How to create a few things on my website

Hi guys,

How can I create a refer friends link, that will automatically reward accounts with credits, i.e. each account automatically has a link, and then when someone signs up their account is rewarded XXXX credits.

Thanks for the help!

 

You'll need some type of server side language and a database.

Way out of the HTML / CSS scope, and if you're asking in this forum you'll most likely need a developer.

The run down though is you grab the reference id using $_GET, and you check that against the database, if that reference exists you credit said reference by updating the row with the new credit amount.

 

Thanks! Just gives me an idea of what needs to be done.

 

Which language are you using to develop such a useful thing?

 

I don't develop, sorry!

Anyone know roughly how much something like that would cost to make?

Thanks.

 

How much it cost depends on how elaborate it is. If you're just wanting affiliate tracking ( + adding "credits" ) but not doing anything else it shouldn't cost over $100 dollars to do it.

 

Price would also depend on whether it was being tied into an existing system (a game for example) where a back-end already exists (ie, you already have a user system in place), or if it is being developed from scratch (from db structure through to site integration)

 

Hi Friends,

To create HTML, you can write it from scratch in notepad, or use a WYSIWYG software program. HTML is not a programming language per se, and as such is much easier to use than true programming languages. You can learn basic HTML in less than an hour and start using it to create your very own web pages.

 

This kind of system sounds like something that is very commonly done. I would suggest trying to not reinvent the wheel here, and instead search for existing solutions - perhaps within the CMS you are currently probably using - in order to do this.