I have a CFidea and I wanted to seek advice on the best way to implement it. I'm concerned that this idea will be taxing on my shared web hosting server.
After buildinig sites for employors and contracts, I've finally built a site for myself. My site is a news and downloadable magazine (which I sell for $9.95/yr) THE IDEA On my site(s), I posts related stories from within my industry. I want to reward my readers and build loyalty. I want to reward my readers for each story they read with X point(s). As long as they stay on the page for more than 10-15 (?) seconds they will be rewarded. I want to track this to avoid users from just clicking through stories to get points. Once they accumulate x number of points, they will receive one of the four issues for free. If they collect enough points, they can get an entire year for free and earn additional issues beyond their first year or give their points to friends or co-workers. When visitors reads stories from my site, my google ads are displayed which makes me money. I also want to convey to potential advertisers that our we reward our reader base. No other news site within this industry does this. THE CODE The reader signs up by providing only their e-mail address and confirm their e-mail address through an automated reply from my site with a confirmation link they must click on. As an option if they want to earn reward points, I ask them to sign in with just their e-mail address to initiate and track their points, then get the current time with #CreateODBCDateTime(now())# and store it as a session variable. When they click and go to another page on the site, even if it's not a story, capture the #CreateODBCDateTime(now())# again and compare the times and update their profile with X point(s) if the time difference meets my x seconds per page criteria. If someone just rapidly clicks from story to story to accumalate points, the points will not be counted. If they like the site and decide to become a loyal reader, then they will receive these additonal benefits and be rewarded for their loyalty. Thoughts on the coding approach? Thanks in advance. D- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:250551 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
