are certain you know what you are doing. b. Save the file.
5. Open your landing page where you want affiliates to send the customers to, maybe your home page or an order form page. a. Enter the following code above the <html> tag and any other code: include_once "your_folder/affiliate.php"; (where your_folder is the folder you installed sonic_affiliate b. Save the changes and exit the file 6. Open your sale confirmation page and add the following line of code. This code should be placed in a portion of the page that is only executed when a sale is completed. include_once "your_folder/sale.php"; (where your_folder is the folder you installed sonic_affiliate. b. Save the cahgnes and exit the file.
7. Upload the program files in their current directory structure into your new folder that you created in Step 2.
8. You may change the look and feel of the program by editing the header.php and footer.php pages of the user and user/admin directories. You may also edit the style.css file. 9. You may administrate your affiliate program at: http://www.yourdomain.com/your_folder/user/admin/index.php
10. Login and change your admin password.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Instructions for your Affiliates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Affiliates may register for your affiliate program at: http://www.yourdomain.com/your_new_folder/user/signup.php
They may view their stats at: http://www.yourdomain.com/your_new_folder/user/index.php
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ADDITIONAL MODULES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are interested in using Sonic Affiliate and feel like you would like any additional modules, please contact us at
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and we can price it out for you. Are rates are very reasonable and we complete our work on or ahead of schedule. If we over bid the project, we will bill you only for the hours worked.
There are many good ideas for modules that could be implemented into Sonic Affiliate. These include additional communications features, additional admin reporting, additional reports for affiliates, integrated payments from the program to the affiliate, improved error messaging, additional language support, and so on.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GNU License ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About Sonic Affiliate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Essentially this is an improvement (re-write) of the old PHP Affiliate V1.2 and POST Affiliate 1.3 What's better? - More security features - More communication features - More Affiliate Program Options
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHANGELOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ver 1.0.1 - Fixed the database.sql page as some of the insert statements had incorrect auto-increment phrases. - Added an if statement to sales.php to get rid of an inadvertant error message. Ver 1.0.2 - Fixed the parse error on the user/admin/removeuser.php page Ver 1.0.3 - Fixed the database.sql pages as one insert statement was missing a semi-colon.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LANGUAGE SUPPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Only English at this time. If you are interested in translating to another language, please contact us.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF SONIC AFFILIATE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Ver 1.0 to 1.0.1 - Download the program from http://sonicfog.com/sonic_affiliate/sonic_affiliate.zip then upload sales.php which will over-write the old sales.php. DO NOT RUN database.sql as this will ERASE any existing data in your current database. Ensure that in the CreativeType table that Banner has an ID of 1, Text has an ID of 2 and Text with Description has an ID of 3. You may want to drop the old CreativeType table and make a new one from the sql in database.sql and then insert the CreativeTypes with the Insert statements from database.sql. The same is true for the PaymentPreference table. Check needs to have a PaymentPreferenceID of 1 and PayPal needs to have a PaymentPreferenceID of 2. You can hand edit the db or use the sql statments from database.sql.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADING FROM PHP-Affiliate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You cannot upgrade from PHP Affiliate to Sonic Affiliate as there is a completely new database and a major re-write of the code.
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