detecting download

langals

Hi there

I am building a website which allows users to download files. I will be displaying an href link whereby the user can right click and select 'save as'. Now, I wanted to be able to count how many times each file has been downloaded. How do I do this and how do I know if the file has been downloaded successfully?

Many thanks

langals

MeShane

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luckybob

You can track the number of times the link has been accessed.

...
printf ("<a href=\"%s?id=%s&download=yes\">Download my program!!</a>", $url, $id);
...

You can have the page link to itself or another page. Than all you have to do is set up an update function.

...
if($download) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT count FROM db WHERE id=$id");
$count = sql_fetch_row($result, $db);
$count = $count + 1;
$sql = "db SET count='$count' WHERE id=$id";
}
...

This should count the number of times the link is clicked.

Luckybob

langals

Thanks for your help luckybob

I am being fussy now, but I don't want the page to be refreshed. I want the user to be able to right click on the link, select 'save as' and download the file.

I know that the number of downloads can be counted, as I have had a look at websites which have mp3 download charts and they have normal anchors (samp3.com is one example).