I want a script so a link owner can place a link on his/her site to...

http://mysite.com/links/cgi-bin/hotsite.cgi?ID=716

Now when a visitor to the link owners site clicks this link it would record the ID in a temp file and take the user to a page on my site that page would consist of a link/image that is linked to the jump.cgi,
( http://mysite.com/links/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=<$ID$> ) the ID would be pulled from the file and then used on this link when the button is pressed.

This would take the user back to the link owners page and would also use the counter in the jump.cgi so this person would basically get a "hit".

I want this as a simple way for link owners to "want" to place a button linking to my site. What better advertising?

I don't want to use the "rate it" mod, and I really would just like to use the "Popular/Cool" sites page for this.

Any ideas or help would be appriciated.

I believe LadyDragon and DogTag were working on a Mod very similar to this.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee....
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ladyofdragons has done yeoman's work on this one. I think she's almost done. See the following thread:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...um3/HTML/004905.html

What she is doing is trying to make links keep track of incoming clicks. What I want, I think, is simpler. I want to use the same out going clicks as the "Cool" page already uses (from within jump.cgi I believe).. I could simply give them the link with their ID number using a "forwarding" cgi that would simply be used to record the ID number of the site they are coming from so when they click the link it would store the ID number and forward them to a page on my site. On that page (the one on my site) would be a link to the actual jump.cgi using their ID which it calls from where-ever the forwarding cgi stored it.

Let me also explain it like this...

I want to have a cgi, I will call it "data.cgi", so when someone clicks a link on "Site A" (http://mysite.com/data.cgi?123) it would keep the data (123) and goto "Site B". On Site B there would be a link to http://mysite.com/jump.cgi?<$ID$> and when the user clicks this link it would insert the number from the data.cgi (123) into the jump.cgi link.

[This message has been edited by Mainer (edited March 07, 2000).]