Question

I need to track every time a user clicks on a dynamic button. Also I need to know what product is he clicking. Now I have this button:

<div class="buy">
    <a target="_blank" href="<?php echo $this->product['from']; ?>">
        <img src="http://example.com/data/images/buy.jpg" alt="buy">
    </a>
</div>

Href sends the user to another site to buy the product. How can i track this on PHP?

Answer 1

If the href is linking to another page that is not on your own server, you can go with an ajax-solution, like @coder1984 proposed, or you can create a proxy php script. That means:

• the user clicks the link to the proxy, sending in the product URL
  • like: href="myproxy.php?url=<?php echo $this->product['from']; ?>"
• the proxy gets the URL, checks it and updates a database, the session, a text file
• afterwards it redirects the user to the actual URL