RE: [PHP] count link clicks
| From: | vic | Date: | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:18:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] count link clicks | ||
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I have no database, this has to be done in PHP
- Vic
-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@php.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:05 PM
To: vic
Cc: victor@argilent.com; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] count link clicks
> Really? That sounds more complicated than I think I need it to be,
can't
> I use something like:
>
> '<a href="'.$PHP_SELF.'?add_form='.$value.'">'
>
> and somehow (this is what I need to know) get $value to increase in
> value as the user clicks on the link again and again...
Nope, you would be fighting race conditions forever with an approach
like
that. You need an atomic way to increment a counter. The best way to
do
that is to use the builtin atomicity of a database engine.
-Rasmus
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