exit link url variable?

[Robertcode]

Hey all, I'm trying to create a custom stats script for my site, I'm
new to php and I'm just wondering is there a way to tell what link
someone clicked to leave my site?

So if I've got links to section a, section b, section c, google, yahoo,
msn and someone clicks on google I can record that.

Thanks for your time.

[Geoff Berrow]

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Robertcode contained the following:

>Hey all, I'm trying to create a custom stats script for my site, I'm
new to php and I'm just wondering is there a way to tell what link
someone clicked to leave my site?

So if I've got links to section a, section b, section c, google, yahoo,
msn and someone clicks on google I can record that.

I think you'll have to organise your links differently.

Instead of having links in the form of
<a href='http://www.google.com'>Google</a>
you could have:
<a href='links.php?http://www.google.com'>Google</a>

Then in links.php

<?php
$link=$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
//Insert code to record link clicked here in db or file
header("Location: $link");
?>
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[Colin Fine]

Robertcode wrote:

Hey all, I'm trying to create a custom stats script for my site, I'm
new to php and I'm just wondering is there a way to tell what link
someone clicked to leave my site?

So if I've got links to section a, section b, section c, google, yahoo,
msn and someone clicks on google I can record that.

Thanks for your time.

If they are straight links (<a href = 'http://..'>text</a>) there is
absolutely nothing you can do, because any program of yours has finished
before the user ever sees the page containing the link.

However, if you change the links to make them go to a script of yours,
that script can do anything you like.

eg

<a href = 'myscript.php?dest=http%2C%2E%2Ewww.google.com'>go ogle</a>

Then you can make your script myscript.php do something like

<?php
$destination = $_GET['dest'];

# Record the jump to $destination in your database or whatever

header('Location: $destination);

?>

I haven't checked the details of what I've written (and I made up the
ASCII values %2E etc in the URL above) but this is roughly right.

Colin

[.:[ ikciu ]:.]

Hmm Robertcode <ro********@gmail.comwrote:

Thanks for your time.

hi, 2 solutions

1. change your links : <a
href="yourLinkGraber.php?url=http://something......"
2. use onclose option
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[Robertcode]

..:[ ikciu ]:. wrote:

Hmm Robertcode <ro********@gmail.comwrote:

Thanks for your time.

hi, 2 solutions

1. change your links : <a
href="yourLinkGraber.php?url=http://something......"
2. use onclose option
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Ikciu | gg: 718845 | yahoo: ikciu_irsa | www: www.e-irsa.pl

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Could someone give me a link to info on the onclose function? I tried
googling it but couldn't find it.

[.:[ ikciu ]:.]

Hmm Robertcode <ro********@gmail.comwrote:

Could someone give me a link to info on the onclose function? I tried
googling it but couldn't find it.

you are so lazy :)

http://www.google.pl/search?hl=pl&q=...j+w+Google&lr=
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