Cookie Last Viewed Link

[CosminStan]

Hello guys, i want to make a script that can show me (the user) the 5 visited last links on my website.

Not sure if php is teh correct language to do this but i do not know how coockies work.

[MDCode]

Cookies would only affect the user browsing, simply create a database. When a user views the page record it in the database. Check how many links the user has visited. If it is 5, delete the first record and record the next. Simple

 

Btw, if this is in the third party section, where is the code you're using?

Edited October 25, 2012 by ExtremeGaming

[Christian F.]

Just use an array saved in the session, no need to make it more complicated than that.

[Jessica]

OP wants to know the last 5 links OTHER people clicked on, when they visited HIS site.

[Christian F.]

Hmm... Hard to say, the OP is quite lacking on details. Could be, now that you've made me aware of it, Jessica.

 

If that is indeed the case: Not going to happen. Unless you are Facebook or Google, and can convince every web developer to put your tracking code on their site.

[Jessica]

Christian, are you serious? You actually can't think of a way in PHP to track what links are clicked on your own website? *eyeroll* I do this on my sites, my Wordpress blog does it for me on my blog, etc etc.

 

OP: Please come back and clarify. 

[Christian F.]

Ah, seems I misread you.

Somehow I managed to read "OTHER sites", not "OTHER people". >< Sorry about that.

 

That said the context of your first post is a bit confusing, as the two previous posts give a (rough) outline of how to track the links the users click on while on his site. Think you could be so kind as to explain it a bit further?

[Jessica]

the two previous posts give a (rough) outline of how to track the links the users click on while on his site. Think you could be so kind as to explain it a bit further?

 

Really? No, only one of them does.

 

Cookies would only affect the user browsing, simply create a database. When a user views the page record it in the database. Check how many links the user has visited. If it is 5, delete the first record and record the next. Simple

 

This, except don't delete anything, just store it. We also don't know if the OP wants to record outgoing links as well which would require more work.

 

Just use an array saved in the session, no need to make it more complicated than that.

 

How do you think that would do what I'm describing? It doesn't...

[Christian F.]

Could probably have explained it in more detail, but this is what I was thinking of:

<?php 

// Quick example, without any error checking.
$_SESSION['links'] = array (
5 => $_SESSION['links'][4],
4 => $_SESSION['links'][3],
3 => $_SESSION['links'][2],
2 => $_SESSION['links'][1],
1 => $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],
);

Upon re-reading the OP, I think I might have misunderstood him as well. Guess I was more tired than I thought last night. Again, sorry about that.

[CosminStan]

Thanks guys, as i said i do not know anything about cookies or sessions, so i can't explain in more details ) soryy

But thanks @Christian F for this quick intro, ho to solve this problem.

 

I don't need any out goid links, just the ones that the user click on my website to be shown in a recent activity without the user to be logged in.

Edited October 27, 2012 by CosminStan

[MDCode]

Without a user being logged in makes it much more difficult and practically impossible unless you record all of their information, which, if you record ip those using the same isp could be mistaken as others.