Outbound Link tracking
Hi,
I'm trying to find a script(preferably perl) that can track an outbound link and write the data to a MySQL DB.
Can anyone point me to any examples or starting points?
--Maverick
I'm trying to find a script(preferably perl) that can track an outbound link and write the data to a MySQL DB.
Can anyone point me to any examples or starting points?
--Maverick
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OK.
This should do the trick. I assume that
- Your user-id is xxx
- Your password is yyy
- You created a database called xxx_logging
- You went into mysql and created a table in that database with a statement such as:
use xxx_logging;
create table logging (url text);
Use this script to log the URL and then redirect to it (replace xxx and yyy)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $url = $cgi->param('url');
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:xx
my $stmt = "insert into log_table (url) values ('$url');";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($stmt);
$sth->execute() or die "Cannot execute $stmt";
print $cgi->redirect($url);
Now in practice I would create a different user-id for the database than your actual UNIX ID since you don't want to embed that in a script.
This should do the trick. I assume that
- Your user-id is xxx
- Your password is yyy
- You created a database called xxx_logging
- You went into mysql and created a table in that database with a statement such as:
use xxx_logging;
create table logging (url text);
Use this script to log the URL and then redirect to it (replace xxx and yyy)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $url = $cgi->param('url');
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:xx
my $stmt = "insert into log_table (url) values ('$url');";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($stmt);
$sth->execute() or die "Cannot execute $stmt";
print $cgi->redirect($url);
Now in practice I would create a different user-id for the database than your actual UNIX ID since you don't want to embed that in a script.
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My recommendation, which I will post in the Cleanup topic area, is to
split points between jhurst [50 pts] and elsamman [200 pts].
PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS COMMENT AS AN ANSWER!
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A link from my website to another website. An example is http://www.maverick.local/redirect.pl?url=http://www.exampledomain.com
I know how to do a redirect btw. I'm hoping someone has an example for logging the link access to a database.
--Maverick