MSK PHP Referral System – Create Simple user Referral System for blog

MSK PHP Referral System – Simple user Referral System for Blogs

MSK PHP Referral System

Create your Own Referral System for your Blog Which Helps us to Promote our Latest Blog post, popular posts, and Ebooks.

Mostly We having Referral System System for App and Product Promotions.We can also Promote our Blog VIA Referral System 😛

How to Promote the Blog/pages/post promote Via Referral System?

Ok, it’s Time to Explain but I did not know how it has gone to Work.

Install our MSK PHP Referral System Plugin and Create a Welcome page for the user’s who visit your blog/website from Via Referral URL

On that Page Add an Info about your Blogs or add your Blogs Popular Stuffs also you can easily promote your E-books by this Method 🙂

Create an URL for the Website/Blog Owners who are all going to promote your blog/website through Banners/Site-wide links.

it will count the Referral URL’s Clicks you can Set some count points & reward the promoters.

Our Plugin having Cookies for Accurate Click Counts 🙂

Features in MSK PHP Referral System

• User Login for Admin
• SEO Friendly URL
• Custom Welcome page
• Cookies

Platform Used

• PHP
• MYSQL
• PHP Cookies

Requirments

• PHP/MYSQL Supported Hosting Platform
• PHP 5.6 or PHP7
• MYSQL or MariaDB

How to Install and Use the MSK PHP Referral System?

First We Need to Create 8 PHP files for this Plugin

File Structure

Plugin Setup and Installation

• First Create a Folder for this Plugin Named as “refer“
• After that Create a Database table for the plugin to store users data
• Run this Below query on Database to create tables

CREATE TABLE referral
(
 id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 user VARCHAR (500) NOT NULL UNIQUE, 
 str VARCHAR (500) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
 clicks INT NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY (ID)
);

Table Output

• db.php – Database Connection

<?php

session_start();
error_reporting(0);

$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'YOUR DB USER';
$dbpass = 'YOUR DB PASS';
$dbname = 'YOUR DB NAME';

$con=mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass,$dbname) //connect to the database server
or die ("Could not connect to mysql because ".mysqli_error());

mysqli_select_db($con,$dbname) //select the database
or die ("Could not select to mysql because ".mysqli_error());

//Admin User Credits
$admin_username = 'YOUR USERNAME';
$admin_password = 'YOUR PASSWORD';

?>

• Replace YOUR DB USER, YOUR DB PASS, YOUR DB NAME with Database Login Credits
• Replace YOUR USERNAME, YOUR PASSWORD  with your Username and password this one for Admin Login
• login.php – Login Protection for Referral Generator Page

<?php


include('db.php');


if(isset($_SESSION['loggedin'])) {
header('location:index.php');
}

if($_POST)
{
$data = $_POST;
if( ($data['username'] == $admin_username) && ($data['password'] == $admin_password) )
{
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = 'Yes';
header('location:index.php');
}
}


$message = 'Invalid Account Details!';
 
?>

<?php
if(isset($_POST['username'])) {
echo $message;
}
?>


<h2>MSK PHP Referral System</h2>
<div class="clearfix">&nbsp;</div>
<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username">
<br />
<input type="password" class="form-control" name="password" placeholder="password">
<button type="submit">Let me login</button>
</form>

Login Page Output

• logincheck.php – Session for Login Page

<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']))
{
header("location:login.php");
}
?>

• logout.php

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = false;
session_destroy();
header("location:index.php");
?>

• index.php – Create Referral URL

• Replace http://localhost/refer/ With your URL

Referral Admin page Output

• welcome.php – Welcome page for users came from Referral URL

Welcome Page Output

• status.php – Check the user referral Click Counts by ID value

Status Page Output

Check User refer Status

http://example.com/refer/status.php?id=1

• HTACCESS  for SEO Friendly URL (http://example.com/refer/allwebtuts)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ welcome.php?str=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ welcome.php?str=$1

Database

All the user’s Details are Stored in Database

Cookies

PHP Cookies For Genuine Click Counts

W3schools – Learn More About PHP Cookies

Modify Cookies

you can Find this Below line on the welcome.php file

//cookie for visitor
setcookie("referral", $str, time() + (86400 * 7), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day // 86400 * 7 for 7 Days

• referral – Cookie Name
• $str – Cookie Content

Set your Own Cookie Times & Conditions

Download Plugin File

Tutorial File

Security

For a demo, I Display the Login page in Main Folder.For Better security Move the Admin Page to Separate Folder or Create a folder for admin on Plugin Folder.Download My Sample Setup’s

PS: This Plugin Package contains Demo Front-end Design Only.Cook your Frond-End as Per your Taste 🙂

From the Editor’s Desk

Hope this tutorial Will Helps you to Create a Referral System for your websites and Blogs.

If you Have Any Doubts on this Topic Just Drop your Comments Here I will Guide you.

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