Logging Clicks on a web page

chrisj

On a web page, when a Link is “clicked”, to proceed to another page, can that “click” action automatically send an email notification to an email address, to notify that the “click” action has been taken place? Can the script not reveal that an email notification is sent? I don’t know how to say it, the action is hidden from the Clicker? Can the notification of the “click” action be sent simultaneously to more than one email address? Is this easy or difficult to script?

Thank you.

bradgrafelman

Are you talking about every link? Or just one? If it's just one, you could create a script called link.php loking like this:

<?PHP

$to = 'Myself <me@mydomain.com>, Yourself <you@yourdomain.com>';
$from = 'Website <noreply@mydomain.com>';
$subject = 'Link clicked';

$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>User clicked on link!<br>
  IP: ' . getenv('REMOTE_ADDR') . '<br>
  Datetime: ' . date('F j, Y, g:i a') . '</p>
</body>
</html>
';

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' . "\r\n"


mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) or die('Internal server error!');

header('Location: [url]http://mysite.com/path/to/real/file.html[/url]');
?>

EDIT: If it's for more than one link, you could link to the script like 'link.php?id=3' and have a [man]switch/man statement to output the appropriate header() redirect.