redirecting alternative visitors to a different page

[Code junkie]

Hi everyone,

I've got my marketing hat on today and I would like to try to split test two different webpages to test how well received the content is on two different pages - page1.htm & page2.htm

I was thinking that the best way to do this would be to have a javascript redirect which switches each time a user clicks the link to get to the page I am testing.

The way I was thinking of doing it was through using a hidden counter, if the counter was even visitors would be sent to page1.htm if it was odd they would go to page2.htm

Then after a week I could look at which one was read for the ongest on average and decide that that was the content that was best.

Anyone any ideas how this can be done. I've started working on this but I'm getting a bit stuck.....

[rangana]

Try this:

<?php
$filename = 'base.txt'; // Filename

$fh = fopen($filename,'r');
$inc = fread($fh, filesize($filename)) + 1;
fclose($fh);

$fh = fopen($filename,'w');
fwrite($fh,$inc);
fclose($fh);

echo $inc%2===0?'<a href="page1.htm">ODD</a>':'<a href="page2.htm">EVEN</a>';
?>


Create base.txt on the same folder as to where you'll save this script and set an initial contents of "0".

Hope that helps.