ajax to record click

Hello,

I am trying to record every click into a database, i am getting no errors, but nothing is recorded either.

here is my jquery

<a href='/downloadocs/newdoc.txt_2017-11-01-42.zip' name='file8'>Full Report</a>

<script type="text/JavaScript">
					$(document).ready(function(){
						$("[name=file8]").click(function(){
						$("[name=store]").load("/record.php?thefile=8");

						});
					});
			</script>

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my record.php

$thefile = $_GET['thefile'];

$thequerysql ="
							INSERT INTO  tracking 
							(documents_doc) 
							VALUES (".$thefile.")";
					 
					 		if (!mysqli_query($link, $thequerysql))
							{
							   $msg = ("Error description: " . mysqli_error($link));
							   echo $msg; 
							   exit;
							}

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