I am looking for a script that will send an email when a link is clicked.

Basically I have a page where there is a link to another website, and when some one clicks on that link and goes to that site, I need a script that will send an email saying that some one has clicked on the link.

I am not sure if this can be done with php or if it has to be done with java.

I am hoping some one will know and could recommend something.

thank you.

Just to let you know, Java and JavaScript are two different languages, although it's easy to get confused because of the similar names.

To answer your question, you would probably have to use both JavaScript and PHP to do what you want. JavaScript would detect if the link has been clicked and PHP would send the email. However, you might want to reconsider whether or not this is something you really want to do. Do you really want an email EVERY time someone clicks on a link? Why not just store the number of clicks in a database or in a text file instead of sending an email?

Ah, yes you are right, and I knew that, but I guess it just slipped out.

The reason I need for this to work this way is because I am building a directory site and I have companies that pay to be listed. Therefore this will be very good for business if I can show to my paying clients that people are visiting their links.

I came across a site that does this, and looking at the source I found the code below. Perhaps this could lend an idea...

<tr valign="top"><td width="19%"><b><font size="2"
face="Arial">Website:</font></b></td><td width="81%">
<font size="2"face="Arial">
<Ahref="javascript:document.forms[0].submit();"
onMouseOver="window.status='Visit our Website';return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;"
target="_top"><big><b>www.sitename.com</b></big></a>
</font></td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
<br><br>

</script>

Does this tell you anything?

You still may want to reconsider, especially if it is clients that are getting the emails. I know that if I signed up for a paid directory, I wouldn't want a new email everytime someone clicked on the link. What I would like instead is to be able to either see right next to the link how many times it's been clicked or, barring that, to be able to log in and see how many times it's been clicked. But an email would quickly cause you to lose clients, in my opinion. For an example of a site like this, check out http://www.hotscripts.com.

Hi,

You can do the tracking entirely in php at the backend, which will cloak the link as well. What I do is I assigned a unique id and counter to each link, and the counter will increase on each click.
You can find a demo here: http://www.netraits.com/features/cloak-url

I agree with VirtuosiMedia that it is not a good idea to send your clients an email on every clicks, will surely piss them off.
Instead, I gave my clients access to a page that shows them the report.

I suppose you both may be right.

What about an email that would go out once a week and tell the members how many views they have received that week. However it would only go out if they have received at least 1 view.

I definitely want to send out emails. Even if it is once a week or less. It is important for me to keep in the forefront of the clients minds. If they never get a reminder then they may not frequent the site and then loose faith as to if it is worth their money.

But even with the idea above, it is not like they will get tons of emails every day. It is a very specific industry. It is only wedding related vendors, so they will not get overloaded with emails. This other site I mentioned that uses this does very well, and maybe the solution would just be to have an option for the members to choose not to receive the emails.

Why not put a few links in the email that allows the user to select email frequency?

Yes, having that as part of the script would be great. I could just have the option under their account page where they can choose as well.

But before I start adding features I need to locate this script. I am pretty sure it is out there, but where? I am not even sure how to search for a script like this.

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...st=0&p=251628&

AJAX method with the server side code in ASP ( post #6 )

You can use exactly the same principle with PHP instead