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  • #587789
    Anonymous
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    Hi everyone,

    I’d like to put a click tracking tool on both of my sites. I did some research, and right now I’m leaning toward Ccount. Here is the description from hotscripts.com:

    Ccount is a PHP click counter. With its help you can count clicks on any link on your website. A great tool if you want to know how many times a link has been clicked, a file downloaded and similar. You can also hide your affiliate links with PHP click counter. As long as it’s a link – Ccount can count clicks on it! Ccount uses flat-text database so no SQL databases are necessary. I have also developed an admin panel, where you can view link statistics: how many times a link has been clicked (both numerical and graphical display of stats), link with most clicks and average clicks per link. You can also easily add, reset or remove links in the admin panel.

    Does anyone here have experience with Ccount? How well does it work, and how easy is it to use?

    What about other click tracking programs… are there others that you would recommend over Ccount? I’m looking for something free and somewhat easy to implement. I know some of these programs use a MySQL database. I don’t know much about MySQL at this point, but if it’s relatively easy to learn and use, I may be open to using a tracking program that utilizes MySQL. Also, I don’t want to use anything that will interfere with the spidering process.

    Recommendations? Any help you guys can provide would be very much appreciated!

    #661715
    Anonymous
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    I don’t have any experience with these programs since I use Content Management Systems and these scripts have this functionality built-in.

    I think you should try the program since it is very easy to install and it will not hurt your site nor interfer with search engines for sure.

    MySQL programs are easy too. You do not have to know anything special about SQL. You only need to create a database and user, the program handles the rest. The big difference here is the source for the data storing. CCounter stores the data on a text file and the others on a database.

    The only headache you’ll have is to configure all the links you want to track. Don’t know how much you have…

    #661726
    Anonymous
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    I’m using similar click trackers based on PHP and flat-files. I like working with them, since they are very light (fast) and easy to adjust.

    #661761
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thanks for the input, guys. This weekend I think I’ll try out the Ccount tracker. Ultimately I would like to learn how to take advantage of MySQL, but not right now.

    #693485
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Ccount seems to return a 302 redirect if you use a server header checker, which means it will interfere with the spidering process. Need something that returns a 301.

    #693494
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Engineer, cowboy,

    I’m using Ccount myself over at my main domain xxxhttp://www.wager2win.co.uk (not all URL’s) it works like a charm. Good thing about is it doesn’t require a db it’s all flat files ;)

    I had it set-up in under 5min (though you need to know a little php to get it going).

    If you need some assistance send me a PM and I’ll help you out!

    Cheers

    Edit – as far as spidering issues I haven’t experienced any.

    #693499
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    You can use Google Analytics to track clicks. http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27246&hl=en

    #693507
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Wow… blast from the past. :D

    A little update — I ended up never using Ccount. Instead, I taught myself how to use PHP and MySQL, and I built my own tracking system. Learning PHP and MySQL is by far the best thing I ever did for myself.

    #693509
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I’m a newbie to PHP and MYSQL …
    And have written a little bit now … only very simple stuff

    Care to share the basic code and/or database design?
    I’m sure you’ve already learnt and avoid some baisc pitfalls that I’d fall into.
    :tongue:

    #693519
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    Engineer wrote:
    Wow… blast from the past. :D

    lol…mental note to self check post date :banger:

    php is cool programming skill to know, unless there is nothing else around to do what I need I normally just use free GPL scripts. Besides most you can add & change code to anyways ;)

    Cheers

    #693541
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    TheGooner wrote:
    I’m a newbie to PHP and MYSQL …
    And have written a little bit now … only very simple stuff

    Care to share the basic code and/or database design?
    I’m sure you’ve already learnt and avoid some baisc pitfalls that I’d fall into.
    :tongue:1. Most importantly, keep it as simple as possible.

    2. Use the appropriate data types in your MySQL database — i.e. if you are storing numbers, use number fields; if you’re storing text, use text, etc.

    3. Use only as much space as you need for each row, but be careful not to make the length of the field too short. i.e. if you set it to be only 8 characters long, and if you try to insert something larger than that, it will cut off the information after the 8th character.

    4. When working with PHP code — if you use if/else statements, make sure to close the statements with a } symbol. I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to debug a script only to find that I forgot to close an if statement with a }.

    5. If you are going to allow your visitors to put data in a form and then insert the data into your database, you definitely need to learn about “validation.” If you don’t validate the information someone enters into your form, they can potentially submit data that will corrupt the database. Example — they could enter a (apostrophe) into one of the fields. Seems harmless, but it could really screw things up. Or they could put =”; into a form field, or perhaps a line of php script. You have to make sure that the visitor can only send alphanumeric characters; or you have to use some php code to convert any non-alphanumeric characters into HTML entities before it hits the database.

    Hope that helps a bit…. Obviously there is much more to learn; I suggest reading php.net and/or Kevin Yank’s tutorial about how to build your own database driven website.

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