tracking and redirect

brennro · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-09, 02:22 PM

I'm kinda a newbie here but I am looking for a script or atleast some advice on how to accomplish the following:

When someone visits a certain URL I would like to keep track of the number of the visit and if it falls on the nth time then they get redirected.

example: Every 5th user to the URL gets redirected to another page.

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum section.

-brennro

ruteckycs · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-09, 02:31 PM

You could use a simple PHP script, here is a very simple one that would work.

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$myFile = "count.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$The_Count = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
fclose($fh);

If ($The_Count!="5"){
                                            $The_Count=$The_Count+1;
                                            $myFile = "count.txt";
                                            $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
                                            fwrite($fh, $The_Count);
                                           fclose($fh);
}else{
$The_Count=0;
$myFile = "count.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $The_Count);
fclose($fh);
header("Location: lpagehere.html");
}
?>

Sorry dont know how to highlight the PHP code on this forum.