Links Hits PHP script - HTML Forums

videotoys · 01-24-2010, 05:27 AM

I have been using this PHP script to send emails to me when people click on our sponsors links (Pop Up) and it was working fine for about 2 years or so now until I just transfered our web site to godaddy hosting. Is there a probably with the script or is it a setting I need to change on the host? thanks for any help

Here is the script:

HTML Code:

http://www.boulderchannel1.com/linkhits.php?address=http://www.newsite.com

Code:

<?php

// The following variables hold the obvious information.
$message = 'This email has been sent from Boulder Channel 1, to inform you that the '. $address . ' link has been clicked.';
$sendTo = "links@boulderchannel1.com";
$subject = "Boulder Channel 1, $address has been clicked!";
$from = "BoulderChannel1";

// This function actually sends the mail.
@mail($sendTo, $subject, $message,"From: $from\n");

// This function redirects the page to the one that the link was originally supposed to link to.
header("Location: $address");

?>

videotoys · 01-24-2010, 03:05 PM

Sorry HTML code is actually like this:

HTML Code:

<a href="linkhits.php?address=http://www.website.com" target="_blank">

If there's a better way to do this I'd love to know, I have been searching high and low to no avail. All I find is Google Analytics on how to track outbound links to a site, but I want those outbound link clicks to send me an email before going to the link.

I've tried changing the access rights as well. thinking that might work... Nothing.

Any other link tracking through emails scripts without using google analytics would be good help too. I found a few but not sure if they do quite what I want to.

Explination:

1. Someone clicks a link to an external site
2. the script sends me an email showing me a link has been clicked
3. then sends the user to that site, all in a new window.

Does this sound possible?

tnowalk · 01-24-2010, 03:59 PM

Just a quick thing before I go, on your old server you probably had global variables on, and when you switched to go daddy it with an upgraded version of PHP, global variables is turned off. I see that in your script you call to $address but not $_GET['address'] which is what makes me think that. You can add this to the top: $address = $_GET['address'] and that should take care of your problem temporarily. When I get home I can see if i can find a good link tracker and post back

Best Regards,
Trevor

videotoys · 01-24-2010, 04:23 PM

SWEET! I Think that actually fixed my problem completly.

Thanks so much I spent all day trying to find a tracker that did what this script was doing but they all needed to install databases or were only for text links.

Thanks again, LOTS! Made my day!

tnowalk · 01-24-2010, 05:47 PM

You are most welcome