A very simple script

[piccadely]

I need a very simple script, if anyone can help me.

 

User visits my site, he is shown a link. if that link is clicked more than 10 times, a new link is shown which comes from a flat file, file that contained the first link.

 

User visits my site, fills in his link url and email address and his link is added last in the que of the above file.

 

a way to see/edit/remove the links from the system which get a predefined number of clicks.

 

User should not be able to submit more than one link.

 

Let me know if anyone can help me on this.

[ginerjm]

This is a helper forum, not a coding forum. If it's so simple (and it is) you s/b trying to write some simple code. As it stands, I don't follow what you are trying to say. You talk about seeing a link, clicking on that link, adding a link and saving a link and counting how many times one of those is clicked on. WTH are you doing?

[Muddy_Funster]

your looking for the freelance board

[piccadely]

your looking for the freelance board

 May be, I guess so. My knowledge of PHP is very limited, to modifying an existing code, not create one. I program in ASP, so I understand code, but not the whole PHP and I don't have enough time for the learning curve.

 

If I were to do it in ASP, It would't have taken me more than half an hour for the whole project but PHP is kind of alien to me.

 

Why it is simple?

 

User visits my page (no coding required)

 

User sees my link ("<a href="<? php the first URL in the flat file ?>"> Click here </a>

 

<?php iteration to count the number of clicks on that link and change link to next one on the file, if the number of clicks reached 10, reset counter ?>

 

next, Simple PHP form to capture the user details (this i guess, i can get from google as well) including link submitted by him and push that link to last of the que in the flat file accessed above.

 

Next, <? php echo link and click stats ?>

 

I understood what you said, that this is a help forum. I am just explaining what I need. May be someone can direct me to right resources. If there is already code, I can modify it to my needs.

Edited April 24, 2015 by piccadely

[Muddy_Funster]

I know nothing of asp, so I can sympathise with your position.  However, you should know that PHP is a server side scripting language - it has no interaction with the user or the number of times they click.  you would need a client side language for that, like javascript or actionscript.  PHP can handle the file interaction (loading links from file / appending links to file) and can present an html form to the user - but that form will still need to be sent back to the server for PHP to interact with it again. so you're either talking about submitting the page and it's contents to the server each and every click to have PHP re-process it, or you need to include some of the client side stuff as well.  I know on the surface it seems like it should be a 5 minute job, but assuming it still takes someone the same 30+minutes it takes you, for many of the people on this forum coding is their income, so if you are expecting them to take the time to produce code on your behalf, they will expect remunerated for the effort.

[piccadely]

I know nothing of asp, so I can sympathise with your position.  However, you should know that PHP is a server side scripting language - it has no interaction with the user or the number of times they click.  you would need a client side language for that, like javascript or actionscript.  PHP can handle the file interaction (loading links from file / appending links to file) and can present an html form to the user - but that form will still need to be sent back to the server for PHP to interact with it again. so you're either talking about submitting the page and it's contents to the server each and every click to have PHP re-process it, or you need to include some of the client side stuff as well.  I know on the surface it seems like it should be a 5 minute job, but assuming it still takes someone the same 30+minutes it takes you, for many of the people on this forum coding is their income, so if you are expecting them to take the time to produce code on your behalf, they will expect remunerated for the effort.

 

That is taking me somewhere....

 

Is it possible, if I ask specific questions, somebody can tell me the code. Like register a click in the database(flat file).

 

Does this give any idea:

<?php
/*******************************************************************************
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define('IN_SCRIPT',1);

// Tell browsers not to cache the file output
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");

// Require the settings file
require 'ccount_settings.php';

// Get the link ID; valid chars for the link ID are: 0-9 a-z A-Z - . and _
$id = isset($_REQUEST['id']) ? preg_replace('/[^0-9a-zA-Z_\-\.]/', '', $_REQUEST['id']) : die('Missing link ID');

// Open database file for reading and writing 
if ($fp = @fopen($ccount_settings['db_file'], 'r+'))
{
	// Lock database file from other scripts
	$locked = flock($fp, LOCK_EX);

	// Lock successful?
	if ($locked)
	{
		// Read file
		$data = explode('//', fread($fp, filesize($ccount_settings['db_file'])), 2);

		// Convert contents into an array
		$ccount_database = isset($data[1]) ? unserialize($data[1]) : die('Invalid log file');

		// Is this a valid link?
		if ( ! isset($ccount_database[$id]) )
		{
			die('Link with this ID not found');
		}

		// Increse count by 1
		$ccount_database[$id]['C']++;

		// Is this a unique click or not?
		if ( ! isset($_COOKIE['ccount_unique_'.$id]) )
		{
			$ccount_database[$id]['U']++;
		}

		// Update the database file
		rewind($fp);
		fwrite($fp, "<?php die();//" . serialize($ccount_database));
	}
	else
	{
		// Lock not successful. Better to ignore than to damage the log file
		die('Error locking file, please try again later.');
	}

	// Release file lock and close file handle
	flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
	fclose($fp);
}

// Print the cookie  for counting unique clicks and P3P compact privacy policy
header('P3P: CP="NOI NID"');
setcookie('ccount_unique_'.$id, 1, time() + 3600 * $ccount_settings['unique_hours']);

// Redirect to the link URL
header('Location: ' . str_replace('&', '&', $ccount_database[$id]['L']) );
die();

Can it be used to achieve what I am looking for. I will pay (in some way, if not in cash). I had this kind of script once which changed the URL of page being displayed after it was displayed a number of times. It was, I guess, a redirect script. If even that is possible, I could somehow make it work in my project.

[piccadely]

As i had said earlier, if I knew php, it wouldn't take me much time. Here is a part of code thtat I required, I hope I will get others too.

<?php
$counter = file_get_contents("counter.txt"); 
$counter++; 
file_put_contents("counter.txt", $counter); 
echo $counter;
?>

 But I guess, this needs a little bit of more securing, if anybody can help on that......