Question

I have a PHP program for counting user banner clicks. My banner link is something like this:

<a href="<?=$banner_url;?>" onclick="banner_click_count('<?=$banner_id;?>')"><img src=...>

When user clicks on image, it runs banner_click_count() function with $banner_id as parameter.

function banner_click_count($ban_id)
{
$.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: 'banner_click.php',
   data: {banner_id: $ban_id}
   });

}

At banner_click.php, I get the banner_id with $banner_id = $_GET['banner_id']);, search the database based on it. Find the record, then add 1 to banner_count column field. After that, redirect to banner_url.

When I run the program, I get Parse error: parse error, expecting T_VARIABLE' or '$'' on line $.ajax({

Addendum: the error is cleared with all your help, but when I click on the link it redirects to banner_url directly and does not run the AJAX function.

Addendum:I put the alert(“hello”); at the top of ajax function and i got it. So it goes into function

Answer 1

I found the solution. Thanks to all.

function banner_click_count(ban_id)
{
  $.post(
  "banner_click.php",
  {
  banner_id: ban_id
  });
}