Link clicking

[NZ_Kiwis]

I want to track how often links are clicked, where they're clicking on at my site etc, maybe the user IP the date/time etc.

I want going to make all links go to a page redirect.php and pass in a a link ID. So redirect.php?ID=3354

3354 would be a datebase ID for phpbuilder.com. I would then insert timestamp, IP, refer URL etc into a database then send the user to the end URL.

Sounds okay but i'll end up with thounds of robot entries. How can I eliminate them or how else can I do this?

[dalecosp]

Well, if you don't really need to hold the data yourself, something like Google Analytics might help (you can push events to them and they'll show up in their reporting interface.

Apart from that, it's possible to detect most bots. There are some libraries out there ... I'll attach one here in a moment or two.

[dalecosp]

Here's a method from a Tracker class I wrote.

robots_php_detect.txt

[sneakyimp]

CodeIgniter (a php framework) offers an is_robot function. Learning and implementing CodeIgniter is a non-trivial task, but it's my preferred framework these days.

[SerenityPantone]

Thanks for this!