Hits on link

[Oaklander]

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?

[glynjackson]

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.