Versions: 3.1.x and higher
This article explains how to create links from your Free Hosted Gallery
pages to tour or join pages.
NATS Admin
In the NATS admin, you'll find an Adtools Admin page. This page lets
you import and create adtools for your affiliates to promotion your
content. One type of Adtool is a Free Hosted Gallery (FHG); a FHG is a
tour page that gives some sample content to surfers. Sometimes these
galleries reside on a completely different server from your tour
pages and members' area because they receive a lot of traffic.
You can link your FHGs to your tour or join pages by copy and pasting
the URLs below with the special in-line PHP statement to correctly
insert the NATS code into the URL. Here's an example:
http://nats.example.com/track/<?=(!empty($_REQUEST['nats']) && !preg_match('/[\'\"<>()\\\+\[\]]/', $_REQUEST['nats']))?$_REQUEST['nats']:'MDowOjE')?>/
Each hosted adtool has a default tour link for linking your Free Hosted
Galleries to the main tour pages. The default link will be different
for each site, so be sure to use the correct site for the default link.
To navigate this page, please follow these steps staring with going
to the Adtools Admin in figure 1.1:
Figure 1.1 the admin areas link to the Adtools Admin
Once in the Adtools Admin, you must select the correct adtool type
(Hosted Adtools in this case) and the correct site before clicking the
Go! button. Figures 1.2 through 1.6 depict navigating from the main Adtools Admin page to the list of hosted adtools.
Figure 1.2 The View / Modify drop down list
Figure 1.3 Select Hosted Adtools
Figure 1.4 Select the desired site from the list of sites (sample)
Figure 1.6 Use the PHP code in the box as your link to the tour page
You can insert this code anywhere on your Free Hosted Gallery page. If
you want to give direct links to the join form, use a deep link. Deep
linking lets you add a path to the end of the track URL in such a way
that it will redirect to either the join page itself or to a specific
subdirectory, document, or script other than the default as specified by
the URL in the Sites Admin. Using the link from the example, a deep
linked direct join form URL would look like this:
http://join.example.com/track/<?=(!empty($_REQUEST['nats']) && !preg_match('/[\'\"<>()\\\+\[\]]/', $_REQUEST['nats']))?$_REQUEST['nats']:'MDowOjIx')?>/join
This code must be manually inserted by you, your programming staff, or
development team. Typically this will appear in text or graphical form
as Join Here! or Main Site links to the tour pages.