-// Get referal ID from ref or refid variable
-if (isGetRequestElementSet('ref')) $ref = getRequestElement('ref');
- elseif (isGetRequestElementSet('refid')) $ref = getRequestElement('refid');
-
-if (!empty($ref)) {
- // Invalid request by default
- $ref = 0;
-
- // Test if nickname or numeric id
- if (isExtensionActive('nickname')) {
- // Nickname in URL, so load the ID
- $result = SQL_QUERY_ESC("SELECT `userid` FROM `{?_MYSQL_PREFIX?}_user_data` WHERE `nickname`='%s' LIMIT 1",
- array($ref), __FILE__, __LINE__);
-
- // Load userid
- list($ref) = SQL_FETCHROW($result);
-
- // Free result
- SQL_FREERESULT($result);
- } // END - if
-
- // Also edit this 0 !
- if (empty($ref)) $ref = 0;