Do you put a lot of external links on your site? If so, sometimes it's nice to know how often they get clicked on. While you can use your web log files to watch it, Angela, the About.com Guide to PHP, has a great script that you can use to track the clicks and even display them on your web page. For example, if you have a links to product downloads, you can show how popular each one is by adding this script to your page to count the clicks.

Counting Outbound Clicks with PHP originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 08:45:15.

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