Comments on: Prosper202: The Love Hate Relationship http://madppc.com/prosper202-the-love-hate-relationship/ PPC, PHP, and other Affiliate Marketing tips. It's OK to be MAD! Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:58:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Why You Should Be Using Prosper202, A Good Campaign Isn’t All Adcopy and LP. | Mad PPC http://madppc.com/prosper202-the-love-hate-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Why You Should Be Using Prosper202, A Good Campaign Isn’t All Adcopy and LP. | Mad PPC Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:05:22 +0000 http://madppc.com/?p=112#comment-28 [...] sure did write a craptacular post about Prosper202.  Yeah it was a rant, that’s for sure.  However if it wasn’t for [...] [...] sure did write a craptacular post about Prosper202.  Yeah it was a rant, that’s for sure.  However if it wasn’t for [...]

]]> By: Brad http://madppc.com/prosper202-the-love-hate-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Brad Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:17:59 +0000 http://madppc.com/?p=112#comment-24 As for Magic Quotes I should have mentioned that, however that should be automatically detected and dealt with accordingly or you could just stripslashes() regardless. Thanks for pointing out that post Wes, however we are on separate pages. By doing it the way he did it your loosing out on one of the best features of Prosper202 which is being able to determine exactly what click and ad caused a conversion. By doing what is posted your loosing that tracking power, and I'll be doing a post [hopefully soon] on how to get around that. You see because doing it that way doesn't allow us to track our ad [if you don't set it up in Prosper202] without building another app. Don't get me wrong it can be done, it's just kind of a pain in the ass to have to build another app to do it that way. Waste of time IMHO. Whether or not that makes any sense, I want to thank you guys for actually taking the time to read the post and comment. As for Magic Quotes I should have mentioned that, however that should be automatically detected and dealt with accordingly or you could just stripslashes() regardless.

Thanks for pointing out that post Wes, however we are on separate pages. By doing it the way he did it your loosing out on one of the best features of Prosper202 which is being able to determine exactly what click and ad caused a conversion. By doing what is posted your loosing that tracking power, and I’ll be doing a post [hopefully soon] on how to get around that. You see because doing it that way doesn’t allow us to track our ad [if you don't set it up in Prosper202] without building another app.

Don’t get me wrong it can be done, it’s just kind of a pain in the ass to have to build another app to do it that way. Waste of time IMHO.

Whether or not that makes any sense, I want to thank you guys for actually taking the time to read the post and comment.

]]> By: Wes Mahler http://madppc.com/prosper202-the-love-hate-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Wes Mahler Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:13:20 +0000 http://madppc.com/?p=112#comment-23 Hey Brad, your right some of this issues need to be addressed. We're in process of re-hauling over the system, but it is still awhile out as the system was built and is extremely hard to change, the only way to do it is completely rebuild it for the most part. But yes those text-ads are really a pain, the best way that other people are just not using them as you can skip the entire section if needed. The text-ads area really needs to be worked, I agree, definitely taken note! Although it isn't really documented, there is a way to pass extra variables through on your affiliate link, to track extra-information like adgroups or whatever you want to track. It would have to be setup like Justins' pre-pop code, which takes in a variable, and then adds extra information at the end of the affiliate link. in your case-adding extra information to the subid. http://www.exosus.com/?p=26 On the extra slashes, we are using MYSQL_REAL_ESCAPE_STRING which puts in the slashes to prevent mysql injection like you said. But it appears that the host the currently p202 installation on, also has MAGIC QUOTES ON which puts an additional slashes to prevent mysql injeciton, so now its adding in the extra slashes. (we use the mysql_real_escape_string, because just relying on MAGIC QUOTES is unsecure.) Your absolutely right, we need to fix some things, I don't have an exact date, we are working on a new version of tracking202 to be released on Oct 22nd, sorry about all of the hassle with anything, some things need re-working, and thanks for bringing it to attention further as it does help! Hey Brad, your right some of this issues need to be addressed. We’re in process of re-hauling over the system, but it is still awhile out as the system was built and is extremely hard to change, the only way to do it is completely rebuild it for the most part.

But yes those text-ads are really a pain, the best way that other people are just not using them as you can skip the entire section if needed. The text-ads area really needs to be worked, I agree, definitely taken note!

Although it isn’t really documented, there is a way to pass extra variables through on your affiliate link, to track extra-information like adgroups or whatever you want to track. It would have to be setup like Justins’ pre-pop code, which takes in a variable, and then adds extra information at the end of the affiliate link. in your case-adding extra information to the subid. http://www.exosus.com/?p=26

On the extra slashes, we are using MYSQL_REAL_ESCAPE_STRING which puts in the slashes to prevent mysql injection like you said. But it appears that the host the currently p202 installation on, also has MAGIC QUOTES ON which puts an additional slashes to prevent mysql injeciton, so now its adding in the extra slashes. (we use the mysql_real_escape_string, because just relying on MAGIC QUOTES is unsecure.)

Your absolutely right, we need to fix some things, I don’t have an exact date, we are working on a new version of tracking202 to be released on Oct 22nd, sorry about all of the hassle with anything, some things need re-working, and thanks for bringing it to attention further as it does help!

]]> By: Steven http://madppc.com/prosper202-the-love-hate-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Steven Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:15:47 +0000 http://madppc.com/?p=112#comment-22 The text ad function is actually for your own reference. While you can copy your text ad over, you can also name it whatever you want if its easier to track it. Theres no rule that says you have to copy an exact text ad over if that makes it easier. You are also welcome to append variables to the URL already if you want to track things that way. As for the backslash issue, check to see if magic quotes is on for your server and may need to be turned off. If that's not it, maybe I am mistaken. In this industry, no matter what anyone does, if its a tracking tool, and you're not as big as Google or something, people will have their doubts. Part of eliminating that concern was creating the self-hosted version. The setup may be a bit confusing at first so people may not know how to set up things correctly but we tried to make it as user friendly as possible. That said, I do appreciate the feedback. Hope things are working out great. The text ad function is actually for your own reference. While you can copy your text ad over, you can also name it whatever you want if its easier to track it. Theres no rule that says you have to copy an exact text ad over if that makes it easier. You are also welcome to append variables to the URL already if you want to track things that way.

As for the backslash issue, check to see if magic quotes is on for your server and may need to be turned off. If that’s not it, maybe I am mistaken.

In this industry, no matter what anyone does, if its a tracking tool, and you’re not as big as Google or something, people will have their doubts. Part of eliminating that concern was creating the self-hosted version. The setup may be a bit confusing at first so people may not know how to set up things correctly but we tried to make it as user friendly as possible. That said, I do appreciate the feedback. Hope things are working out great.

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