Need a referral-branded site

skadet posted this at 06:10 — 31st January 2006.

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Hello,

I am the webmaster for four corporately owned radio stations, and we're doing a cross-station promotion. I need to come up with a way to brand the site for the promotion site depending on which radio station site the user clicked through from.

The solution I came up with from my PHP background was to do the following:

*4 seperate directories for branding assets (graphics)
*PHP finds the referring website and sets the working directory variable to the one that corresponds to the website (if the user came from KSLF for example, then $asset_path = "/KSLF";
*Then insert strands of PHP into the HTML of the page:
/logo.png> etc etc.

This works, but makes for ugly HTML code.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Busy posted this at 08:32 — 31st January 2006.

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You'd need a default image incase the referring website isn't found or person comes from bookmark or other means.

You can't use radiostaionxyz.com/camefrom=here type thing? (using series of numbers instead of words).

Or if all sites on same server maybe a form and use _POST method ?

skadet posted this at 16:48 — 31st January 2006.

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Any of those would be fine, I think my question was more about implementing the variables in the HTML more than anything. Is that snippet above they way it's gotta happen?

Thanks,

Busy posted this at 20:01 — 31st January 2006.

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If your just talking one image it should be fine, if you're talking about a whole layout then maybe a switch statement at the top of your page and have all your details (image names, site name ...) set as variables, so your code would be something like

Welcome to

<?php
 echo $sitename; 
?>

.
" width="??" height ...
If the images were different sizes then using getimagesize() would be better

I used long and short PHP tags in above, keep to what you perfer or know best