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I've tried to play around with the member referral link:

http://example.com/member.php?action=reg...referrer=1

The non-mybb pages are just simple html. What I'm attempting to do is send someone to:

http://example.com/?referrer=1

They browse to any page they like within site non-mybb and mybb pages and "referrer=1" is remembered across site. If and when the go through registration process during session referrer will show as "admin" or whomever referrer was.

I tried this on example.com homepage:

<?php
// Start the session
session_start();
?>

<?php
// Set session variables
if (empty($_GET)) {
    $_SESSION['mode'] = "referrer";
}else{
    $_SESSION['mode'] = $_GET['mode'];
}
?>


Tried to insert 2nd portion (without php brackets) within mybb index.php, global.php, header, etc. to no avail during registration process.

Am I on right track with above or just wildly off and if so what should I be doing? I chose php because that is the guts of mybb, but would this be better suited for a javascript snippet? That seems like it would open up a whole other host of problems for a novice. It seems like a simple idea to carry over a cookie or variable in browser between different portions of site.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Try setting a mybb[referrer] cookie (with configured cookie prefix, if any) with the value set to the user ID.
This is set by MyBB from the GET parameters (https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/mybb_1....php#L1148), and used at https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/mybb_1...r.php#L890.

(2020-01-28, 05:24 PM)Devilshakerz Wrote: [ -> ]Try setting a mybb[referrer] cookie (with configured cookie prefix, if any) with the value set to the user ID.
This is set by MyBB from the GET parameters (https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/mybb_1....php#L1148), and used at https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/mybb_1...r.php#L890.

Let's see if understood correctly.  I would paste into top of all non-mybb html pages:

<?php
// Start the session
session_start();
?>

...and then underneath 1st link lines 1149-1167,

...next underneath that 2nd link lines 890-929?

(2020-01-28, 05:36 PM)maqueen Wrote: [ -> ]

(2020-01-28, 05:24 PM)Devilshakerz Wrote: [ -> ]Try setting a mybb[referrer] cookie (with configured cookie prefix, if any) with the value set to the user ID.
This is set by MyBB from the GET parameters (https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/mybb_1....php#L1148), and used at https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/mybb_1...r.php#L890.

Let's see if understood correctly.  I would paste into top of all non-mybb html pages:

<?php
// Start the session
session_start();
?>

...and then underneath 1st link lines 1149-1167,

...next underneath that 2nd link lines 890-929?

Something like this on non-MyBB pages:

<?php

if (isset($_GET['referrer'])) {
    setcookie('mybb[referrer]', (int)$_GET['referrer']);
}

?>

This cookie should be then recognized on the MyBB registration page (the links may help understand how that happens, if you're more familiar with PHP).

I tried what you wrote above in various combinations with a session starter, without, your code above head, in body, etc. Cookie isn't being set at beginning according to Chrome and FF.

So the browser doesn't list the cookie on the external page, when ?referrer=X is appended to its URL? Can you share the actual URLs for the file and forum?

session_ functions shouldn't be needed, and it's best to have the PHP code at the beginning of the file and the HTML content after ?>. Make sure they have a .php extension, rather than .html (if you can see PHP code in page source using a web browser, it means it's not being run on the server).

After hours I was literally about to give up.

"Make sure they have a .php extension, rather than .html (if you can see PHP code in page source using a web browser, it means it's not being run on the server). "

This:

<?php

if (isset($_GET['referrer'])) {
setcookie('mybb[referrer]', (int)$_GET['referrer']);
}

?>

AND THIS (is/was key)

Changing original site index.html to index.php...

Works like a charm across all pages now!

Thank you.