Updating hits field after link clicked

[Anon]

I've created a link list database and want to count the hits each link has become. I know I need to send the clicked site id back to the server/script in order to update the the field 'hits' but how do I then command the user's browser to go to the link he clicked? Which PHP/HTML command could I use?

[Anon]

Send the user a location header using the header function to redirect the user like this:
header("Location: http://www.php.net");

Check out the documents for header:
http://www.php.net/manual/function.header.php