htaccess or redirect to cloak portion of a link?

Question

I have an ad rotate plugin installed to display a few ads on my site but the plugin is coded so that it uses the full directory in the ad count link. I would like to know if there's something easy to put in my htacces to cloak the link. So for example:

http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/ad-rotating-plugin/rotate.php?trackerid=1

needs to look like:

http://mysite.com/rotate.php?trackerid=1 (actually any variation of this is fine, I just don't want that full wp-content/plugins/ directory shown in the link).

I've tried a few plugins but not getting the desired results. To recap, I want the link to SHOW as the bottom link, but when clicked, be taken to the top link, and I need that trackerid=# to stay the generated id, so I only want to cloak part of the link. Is there something I can put in my htaccess to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

What you need to do is set up a custom rewrite. This can change something like http://site.com/rotate/1 to http://site.com/wp-content/plugins/ad-rotating-plugin/rotate.php?trackerid=1

Here is some untested code that might help:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Your Plugin
Plugin URI: 
Description: 
Version: 0.1
Author: 
Author URI: 
*/

// Add rewrite rule and flush on plugin activation
register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'ad_rotate_activate' );
function ad_rotate_activate() {
    ad_rotate_rewrite();
    flush_rewrite_rules();
}

// Flush on plugin deactivation
register_deactivation_hook( __FILE__, 'ad_rotate_deactivate' );
function ad_rotate_deactivate() {
    flush_rewrite_rules();
}

// Create new rewrite rule
add_action( 'init', 'ad_rotate_rewrite' );
function ad_rotate_rewrite() {
    add_rewrite_rule( 'rotate/([^/]+)','/wp-content/plugins/ad-rotating-plugin/rotate.php?trackerid=$matches[1]','top' );
}