Opening new url from php after counting

ealderton

Hi,

I have a database of self-catering cottages which give a list and then on clicking the cottage show the details.

Some of these clicks take people off to web sites over which I have not got control.

I want to count how many clicks each cottage gets, and then do the redirect to the other url.

I.e.

Click on cottage A
Add one to the counter (which would be in a mysql database)
Show cottage A website

Some of these web sites are not under my control, so I have to do the counting before we leave the first page.

The current web site can be seen on

http://www.stayindependently.com

I'm not sure how to redirect to the next site.

Can anyone help me?

Regards

Elizabeth

dalecosp

You need a page named something like "redir.php".

Pass the off-site name in the query string, then GET it on redir.php.

Do your db connect, insert into the correct table/row, and if successful, call a location [man]header/man with the location being the query string variable...

😉

barand

Arrange it so that clicking on a cottage passes you to

counter.php?cottageid=xx

in counter.php,
GET cottageid
Update the count for cottage xx then

header("location: url_of_cottage_site");

hth

ealderton

Umm - Well, my main problem is the redirect I get an error:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/eja/stayindependently_html/track.php3:6)

when I use the code:

<html>

<?php
header("Location: http://www.stayindependently.com/scbleantis");

</html>

That's the only code on the page at the moment.

I must be doing something wrong? Help!!!

barand

Send headers before <html>. In fact, you don't need any html in the redirecting script, just get data, update and send header.