Logs of users that clicked on "LINK"

[alessiaass]

Is it possible to keep track of users that have clicked on the link?

<?php

echo "<a href=\"http://site.com/downloads/$_GET[f]\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to start downloading</a>";

echo "Please do NOT close this page until your file starts downloading!";
echo "\n";
$url = "refresh:5; url=http://youarelazytoclick.com";
header($url)
?>

I want to heve logs of user IP, date and $_GET,

For example like this one:

03.13.2015 9:57am  41.36.xxx.xxx  awp.rar
03.13.2015 10:00am  223.207.xxx.xxx  file.rar
03.13.2015 11:44am  202.142.xxx.xxx  example.rar
03.13.2015 12:05pm  82.122.xxx.xxx  winter_v1.rar
03.13.2015 12:07pm  176.26.xxx.xxx  ausscatter.rar
03.13.2015 12:12pm  109.95.xxx.xxx nailgun.rar
03.13.2015 12:33pm  46.63.xxx.xxx  lol.rar
03.13.2015 12:51pm  71.104.xxx.xxx  kingdom.zip
03.13.2015 1:10pm  92.16.xxx.xxx  thunderstorm.rar

Setup:

 

Users will click on site1.com/download/download.zip

 

will be redirected to site2.com/waitfile.php?f=site1.com/download/download.zip (.htaccess) where information will be displayed (I want logs of this page)

 

In waitfile.php will be a CLICK HERE button and users will be redirected to site3.com/download/download.zip where download will start.

 

 

[requinix]

How about your server access logs?

[alessiaass]

How about your server access logs?

I want logs in a file, waitfile.log for example

[requinix]

Server access logs generally are in a file. But whatever.

 

Make waitfile.php write to a log itself. Build a string with the information you want, like

$line = date("m.d.Y h:ia ") . $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] . $filename;

then write to the file with file_put_contents with the append flag. Make sure you don't take the $filename blindly from $_GET - you should make sure it looks valid (like http://site1.com/download/) before writing it to a file. Edited March 13, 2015 by requinix

[alessiaass]

Here is the code I found

define('LOG_FILE','wait.log');

define('LOG_DOWNLOADS',true);




$fname = basename($_GET['f']);




if (!LOG_DOWNLOADS) die();


$f = @fopen(LOG_FILE, 'a+');
if ($f) {
  @fputs($f, date("m.d.Y g:ia")."  ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."  ".$fname."\n");
  @fclose($f);
}

and the output

 

03.13.2015 8:28pm 79.106.xxx.xxx download.zip

Is it possible to log downloads after link has been clicked, or add another colum if CLICK HERE has been clicked, for ex:

03.13.2015 8:28pm 79.106.xxx.xxx download.zip clicked

or

03.13.2015 8:28pm 79.106.xxx.xxx download.zip skipped

[requinix]

Make that link go through a PHP script as well. waitfile.php can handle it too. I figure you can have the same URL as before but with an added value in the query string indicating it's the "click here" link, and you log those requests a little differently.

[alessiaass]

Make that link go through a PHP script as well. waitfile.php can handle it too. I figure you can have the same URL as before but with an added value in the query string indicating it's the "click here" link, and you log those requests a little differently.

And, how do i do that?