Hi, I want to create a file (out.php???) which measures and keeps stats on the sites we link OUT to, including affiliates... i've got a few ideas how to do this, so that's not the problem... the problem is that a lot of the content on the site is contributed through writers, not programmers, and since we know and trust these contributors, we're comfortable with them being allowed to add links in the text, etc etc, and don't strip those tags.
however, it's one thing to teach a whole heap of writers to link in this way: <A HREF="http://somewhere"; TARGET="_new">click</a> but it's a lot harder (or perhaps, more prone to errors, etc) to ask them to do something like: <A HREF="out.php?url=http://somewhere.com";>click</a> ... and then if it's wise to take the special characters out, replacing them with ASCI (eg %20), then it's virtualy impossible. THEN I thought about the fact that i'll be looking to add URL based sessiosn to the site soon, which will require all links to carry a session id... again, too much to ask of them, and too unreliable. So, one solution would be to use regular expressions to analyse text for links, determin if they are internal or external, check for target="_new", encode sessions, etc etc. Big job for me, maybe not for some of the regexp pros :) OR, another option would be to establish a custom tag <LINK> (for internal) and <ELINK> for external pages eg <ELINK "http://somewhere.com";>click</a>, and let PHP convert it to a suitable link, with sessions, TARGET="_new", etc etc... and better still, take that link, and pipe it through something like out.php as discussed above, without anyone having to worry about fussy syntax, sessions, etc. Has anyone tried anything like this? has anyone got code snippets, or perhaps the ability to write the reg exps? Many thanks, Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
