EDIT: the coder wrote in the doc "you have to enter your ID"....the problem is only he is NOT specific where. I take it back with the "fraud" intention.....i cant edit my topic-title anymore...but he still could've pointed that out or AT LEAST have a dummy in the code ! --------------- i found that in the php scripts "unofficial amazon shopping cart" for AWS are hardcoded Affiliate IDs. Result: If you use this UNMODIFIED someone else gets your commision. proof: cart.php: $params = array( 'Service' => 'AWSECommerceService', 'SubscriptionId' => "15J7KD4D2WH0V9R5ED82", 'AssociateTag' => 'wwwpureescapn-20', 'Operation' => 'CartGet', 'CartId' => "$cartid", 'HMAC' => "$hmac", 'ResponseGroup' => 'Cart' ); CERTAINLY NOT MINE Also..in the ASM2 AWS script are hardcoded dev-tags, but i dont know what they do. Maybe the hardcoded dev-tags are harmless tho. But the above w/. the shopping cart strikes me as ODD...especially since the coder did NOT mention anything about this in the doc. I think its a little weird that the coder actually left them in
I can't speak for Roger however I believe this was asked about quite some time ago in the ASM2 forum. As Roger was the developer of the ASM2 script this would seem appropriate. Simply put it's Amazon's way of knowing who wrote the script. I seem to remember it being an Amazon requirement at one time? As far as I know only Associates ID's are used for tracking commission.
well the associate IDs were all over..i had to replace them quite often in the various scripts. Still fighting w/ the script and the shopping-cart...it works so far..except that the cart doesn't get any content when adding and updating....
I can't speak concerning the shopping cart as I have not looked at the code and I am not even sure which cart you are referring to? However I doubt you found Roger's "associate IDs" anywhere in ASM2 except maybe the cofig file where you are supposed to insert your Associate ID. There have been lots of us users who have highly modified the code without finding any hidden Associate IDs. Just curious as to where you downloaded your copy of the ASM2 script? I would like to take a look at it!
There is a hard-coded developer code in ASM2 - look for dev-t=D3E49ECS9E0KO in script/productpage.php (there might be another one somewhere else if I remember correctly, I have have to look deeper for this one). I don't think this has ever bothered my earnings though. It is just a developer token and I have never attempted to change it - the way I look at this is "Thanks to Amazon for my referrals, and let Amazon thanks Roger for developing the code." Please let me know here if anybody thinks otherwise. Thanks.
well yeah..dev-tokens are ok as it looks... But still...regarding the asocIDs in the other code...see it from that point of view...if you release a script....would you leave your commission-id in there ? I am talking to the guy btw. who did ne "unofficial shopping cart" thingy...not because of this but i really like his cart. Its just if i would write scripts and release it i just would xxxxxx out everything and then also notify people where to insert the IDs....or better...write code so that you enter the ID only once, in an include or similiar and then use that as a variable all over the code. But then...i am not here to CRITIZE freely available code..actually should be thankful for them.
While I am no programmer this is what I normally do on the simple scripts that I am able to hack out.
Yeah, make sure you do a search and replace before you use the scripts. I know of a few new people that didn't even change the adsense on those 155 Adsense websites and wondered why they were getting 0% CTR from their traffic...