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Old 12-19-2004, 04:22 AM  
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Originally posted by European Lee
From my understanding of php/MySQL it should actually be quite easy to do.

You simply have a 'key' based on the amount of seconds from a given date for example:

Based on the date/time of this post the key would be something like:

A - 1
B - 2
C - 3
D - 4
E - 5

etc etc

The script would write the data to MySQL using that key so that the word 'BAD' would appear as '214' in the MySQL database.

The script would know the key but, an affiliate program wouldnt.

Regards,

Lee
If the script "knows" the key, than the affiliate program also "knows" the key.

If the code is installed on the affiliate program's server, there are many ways to reverse engineer whatever methodthey are using to encode the data. Obviously with something like shaving there is enough of a financial incentive for them to do it.
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