Re[2]: [PHP] counting hyperlink clicks in php

Hello Brad, Saturday, February 17, 2007, 4:22:22 PM, you wrote: > Denis L. Menezes wrote: >> Dear friends. >> >> I have a site where I have news headers. I wish to count the clicks on the >> news headers so that I can see how many times each of the the news has been >> viewed. This way I can show the "most viewed" news. >> >> Can one of you please advise hwo this can be done? >> >> Thanks >> Denis >> >> > I think the best way to do this would be to set an onClick (Javascript) > event handler for each of the links, and then use AJAX style stuff to > send the information to PHP on the server side, then PHP can log the > link that was clicked, and keep track of the most clicked links. > -B Another way to do this is to take the user to a page that would identify the clicked link (by ID, for example), store the visits data to a database or a text file and then redirect to the corresponding news. So, such link might look like this: <a href="http://www.news.com/redirect.php?news_id=150">read news</a> Hope this helps. Ed