Counting Clicks...

Anon

I have an href that activates an if statement. How can I count how many times they have clicked it???

I tried a 'for loop' but in this situation it will not work. Perhaps a hidden field...?

warmwind

Kinda confused .. do you mean that you have an <a href="..url"> or do you mean that there's an if statement in the script at the url they are clicking to?

Perhaps you can give us a bit more of an idea of what the if statement does..

Anon

Yeah, you could give some more info about what are you trying to do... But, if you are lookin for a hit counter, then this could help you...

This is MySQL based, but it should not be too hard to make it file based. Ok, first of all, I did this because PHP was not installed on the server where I had to make a counter, so I had to somehow first make the link to go on our webserver and run the script and then redirect it back to our clients server.

So I made a href referring to our website like this: <a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/count.php?url=www.otherwebsite.com/page.htm">

<?php

Add one hit to db and redirect it to right page

$db = mysql_connect("localhost","user","passwd");
mysql_select_db("db", $db);

if ($url=="www.otherwebsite.com/page.htm")
{

mysql_query("UPDATE hitcounter SET hit=hit+1 WHERE id=1");
mysql_close($db);
}

Header("Location:http://$url");
?>

Hope that helps...

Anon

Damn, i got taken away last night, I feel real bad. yeah, I think this will help me allot. thank you so much guys!