Some help with, a download counter

[Hughesy1986]

Hi guys!

I am currently making a cms for my portfolio and in the script section I need to record the amount of times that a download has been clicked, how do i go about this? anyone know any good tuts? i dont want someone to do it for me just need pointing in the right direction, also i just want to write it to a txt file.

Many Thanks

Glen

[Hughesy1986]

Anyone got any ideas?

Glen

[tarun]

Try This

[code]$num = file_get_contents("downloadcounter.log");
$num = $num + 1; 
$countfile = fopen("downloadcounter.log", "w"); 
fwrite($countfile, $num);
fclose($countfile);[/code]

Tarun

[Hughesy1986]

Hi,

Yeah thats what i was thinking, is there any php functions which can see if a url is clicked?

Glen

[pocobueno1388]

[code]
<?php

$url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; //or whatever the URL is

if ($url){

//do something

}

?>
[/code]

Is that what you want?

[irken]

Well, yes, there is. And a whole lot of ways to do it aswell.

You could just make a counter script of some sorts.

http://www.yoursite.com/count.php?urlid=4

Then have a small database or text file containing the id's and the url itself. The count script should redirect to the specified URL upon entering an id.

Something like http://php.about.com/od/finishedphp1/qt/track_links.htm

You could.. just count hits when the page you're linking to is loaded, altho that's probably a bad way as the user could just open the page without clicking the link itself hehe. There's alot of ways!