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dpf Posts: 7126 Joined: 11/12/2003 From: India-napolis Status: offline	measuring clicks - 11/12/2005 10:20:08 A client asked if there is a way to count the number of times a particular link ON her page is clicked? I didnt know the answer. _____________________________ Dan


Taz Posts: 2884 Joined: 7/6/2004 From: U.K (Formerly outer space.) Status: online	RE: measuring clicks - 11/12/2005 10:58:57 quote: Count link clicks: LiveCounter can also be used to record the number of times a particular link (a file download link for example) is clicked. http://www.chami.com/counter/classic/ _____________________________ Smiley T-Shirts and other Geeky fun stuff, Smileys and phpbb Smiley paks. (in reply to dpf)


Kitka Posts: 2520 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/12/2005 12:11:38 I use the free PHP script from here: http://www.phpjunkyard.com/php-click-counter.php It is really simple to set up and use. _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (in reply to dpf)


Nicole Posts: 2845 Joined: 9/15/2004 From: Nambucca / Kempsey, Australia Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/12/2005 15:28:48 Won't their webstats show how many times a particular page is viewed? _____________________________ (in reply to Kitka)


Kitka Posts: 2520 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/12/2005 17:48:40 Maybe I thoroughly misunderstood, but I thought Dan meant exit click tracking. When someone clicks on link that goes from a page in your site to someone else's site. None of the usual stats packages I have seen will do that. _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (in reply to Nicole)


dpf Posts: 7126 Joined: 11/12/2003 From: India-napolis Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/12/2005 18:21:45 quote: but I thought Dan meant exit click tracking. yes _____________________________ Dan (in reply to Kitka)


bobt Posts: 65 Joined: 9/5/2005 Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/13/2005 11:02:51 Dan, Why don't you send the link to a blank page called something like countclick.htm or whatever and then do a response.redirect on that blank page to the real destination of the link. You can then count the hits on the blank page via the stats package. Visitors won't even see the blank page. Bob (in reply to dpf)


dpf Posts: 7126 Joined: 11/12/2003 From: India-napolis Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/13/2005 11:05:36 excellent idea! _____________________________ Dan (in reply to bobt)


Kitka Posts: 2520 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/13/2005 16:52:51 Does this mean that if you have 100 links in a site you'd need 100 blank pages to redirect from? _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (in reply to bobt)


dpf Posts: 7126 Joined: 11/12/2003 From: India-napolis Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/13/2005 17:20:24 yes _____________________________ Dan (in reply to Kitka)


womble Posts: 5702 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/13/2005 17:50:13 as always, Dan's a man of few words _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to dpf)


dpf Posts: 7126 Joined: 11/12/2003 From: India-napolis Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/14/2005 8:09:44 right.. _____________________________ Dan (in reply to womble)


womble Posts: 5702 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/14/2005 17:10:00 _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to dpf)


yogaboy Posts: 377 Joined: 5/22/2004 Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/15/2005 17:20:35 You could add a querystring to the link with a code or name of the link, and on the "blank" page you could have a database connection that records the querystring and moves a counter field up by one. That way you only need one blank page. (in reply to womble)


womble Posts: 5702 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/15/2005 17:24:45 I'd been wondering if that'd work too... _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to yogaboy)


bobby Posts: 11394 Joined: 8/15/1969 From: Seattle WA USA Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/15/2005 17:36:17 you could even use ASP and the same method above to write the values to a .txt document instead of a database. Or a seperate .txt file for each page you're tracking, that would be even easier. more pages, but easier to code <edit> You know... thinking about it... if your server will let you use File System Object in ASP you could probably change the value on each .htm page. Just open and replace a string with a new number... That could get messy though... _____________________________ If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? (in reply to womble)


Kitka Posts: 2520 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/15/2005 17:51:35 quote: you could even use ASP and the same method above to write the values to a .txt document instead of a database. That is pretty much how the PHP script I mentioned above works - and very neatly too. Why reinvent the wheel? _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (in reply to bobby)


yogaboy Posts: 377 Joined: 5/22/2004 Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/16/2005 5:47:23 quote: Why reinvent the wheel? Because hopefully the inventors civilization will become subsumed by my own, and their name will be erased from all records - and then I can take the credit! (in reply to Kitka)


womble Posts: 5702 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: measuring clicks - 11/16/2005 17:07:21 quote: ORIGINAL: yogaboy quote: Why reinvent the wheel? Because hopefully the inventors civilization will become subsumed by my own, and their name will be erased from all records - and then I can take the credit! _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to yogaboy)