Log url link throughs to file

[giraffemedia]

Hello

 

this is my first post and i'm a newbie so please bear with me.

 

I'm putting an advert onto my company website and the client has requested to know the amount of traffic the advert attracts (a click through).

 

How can I incorporate php to log all click throughs to a file on the server for the client?

 

Can I use something like this?  http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-5341.html

 

Thanks in advance.

 

James

[Dragen]

yes a similar kind of thing.

You basically need to store the data in a database.

Have the url in the advert as something like:

http://www.mydomain.com/ads.php?id=123

 

where the id is the id stored in the database corresponding to the advert.

Then on ads.php you need to read the $_GET['id'] info. check that it exists in the database. If so forward onto the advertised site.

 

BEFORE your forward them, you need to check the referrer ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']), i'd suggest ip (to track unique hits) and a timestamp. Then store this in the database.