Ajax click tracking - The server side script

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This tutorial demonstrates a simple and easy way how to track your visitors clicks using Ajax and PHP.

Tutorial info:

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Step 2 - The server side script

Ajax click tracking

As you could see the onClick event triggers the doWork() javascript function on the clickDemo.html file. The doWork() function calls (visits) the server side script clickTrack.php and pass the source and target information as URL parameters. It means we need to process the $_GET array in the PHP code.

If we get the variables then we can simply write them into a text file and that's it. The code is small and simple:

Code: 
<?php
   $src = isset($_GET['src']) ? $_GET['src'] : "-";
   $dst = isset($_GET['dst']) ? $_GET['dst'] : "-";
 
   $f = fopen('clickReport.txt',"a+");
   fwrite ($f, date('Y-m-d H:i'));
   fwrite ($f, " : " + $src + " : " + $dst + "\r\n");
   fclose($f);
?>
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Now we are ready. There are of course lot of improvement possibilities but it is up to you.

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