why don't you just assign a variable to the link you are going to include on
your cd and then on your main home page use some conditional logic to test
to see if that variable exists, if it does then do an insert into your DB
then you can track who's coming from he cd. just my 2 cents :-)
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From: "Parker, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF Talk (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 9:15 PM
Subject: Backwards and forwards
> Not sure if this made it to the list last week with the list having some
> dramas so her it is again - apologies if its already hit the mark with
some
> of you.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Can someone give little bit of advice here please?
>
> We are going to release our Corporate Plan on those little CD cards this
> year. On the CD will be a web version of our Corporate Plan. In it will be
> links back to our web site. We think it would be pretty useful if we had
an
> idea how many times the cards were used to link to our web site.
>
> There are 2 options. I can create a phantom version of each page that is
> linked to from the CD card e.g. if the link is to index.html then we
create
> a duplicate of that page e.g. index_2.html and use that for the card link.
> Then we can trawl our web stats and do a count of how many hits on
> index_2.html. This is simple but there is a maintenance overhead as we
have
> about 10 to 15 links in the plan i.e. each time we regenerate the site we
> have to create the phantom pages again. It also means we are locked into a
> certain site structure of a while.
>
> The CF option is to place a CF page between the CD and the target page
that
> increments or adds a value in a database and uses CFLOCATION to move them
to
> the target page (our main web site is not am CF server FYI). (This option
> allows us to change site structure - when it does we simply change the
> value of the url in CFLOCATION). The problem I've encountered with this
one
> is when the user hits the back button they will be directed back to the CF
> page from whence they came and then encounter the CFLOCATION bit that
loops
> them to where they came from - not the desired result. Hmmmm! I could put
> some JavaScript in to manipulate history but the problem there is what
> happens when they hit the back button when they come to the page from
within
> the web site itself, not via the card.
>
> Any clues please?
>
>
>
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