limit amount of clicks on a link

[lespada]

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if there is a PHP code to limit the amount of hits on a web link.

I have a PDF file that can only be viewed 3000 times as the limit. When the link amount reaches 3000, then I need to redirect/or display that the limit amount has been reached.

Can anyone help? Thanks!

Luis

[paulnaj]

Hi Luis,

There are many ways to do this ... here's one.

Keep a text file on your site called hits.txt, that just stores a the number of hits so far.

The link could not go direct to the actual pdf but a php script that updates the hits.txt and then re-directs straight to the pdf using the header() function. The 'update' script could check the current value first, and re-direct somewhere else if the max is reached.

Paul.