Question

I need a way to count how many times a link is being clicked and I was thinking of creating a php script to redirect to and do the counting. Is there a better way to do this and how would i count each time the user visits the link and would it be best to save in the database somewhere…any suggestions

Answer 1

Yes, it must be a PHP script – JavaScript for example won’t work all the time.

So – instead of a link to

http://some.site.com/page2.php

You would link to

http://some.site.com/redirect.php?page2.php

And in the redirect.php you will track, for example, in a database, the values, and in the end throw this header:

header("Location: http://some.site.com/".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]);

To redirect to the path after ?…

// yeah – logs might work… a little bit more work, though and it is also very server specific.