AdLinkFly - Monetized URL Shortener

• created: 07/04/2016
• latest update: 06/08/2018
• by: Mighty Scripts
• www.mightyscripts.com/
• email: admin@mightyscripts.com

Earn money by starting your own monetized link shortening service, just like adf.ly, ouo.io, linkshrink.net or shorte.st! Allow members to shorten links & earn money, and keep a share of the profit. AdLinkFly includes a complete publisher and advertiser system, campaigns, referrals, withdrawals, API, translation ready, PayPal, Payza, Skrill, Bitcoin, Webmoney, Money Wallet & Bank Transfer integration, reCAPTCHA integration and much more!

• PHP>= 5.6.0
• mod_rewrite module enabled
• pdo_mysql extension
• OpenSSL extension
• intl extension
• cURL extension with support for https protocol
• mbstring extension
• DOM extension
• BCMath extension
• MySQL 5.5.x or greater

Most of the above requirements are available on most web hosts.

• Download the zipped package to your local computer from codecanyon and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.
• In the extracted folder you will find ‘AdLinkFly.zip’ Extract this file and upload its content using an FTP client to access your host web server where you would like to install the script.
• Make sure that tmp, logs and config directories and its sub-directories are writeable.
• Open your website where you have uploaded the extracted content like http://www.mydomain.com/ sometimes you may get 404 error /install/index is not found, click here for the fix.
• You can see the below video for installation and overview of all features

• The first screen is to check for server requirements as you can see on the below image

• Step 1, add database credentials as you can see on the below image

• Step 2, is to create tables and load initial data as you can see on the below image

• Step 3, is to create the admin user as you can see on the below image

• The last step is to inform you that the installation is successfully done :)

• Backup all files and database(Very Important)
• Download the latest version from here https://codecanyon.net/downloads
• Upload ALL the new files and folders over the old files and folders.
• Open this URL http://your-domain.com/admin/upgrade then click on ”Upgrade Database” button, make sure to replace your-domain.com with your actual domain name.
• That’s it :)

1. You need to decide the ads types you will use into your website like banner, interstitial and/or popups ads by navigating to Admin Area >> Settings >> Links
2. Add price rates for ads for each country by navigating to Admin Area >> Ads >> Banner/interstitial/popups make sure to set prices for all traffic sources. Click here to learn more about ads.
3. Adding ads is divided into two sections:
   1. Adding ads to the campaigns: Let say you will create a campaign for banner size 468x60 from there you will add the ad code for size 468x60 to create a campaign navigate to Admin Area >> Campaigns >> Create Banner/Interstitial/Popups Campaign from there you will be able to add your ads codes. click here to learn more about campaigns.
   2. Adding ads for the other places(728x90 and 336x280): After adding the banner size 468x60 into your campaign and you wish to add more ads into the other places 728x90 and 336x280, then navigate Admin Area >> Settings >> Admin Ads
4. Enable captcha to prevent any fake/spam traffic by navigating to Admin Area >> Settings >> Captcha
5. Start shorting your links

• Calculating earnings is done only via campaigns
• There are two types of campaigns:
  • Non-default: means that the campaign will count earnings.
  • Default: means that the campaign will NOT count earnings. Also, default campaigns will be displayed when there are no eligible non-default campaigns for the visitors.
• Make sure to create at least one default campaign for all campaigns banner, interstitial and popup for all countries or for "WorldWide Deal" to prevent any errors for visitors that don't have eligable campaigns
• After creating campaigns you can't edit the advertiser price because this is the amount that already paid for campaign but you can edit the publisher price

Manage Campaigns

You can manage campaigns by navigating to Admin area -> Campaigns >> List from there you will be able to see all campaigns and you will be able to pause, resume, cancel campaigns as you can see on the below images

AdLinkFly allows you to user multiple domains when users shorten links.

All you need is to add the new domain as an alias/parked/cname domain to your main domain from your hosting control panel(Your hosting company can help you do this) then add the new domain to Admin Area >> Settings >> General >> Multi Domains

If you want to set a different domain for the short links rather than the main domain, you can do this by navigating to Admin Area >> Settings >> General >> Default Short URL Domain also make sure to remove the "http" or "https" and the trailing slash (/)!. Example: domain.com

Using Quick Link Tool

Everyone can use the shortest way to shorten links with AdLinkFly.

http://www.yourdomain.com/st/?api=<<api_token_code>>&url=yourdestinationlink.com

Using Mass Shrinker Tool

Each member can Enter up to 20 URLs (one per line) to be shrunk and added to your account. You can find this information by navigating to member area >> Tools >> Mass Shrinker as you can see on the below image

Using Developers API

http://www.yourdomain.com/api/?api=<<api_token>>&url=yourdestinationlink.com

{"status":"success","shortenedUrl":""http://localhost/adlinkfly/xxxxx""}

PayPal Setup

To enable PayPal as a payment and withdraw method, you need to navigate to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> PayPal Settings from there enable PayPal and add your PayPal email address you wish to receive payments on as you can see in the below image

For automatic approve successful payments into your website you will need to enable IPN into your business PayPal account by doing the following:

• Log into your PayPal account
• Go to Profile then “My Selling Tools”
• Look for an option labelled “Instant Payment Notification”. Click on the update button for that option.
• Click “Choose IPN Settings”
• Enter the URL of your website like https://example.com/payment/ipn?payment_method=paypal and hit “Save”. Make sure to replace https://example.com with your actual website address.

Stripe Setup

To enable Stripe as a payment method, you need to navigate to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> Stripe Settings from there enable Stripe and add your Stripe account Secret and Publishable keys. You can get these keys from your account settings.

Payza Setup

To enable Payza as a payment method, you need to navigate to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> Payza Settings from there enable Payza and add your Payza merchant email address you wish to receive payments on as you can see in the below image

Skrill Setup

To enable Skrill as a payment method, you need to navigate to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> Skrill Settings from there enable Skrill and add your Skrill merchant email address you wish to receive payments on and add Skrill Secret Word. In order to setup your secret word do the following:

1. Go to the Settings > Developer Settings section of your Skrill account.
2. In the Secret Word field, enter your secret word. The following restrictions apply:
   • All characters must be in lowercase
   • The length should not exceed 10 characters
   • Special characters are not permitted (e.g. @, %, $, etc.)
   • If you insert any uppercase symbols, they will automatically be converted to lowercase.
3. To apply your changes, click Save.

CoinPayments Setup

To enable CoinPayments as a payment method,

1. Go to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> CoinPayments Settings from there enable CoinPayments
2. Add your Public and Private Keys by doing the following:
   • Login To your CoinPayments account
   • Go to Account > API Keys
   • Click on "Generate new key" button
   • You will get Public Key and Private Key
3. Add your merchant id and to get it navigate to Account > Account Settings > Basic Settings from there you will find the merchant Id.
4. Add your IPN Secret. you need to setup it first at your account by doing the following
   1. Go to Account > Account Settings > Merchant Settings
   2. In the IPN Secret field, enter a good random string nobody can guess.
   3. In the IPN Verification Method select "HMAC"
   4. Click on "Update Account" button

Coinbase Settings

To enable Coinbase as a payment method, do the following:

1. Go to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> Coinbase Settings from there enable Coinbase
2. Add your Coinbase API Key and API Secret Key. to get them do the following:
   • Go to https://www.coinbase.com/settings/api and select "+ New API key".
   • You will then see the API key creation dialogue. Under the "API v2 permissions" select all permissions.
   • You will get both API Key and API Secret
3. After that make sure to complete your Merchant Profile from here https://www.coinbase.com/merchant_profiles

WebMoney Settings

To enable WebMoney as a payment method, do the following:

1. Go to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> WebMoney Settings from there enable WebMoney
2. Enter your merchant purse, by doing the following:
   • Go to https://merchant.wmtransfer.com/conf/purses.asp and you will find your purse id
   • Click on "Change" link
   •  Tick on "Let to use URL sent in form" and "Send notification to keeper in case of payment error" as you see in the following image
   • 
   • Click on "Save" button

Perfect Money Settings

To enable Perfect Money as a payment method, do the following:

1. Go to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> Perfect Money Settings from there enable Perfect Money
2. Add your payee account id by doing the following:
   • Login to your account at Perfect Money
   • Under "My Accounts" you will see your Payee account id
3. Add your Perfect Money Alternate Passphrase by doing the following:
   1. Go to Settings
   2. In the Alternate Passphrase field, click on "Generate" button
   3. Click on "Apply changes"

Payeer Settings

To enable Payeer as a payment method, do the following:

1. Go to Admin Area >> Settings >> Payment >> Payeer Settings from there enable Payeer
2. To add your Merchant ID, Secret Key and Encryption Key do the following:
   • Login to your Payeer account
   • Click on "Dashboard" from the left side menu
   • Click on "Merchant Settings"
   • Click on "Add Merchant"
   • You will see a form and the first field is "ID" which is your merchant id, add a secret key, encryption key and for Success URL, Fail URL, Status URL add your website address

Manage Withdraws

You can manage withdraws by navigating to Admin area -> Withdraws from there you will be able to see all withdraws and you will be able to approve and complete withdraws as you can see on the below image

Withdraw Review

To review withdraw IPs, countries, referrers,..., click on withdraw ID or "View" button then you will get all withdraw details as you see below

AdLinkFly supports three types of Captcha reCAPTCHA, Invisible reCAPTCHA & Solve Media.

To enable captcha go to Admin Area >> Settings >> Captcha from there enable captcha and select the captcha type you want.

Get reCAPTCHA and Invisible reCAPTCHA Keys

To get reCAPTCHA and  Invisible reCAPTCHA site and secret keys do the following:

1. Login to your Google account
2. Go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list and generate your keys
3. Make sure to add all domains you are using into your website in "Domains" field.

Get SolveMedia Keys

1. Login to your account https://portal.solvemedia.com/portal/login
2. Go to Configure > Sites
3. Click on "New Site" button
4. Add website description and add your website address(Leave it empty if you are having multi-domains) then select the interesting categories
5. Click on "Submit" Button
6. After that, click on "Keys" button and you will find all required keys

Get Coinhive Keys

1. Login to you account https://coinhive.com/account/login
2. Go to Settings > Sites & API Keys
3. From there you can see your "Site Key (public)" and "Secret Key (private)"

Social login with Facebook

• Go to https://developers.facebook.com/ and click on "Add a New App" button
• Add your "Display Name", "Contact Email" and "Category" then click on "Create App ID".
• Click on "Settings" menu item from the left side.
• In the Basic settings, click the Add Platform button below the settings configuration.
• Select Website in the platform dialog.
• Enter your website URL
• In the App Domains text input, add your domain that matches the one in the URL.
• Save your settings.
• On the left-hand side, click "+Add Product" and select "Facebook Login"
• On the left-hand side, click on "Facebook Login" under "Product Settings"
• Add https://website.com/social-auth/callback/facebook/ for "Valid OAuth redirect URIs" then Click on "Save Settings"
• Click on "App Review" menu item from the left side.
• Set "Make App public?" to "Yes"
• Click on "Settings" menu item from the left side, from there you will get your "App ID" and "App Secret"
• That's it.

Social login with Twitter

- Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ and click on "Create New App".

- Fill out any required fields such as the application name, description, website and accept the terms.

- Click on "Create Your App".

- Click on the second tab "Settings"

- Add "Callback URL" like this http://yourdomain.com/social-auth/callback/twitter/ and make sure to replace "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain.

- Add your "Privacy Policy URL" and "Terms of Service URL"

- Scroll down and click on "Update Settings" button

- Click on the last tab "Permissions"

- Select "Read Only" for "Access" then scroll down under "Additional Permissions" and select  "Request email addresses from users"

- Scroll down and click on "Update Settings" button

- Click on the last tab "Keys and Access Tokens"

- From there you can get your "Consumer Key (API Key)" and "Consumer Secret (API Secret)"

- That's it.

Social Login with Google

Installation FAQ

Rewrite​​Base /

RewriteEngine on​​

How can I earn?

• Your advertisers are able to create campaigns and will pay you then publishers will short links then both of you and publishers will earn money.
• If you don’t have advertisers, our script allows admin to create campaigns and you can use third-party ads to be displayed on your websites like
  • https://www.adcash.com/
  • https://a-ads.com/
  • http://www.clicksor.com/
  • http://www.bidvertiser.com/
  • http://popmyads.com/
  • https://propellerads.com/
  • https://www.popads.net
  • or any advertising companies.

Publishers have zero views and earnings, what I do?

Make sure to add Non-default campaigns then views and earnings will start counting as you can see in the following image

Why is the interstitial ad page blank?

How can I change the CPM?

How to disable advertising or campaigns?

I'm getting Forbidden error when saving admin settings

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//website.com/css/custom.css"/>

<style>
header, .captcha-page #mainNav, .interstitial-page #mainNav, .banner-page #mainNav {
    background-image: url("Your Image URL");
}
</style>

Short links are generated with HTTP not HTTPS although I have an SSL installed

How can I change the home page content?

• For Classic Theme: /src/Template/Pages/home.ctp
• For Modern Theme: /plugins/ModernTheme/src/Template/Pages/home.ctp
• For Cloud Theme: /plugins/CloudTheme/src/Template/Pages/home.ctp

Why prices are not changing in front end?

<h3>Referral Banners</h3>

<!-- Nav tabs -->
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
    <li role="presentation" class="active"><a href="#banner-728x90" aria-controls="banner-728x90" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">728x90</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a href="#banner-468x60" aria-controls="profile" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">468x60</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a href="#banner-300x250" aria-controls="messages" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">300x250</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a href="#banner-250x250" aria-controls="settings" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">250x250</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a href="#banner-160x600" aria-controls="settings" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">160x600</a></li>
</ul>

<!-- Tab panes -->
<div class="tab-content">

    <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane text-center active" id="banner-728x90">
        <p></p>
        <a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/728x90" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
        <p></p>
        <textarea class="form-control" rows="4" readonly>
<!-- Start of banner code -->
<a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/728x90" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
<!-- End of banner code -->
        </textarea>
    </div>

    <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane text-center" id="banner-468x60">
        <p></p>
        <a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/468x60" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
        <p></p>

        <textarea class="form-control" rows="4" readonly>
<!-- Start of banner code -->
<a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/468x60" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
<!-- End of banner code -->
        </textarea>
    </div>

    <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane text-center" id="banner-300x250">
        <p></p>
        <a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/300x250" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
        <p></p>

        <textarea class="form-control" rows="4" readonly>
<!-- Start of banner code -->
<a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/300x250" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
<!-- End of banner code -->
        </textarea>
    </div>

    <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane text-center" id="banner-250x250">
        <p></p>
        <a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/250x250" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
        <p></p>

        <textarea class="form-control" rows="4" readonly>
<!-- Start of banner code -->
<a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/250x250" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
<!-- End of banner code -->
        </textarea>
    </div>

    <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane text-center" id="banner-160x600">
        <p></p>
        <a href="[referral_link]"><img src="//placehold.it/160x600" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
        <p></p>

        <textarea class="form-control" rows="4" readonly>
<!-- Start of banner code -->
<a href="[referral_link]><img src="//placehold.it/160x600" title="Make short links and earn the biggest money" /></a>
<!-- End of banner code -->
        </textarea>
    </div>
</div>

• ”Mighty URL Shortener” script is focused on URL shorting and it works like bit.ly but with more advanced reports & analytics by continents, countries, states, cities, device type, device brand & device name. Also, member plans.
• “AdLinkFly” script is focused on monetizing URL shortener which is working like adf.ly and ouo.io with features like publisher and advertisers areas, referrals system, campaigns, withdraw system, different ads types like Interstitial and banner and more...

Shared Hosting

• A2 Hosting
• Hostinger
• HawkHost
• BanaHosting
• GoDaddy
• NameCheap
•  

VPS Hosting

• KnownHost