Processing a page without changing URL

Anon

Hi,

I want to run a script and pass it variables but have nothing returned from the script, and let my page continue.

eg. to track hits to a website, i want each page to run something like:
loghit.php?ip=1.1.1.1&os=win98
but then still display the current page.

(the reason for this is because i want all webstats on a central server database, but my hosting provider does not allow mysql connections from external hosts, so instead i just want to run a script on that central server to log the hits)

Jamie

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oldest trick in the book, hide your script behind an img tag and have it return a one-pixel gif image.

<img src=http://some.host/hits.php>
note that depending the speed of your 'hits' server, this can slow down the loading of your page quite a bit.

Anon

But then if the user was to "view source" on my webpage they could see all the variables i passed to the script coz i'd have to put:

right? is there another way to do this?

[deleted]

Nope.

billzeller

Hi,

Why couldn't you just do something like this?

<?
file('http://some.host/hits.php?ip=1.2.3.4&os=win98');
?>

Best Regards,
Bill Zeller

Anon

Ahh thats works and its ALOT quicker, but one thing.. if the file() function returns an error it displays it on the webpage (eg if the file doesnt exist), how can i stop it from doing that? i tried using $data = @file($url); but it didnt process the file() at all.

Any ideas?

Anon

Actually, it is working with the @file()..

Thanks!