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October 30, 2009
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Hits on link

  • October 30, 2009
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I need to count how many times a word document link is clicked on for my web  page. I am thinking about creating something in ColdFusion where each time  someone clicks on the word document I would have a link parameter increase a  counter in the database field. Please  advise if someone has any other suggestions or ideas on how to handle this?

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    glynjackson
    glynjackson
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    October 30, 2009

    Hi,

    If you want to record the total downloads I would recommended building an intermediate page which records the details then starts the download. A baisc example...

    1) Page with link

    2) User clicks link

    3) User is redirected to URL download.cfm?id=1

    4) Download.cfm template then records user request in DB

    5) Download.cfm then using maybe cflocation loads the relevant document for the user.

    The above method is a very easy way to record downloads. download.cfm template would be used to record all downloads with the referring ID alway corresponding to the requested document.


    Glyn.

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