NATS For Networks Affiliate Remote Login
You can create a custom form for affiliates to log in to your NATS For Networks installation. All that is needed is to create a form that submits to the following url:
http://<tracking domain>/internal.php
You would replace <tracking domain> with the Tracking Domain of your NATS For Networks install. The only variables that need to be sent for a successful login with the post are "user" and "pass". If the user is submitting and fails to enter the correct login information, and they are posting from the tracking domain of your NATS For Networks install, they will be redirected to the external login page of your NATS For Networks install. Otherwise they will receive an error response regarding why their login was unsuccessful.
Here is a basic example of what this form may look like.
<!-- Simple form to post to NATS For Networks and login --> <form action="http://example.natsfornetworks.com/internal.php" method="post"> Username: <input type="text" name="user" /><br /> Password: <input type="password" name="pass" /><br /> <input type="submit" /> </form>
Displaying your own error page
If you prefer to display your own errors, you can send a post to verify the username and password are correct before sending the user. For instance use javascript to handle the form submission and send an ajax post to a validation script like this one:
$response = array(
'result' => 'fail'
);
if ( ! empty( $_POST['user'] ) && ! empty( $_POST['pass'] ) && check_length( $_POST['user'], 2, 255 ) && check_length( $_POST['pass'], 3, 255 ) ) {
$response_headers = get_headers( AFFILIATE_URL . '/internal.php?user=' . $_POST['user'] . '&pass=' . $_POST['pass'] . '', 1 );
if ( array_key_exists( 'Location', $response_headers ) && strpos($response_headers[0], 'HTTP/1.1 302') !== FALSE ) {
$response = array(
'result' => 'success'
);
}
}
If the post returns success, you can let the form submit like normal. If the post returns error, you can tell the surfer to try again.
Displaying Forgot Password
Similarly, you can trigger forgot password from your own page and check for your own errors by making it an ajax call instead of a direct form submission. The post script might look like this one:
$response = array(
'result' => 'fail'
);
parse_str( $_POST['formdata'], $data );
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, AFFILIATE_URL . '/submit.php' );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query( $data ) );
$response['response'] = curl_exec( $curl );
$header = curl_getinfo( $curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE );
curl_close( $curl );
preg_match( '#<div class="action-details">(.+?)</div>#is', $response['response'], $found );
if ( $header === 302 ) {
$response = array(
'result' => 'success',
'message' => 'An email has been sent with your new password. ',
'header' => $header
);
}
if ( $header === 200 ) {
if ( $found ) {
$response = array(
'result' => 'error',
'message' => $found[1],
'header' => $header
);
}
}
