Quick code question...

[Sam Rusch]

Well, I am making a advetising program, and when the people either click the text link, or the image, I want that <a href="...">...</a> code to add clicks into a txt file. Like say the link already has 14 clicks, and someone clicks the text link, than it would display it has 15 clicks, and so on and so on...

Can someone please help me on this Thanks!

[enygmadae]

you'd want the link to point to a PHP script like:

<a href="http://www.test.com/links.php?id=1&url=http://www.testtwo.com">test</a>

then fopen the file with that ID number, update the contents, and forward them out to wherever the url= setting is...

[Sam Rusch]

I think that I understand that. I will just have to work on that I guess. I will probably ask some more questions about it though later on...

[SPTony]

Yes I would do it like eny said.

For the clicks i would have it show in the link like google.com?id=15

and have the clicks go into a database or if you want text file that you have. If someone types in google.com?id=1000 it wil automatically know that the next one is 16 so it redirects it to google.com?id=16.

Understand?

[Sam Rusch]

So, let me ask something more about this...

Say I have a text file, and I have on the text file "12" already in there. Alright, now that I have the on there, say I have a link to google.com on my page, and I would like it to link to google.com. What would I make the link?

I am really not understanding this at all...

[Ben]

You would need to make the link, a link to your script, with the URL that you want to go to, a parameter, so it knows where to go.

Example of how this would work:

1. Make a link like say: <a href='link.php?url=http://www.google.com'>Google</a>
2. In link.php, you can run the script to increment the counter. Then, at the end, you can use a redirect, to send the people to Google.

So whats actually happening is that your not linking to Google, but to the script, and then the script sends them to Google. The url paramter can be any URL. Every link you want to be counted then, you would link to link.php?url=<URL Here>. Get it?

[Sam Rusch]

Alright, that explains a lot! But, just one more question...

You said to use link.php as the script to increment the counter. But, would that be the link to the actual txt file, or would that be a link to the file that actaully does the adding to the text file? Like, the PHP file that does the adding to the txt file.

[bjcffnet]

The php does the adding to the text file. link.php should be the PHP script.

[Sam Rusch]

Alright, thanks! I will play with this now to make my cool script! Thanks again guys!

[Sam Rusch]

Alright, well, I use this code and the page that I want to go to is not loading. Here is the link that I have in the code:
<a href="index.php?url=http://macsnpods.com" target="_blank">

All it does is open up a new window (like I want it to) but it does not go to http://macsnpods.com (like it should)