Gossamer Forum: Products: Gossamer Links: Development, Plugins and Globals: What does jump.cgi actually DO?

Sep 15, 2003, 4:11 PM

scorpioncapital

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Sep 15, 2003, 4:11 PM

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What does jump.cgi actually DO?

Does anybody know if jump.cgi?ID=xxx is supposed to just redirect to the URL of a detail page or a preset field in your database table?

Sep 15, 2003, 7:26 PM

ryel01

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Sep 15, 2003, 7:26 PM

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primarily it jumps the user to the url for that link. but, it also counts click throughs too for that link. one good thing about using it is that you can basically do anything after the user clicks by using plugins and custom code.

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Sep 15, 2003, 9:41 PM

scorpioncapital

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Sep 15, 2003, 9:41 PM

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so the URL is the url field in your link? I ask because in my system jump.cgi takes the user to the address in a URL field associated with my link and I'm wondering how in the world it "knows" to use that field to jump to - probably it's specified somewhere...

Sep 15, 2003, 9:43 PM

ryel01

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Sep 15, 2003, 9:43 PM

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yip, it uses the URL associated with the link.

When the link calls jump.cgi?ID=25 for eg, it looks up the database for link with ID number 25 and then redirects the user to the URL for that link.

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Sep 16, 2003, 2:14 AM

Andy

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Sep 16, 2003, 2:14 AM

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To be more exact;

Code:
my $table_name = $IN->param( 'DB' ) || 'Links';

...and;

Code:
# Jump to a URL, bump the hit counter. 
        else { 
            $goto = $rec->{URL}; 

            my $ip   = $ENV{REMOTE_HOST} || $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} || 'None'; 
            my $click_db = $DB->table ('ClickTrack'); 
            my $rows = $click_db->count ( { LinkID => $id, IP => $ip, ClickType => 'Hits' } ); 
            if (! $rows) { 
                $db->update ( { Hits => \"Hits + 1" }, { ID => $id }, { GT_SQL_SKIP_INDEX => 1 } ); 
                $click_db->insert ( { LinkID => $id, IP => $ip, ClickType => 'Hits', Created => \"NOW()"} ); 
            }

You can see this in admin/Links/Users/Jump.pm.

jump.cgi can do loads of things... i.e show an image, show a file, choose a random link, jump to a custom URL you want..and more. The only thing it doesn't seem to do is jump to the detailed page, whilst incrementing the hit counter. pugdogs 'detailed_page' plugin does this for you.

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 16, 2003, 7:57 AM

scorpioncapital

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Sep 16, 2003, 7:57 AM

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How do you make it jump to a custom URL you want using jump.cgi?

OR

given you have a URL in a field called 'myURL' for a link, how can jump.cgi be made to jump to that URL and therefore use it as a way to mask affiliate ID's?

Sep 16, 2003, 8:04 AM

Andy

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Sep 16, 2003, 8:04 AM

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You would have to modify Jump.pm I think.

Code:
$goto = $rec->{URL};

to...

Code:
if ($IN->param('Field')) { 
  $goto = $rec->{$IN->param('Field')}; 
} else { 
  $goto = $rec->{URL}; 
}

... and then call it with something like;

jump.cgi?ID=1234&Field=NewField (or leave the Field= bit off if you want to jump to the URL bit).

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 16, 2003, 11:10 AM

scorpioncapital

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Sep 16, 2003, 11:10 AM

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So the field named 'URL' in a Link record is a 'LSQL special field' used by jump?

Sep 16, 2003, 11:25 AM

Andy

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Sep 16, 2003, 11:25 AM

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No, its not special, but it is required if you want to use jump.cgi to redirect to a site....

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk