I'm relatively new to PHP and I was just wondering how most people go about programming an affiliate tracking system.
I've seen how people usually have affiliates sign up and then give them an affiliate referral link which looks something to the effect of: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?aff=myname. I understand how that works but how does it keep track of the referrer while the user browses other pages?
Affiliate Tracking
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Some sites set cookies, as a means of "any visitor your refer is YOUR visitor for 30 days, even if they come back 3 weeks later!". That's how that is done.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.