i need a script to count link clicks on my website and count report to a flatfile/excel.
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7You'll need server-side code (e.g. Python, PHP, C#) to do this.Matthew Flaschen– Matthew Flaschen2010-06-25 01:23:42 +00:00Commented Jun 25, 2010 at 1:23
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The use of a Javascript framework like jQuery would be wise in this case.
Note that you cannot save data into a file on the client's computer. Instead, you can do an AJAX to the server, and save it via your SSI on the server into database/excel/file whatever data storage there is.
My demo will be using jQuery, jQuery Cookie Plugin and PHP:
countdetect.js
jQuery(function(){
$("a").click(function{
var cookiename = 'linkcounter';
if($.cookie(cookiename) == null){
$.cookie(cookiename, 0);
}
$.cookie(cookiename, $.cookie(cookiename)+1);
});
});
index.php
<?php
session_start();
$counter_file = 'counter';
if(!file_exists($counter_file)){
file_put_contents($counter_file, 0);
}
$counts = (int)file_get_contents($counter_file);
file_put_contents($counter_file, $counts++);
// you can use $counts if you want to display it on the page.
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Link Click Counter Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="countdetect.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.google.com/"></a><br />
<a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"></a><br />
Link clicks: <?php echo $counts; ?>
</body>
</html>
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