I would like to create a system that rewards the users of my forum for referring visitors.

How would it be possible to code a system so when somebody clicks a link that one of my users has posted somewhere, that user gets reputation points (a system already installed on my forum)

EG: the link would look like: http://sonicfurytudios.com/index.php?refer=username
So when someone clicks on the above link, "username" gets 10 reputation points.

It would probably have to only allow one reputation payout per IP click.






I hope you understand the above


Thanks.

So I'm guessing nobody can help me?

Has this topic been moved? didn't notice it here before.

Well if the URL is in the form you give above, it would be relatively simple to pick out the IP address, check whether it had been used before, and then add points to the right user.

The trouble is, what is to stop a user creating a website of their own, with dozens of new links that each give them points?

I don't think that would really be a problem.
My forum is pretty small at the moment, so I think if that starts happening I can find some way to correct it.

Are you looking for help in coding this yourself or are you looking for someone to do it for you?

Originally Posted by cptnwinky

Are you looking for help in coding this yourself or are you looking for someone to do it for you?

Well, I have almost no PHP experience, so if somebody can do it for me, or at least point me in the right direction. That would be great.

what i recommend is that no one is going to code it for you unless it was small but most of the time you would post a php code and we in our free time would look at it to make sure if it is valid and give reasons on what we changed. every one here does that i do as i have very little php experiance but gaining alot day by day. mainly from learning from this forum, php tutorials, PHP & MySQL for dummies, and PHP 5 For dummies. as they can help you learn the basics of creating php code. the following is not even a code that i classify

PHP Code:

<?php
echo 'Hello world!';
?>

so look for some tutorials as i have no time right now to help people. best place to start would be http://php.net as it is the PHP web site

Thanks for the advice,
I was thinking of learning some PHP, but I'm very busy at the moment.

When I have some more free time, I will take some tutorials.



Would you reccomend buying books, or using online guides?

If you want me to do this for you I can do this in probably a day for pretty cheap. PM me if your interested.

Well, I don't think I'm going to be able to offer you any money, sorry.

php is by far the easiest scripting language to learn. i created this site along with help from a friend (not this site) http://iraqif.jonspcrepair.com