What about if someone reads an artice, and then navigates to a different site? If they are not hitting another page of yours, then the points tracking wont work.
You might want to concider and AJAX solution for this. On 8/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:250558 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
