Comments on: tracking external links with AJAX

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:33:45 +0000

Surekha, I’m not familiar with weblogic. Is the portlet identifiable from the URL? ie, if it’s http://blah.blah/testme then is “testme” the name of the portlet? If not, then I think you’d need to find some way of injecting the name into the document (maybe in the Head section as a Meta tag) and that’s beyond the scope of this small script.

By: Surekha

Surekha — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:48:41 +0000

I am trying to use this link tracker for my weblogic portal application to track external links. It is really an awesome code to track the external links. I have one yet problem to solve. I need to identify on which portlet this external link was clicked. I tried inspecting the DOM object to retrieve the portlet name but not successful so far. Any ideas to solve this?

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:46:53 +0000

Mark, I think the reason I chose a synchronous call was that, as this was the final act of a closing page, I wanted to make sure the call was actually made, instead of being nullified as the rest of the page was removed. Call it a “race condition”. I’m not even certain that it matters, but I just wanted to be sure.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:17:42 +0000

I noticed that you fire off to the click counter synchronously (ie. using false on the async argument in the call to XmlHttpRequest.open). Did you choose to do this synchronously for a reason?

By: Suttree » Elixir for Immortal Baboon

Suttree » Elixir for Immortal Baboon — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:29:52 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:36:01 +0000

Thanks for the kind words I have that ‘blinded by science’ effect often enough myself. That’s why it’s always the first thing I check: can it be done simpler?
-Martin

By: klog » Blog Archive » External link tracker plugin

klog » Blog Archive » External link tracker plugin — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:47:32 +0000

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External link tracker plugin

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’d be making a plugin out of my Link Tracker code [...]

By: Skeltoac » Blog Archive » Count My Clicks

Skeltoac » Blog Archive » Count My Clicks — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:28:15 +0000

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By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 03:26:11 +0000

Rob, you could add a new attribute to each anchor tag like this: Whatever and then set up your var url with some kind of delimiter: var url='go.php?'+b.href+'uniquedelimiter'+b.linkid; Then update the code in go.php to split the query string at the delimiter and update the database with the resulting data.

By: Rob1

Rob1 — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:46:32 +0000

I’m wondering how hard it is to tie this js to a particular entry id. I’ve mocked up a hit counter pretty much like go.php- but the ‘hits’ are tied to entry id rather than http://whatever.com. I’m using it with a ‘link’ page that’s open to communal links- so the same link could be submitted by different members. I like to be able to track click-thrus according to the id rather than the uri. So when I pass the variable it looks like ?url=http://whatever.com&id=xxx.

Any way to add a second variable a la: var url=’go.php?’+b.href+c.title; or something?

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