The most direct answer to my question ended up in my spam folder! Because
subsequent emails referred to Austin's reply, I went hunting for it, and there
it was in spam.
I'm into keeping programming as simple as possible except where a more complex
solution is warranted, and this is workable.
Thanks for all your replies!
Susan
----- Original Message ----
From: Austin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 10:34:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] javascript calling php function -- now question on
Ajax
Not to discourage you from using xAjax, which I've seen put to fine use, it
seems to me like you're adding Javascript where PHP would do the job just fine,
all by itself. Assuming that your anchor element is really going to direct the
user off the page, you might do well to implement something like this:
<a href="redirect.php?website=http://www.nyphp.com&link=nyphp";>NY PHP</a>
Then redirect.php would be the contents of your aforementioned code. You'd also
have to call your capture_click function yourself in the PHP code with your two
GET variables as arguments--and be sure to run them through
mysql_real_escape_string.
Plenty of sites use this method to track clicked links off-site, especially
when they monetize their clicks.
Have you considered a simple solution like Google Analytics? I'm no web
stats/SEO guru, but our sales and marketing people like it a lot... and it's
free.
Hope that helps a bit.
Austin
On Feb 18, 2008 11:58 PM, Susan Shemin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
thanks, Mike and Ken
first off, I'm not using a form (so no POST); the link is in an anchor tag. I
could put a form around it, but that seems to me making a simple link complex.
I want to run this php code when the link is clicked
$webpage="";
$link_clicked="";
Function capture_click($webpage,$link_clicked)
{
$entry_date=date("m-d-y-H-i");
$sql = "INSERT INTO click_details " .
"SET webpage='$webpage', link_clicked='$link_clicked',
entry_date='$entry_date'";
$ok = mysql_query($sql);
if ($ok) {
//error checking
}
}
?>
and then the anchor text (or how I guessed would work)
<a href=www.nyphp.org onclick="<?php
capture_click(name_of_my_webpage,link_name); ?>";>info on PHP</a>
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