How to count clicks on a hyperlink?

[Andreas2003]

Hi there,

 

I have a question.

I have placed a hyperlink to a friends' webpage. But I didn't use the banner manager.

But now, I want to have the click statistics from that hyperlink updated in the banner statistic history.

 

Therefore I have to add some code to the hyperlink.

I saw that there is a function in the banner.php called "tep_update_display_count" and "tep_update_banner_click_count".

 

The code for the hyperlink is very simple right now:

<td><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.domain.com"></td>

 

Can someone please guide me a little bit, how the code has to be for counting the displays and the counts, like a real banner?

 

I found the activation of the banner in the application_top.php, but that leads me no further.

I know, that I have to set up that "virtual" banner in the database manually, in order to simulate a banner for the hyperlink and to have a banner-id, where the clicks can be added to.

 

Is that possible or am I on the wrong way?

 

 

Thank you very much in advance,

Regards

Andreas

[germ]

Look at the code in /includes/functions/banner.php

 

	  $banner_string = '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_REDIRECT, 'action=banner&goto=' . $banner['banners_id']) . '" target="_blank">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $banner['banners_image'], $banner['banners_title']) . '</a>';

Then in redirect.php

 

  switch ($HTTP_GET_VARS['action']) {
case 'banner':
  $banner_query = tep_db_query("select banners_url from " . TABLE_BANNERS . " where banners_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['goto'] . "'");
  if (tep_db_num_rows($banner_query)) {
	$banner = tep_db_fetch_array($banner_query);
	tep_update_banner_click_count($HTTP_GET_VARS['goto']);

	tep_redirect($banner['banners_url']);
  }
  break;

That's how osCommerce does it.

[Andreas2003]

So, first of all, thank you for your answer.

The code still confuses me.

I have set up a new banner with banner_id = 2 via admin.

The banner is being displayed, so its activated correctly.

 

Now I want to count clicks additionally on a specific hyperlink, so when someone clicks on that hyperlink, the same banner-id will get the click in addition to the normal banner display.

 

The application_top checks if a banner is activated and give all banner-data to the function, is that right ?

	require(DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS . 'banner.php');
tep_activate_banners();
tep_expire_banners();

 

And the footer code is for displaying activated banners, right?

<?php
 if ($banner = tep_banner_exists('dynamic', '468x50')) {
?>
<br>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
<td align="center"><?php
 echo tep_display_banner('static', $banner);
 ?></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<?php
 }
?>

 

Where is the function called in order to update the shown banners?

The update function for clicks will get called when a banner is clicked, right?

 

For the $banner_string:

can I somehow manipulate the banner_string to call my banner-id = 2 as mentioned in my example above?

 

Very confusing,

thanks for any help,

regards

Andreas