Is there a way to capture links out?

[Anon]

Is there a way to capture what links OUT from your website people are clicking on?

I run a weblog, and I'd be interested in knowing what links I post get the most clicks.

Thanks
Patrick

[khaine]

You could have the links call a script which logs the clicks. i.e.

the web page link would be

<A href="linkprg.php?link=www.google.com">google</A>

this would then call linkprg with the relevant target link. You can then log these and then forward the viewer to the required link.

linkprg.php would be

<?
$fpw=fopen("logfile.txt", "a") or die();
fwrite($fpw, $link."\n");
fclose($fpw);
header("location: "$link);
?>

I dont think this slows anything down and it does log every click.

Mark.

[Anon]

Mark,

Thanks for the idea. I appreciate it.

Pat