Open Source PHP Affiliate Platform?

[Grokodile]

I've got someone who wants me to help them create an application to support their MLM ideas. While I'm not a big MLM person myself, it's work.

Anyway, to avoid starting from scratch, is there a good open source system out there that manages affiliate systems and payout calculations?

My apologies if this isn't the right place to ask the question... it just seemed that from my point of view I'll be customizing and coding PHP/MySQL systems one way or the other.

[arvana]

I've done a fair bit of searching for a good open-source affiliate system, and the short answer is no, there aren't any yet that are really good.

There are, however, some decent efforts out there, so you might have a look at them instead of starting completely from scratch.

http://sonicfog.com/sonic_affiliate.php
http://www.web-bureau.com/modules/fr...ing-script.php
http://www.webradev.com/postaffiliate/

For comparison, the best commercial system I've found is AssocTrac from Internet Marketing Center.

If you do get a quality open-source affiliate system going, I'd love to hear about it!