How To Redirect Users Using Javascript or PHP!

Joshua Schaible — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:14:29 +0000

Say your switching domains and you want to automatically forward users that go to your old domain, to get forwarded them to your new one. This can be accomplished with either Javascript or PHP.

Using Javascript

Insert this Javascript code into the head of your page (Most likely your index file):

<script type="text/javascript">

function delayer(){

    window.location = "http://joshuaschaible.com"

}

</script>

Replace “http://joshuaschaible.com/” with that URL you want to forward your users too. Then you must insert an “onload” function in your body tag. It should look like this:

<body onLoad="setTimeout(‘delayer()’, 5000)">

This tells the browser to forward to the site you specificed in 5 seconds. 5 Seconds = 5000. 4 Seconds = 4000 and so on.

Using PHP

If you want to automatically forward your users with out a delay, here is a simple step. First your index file must have an extention of .php. (ex. index.php) If it doesn’t you can do this in your control panel or FTP. Next, insert this code at the top of your web page.

  header ("Location: http://joshuaschaible.com");

?>

Again, make sure to change the URL so that your site doesn’t forward to mine.

Track Outgoing Links With jQuery And G-Analytics!

Joshua Schaible — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:35:48 +0000

This is an explanation of how you can track single outgoing links with some jQuery and Google Analytics. Why would you do this? Say your selling an iPhone app, and you have a few ads/links on your own site linking to that iPhone app in iTunes, and you want to know how many people are clicking on that ad vs. the people buying the app. Sound like something you need? Lets get started.

If you don’t have a Google Analytics account, go make one and come back once you have installed the tracking code in the footer of your website. Don’t worry, this post will wait for you.

Step #1

Enter this into the of your website if your not already using the jQuery library.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Step #2

Now go to the specific link that you want to track the clicks on. Your basic html link will probably look like this:

<a href="http://joshuaschaible.com/myiphoneapp" target="_blank">Buy My App!a>

All we have to do is add one javascript variable:

onClick=‘javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview("/outgoing/NAME-HERE");’

Add the onClick function and your link will look like this:

<a onClick=‘javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview("/outgoing/NAME-HERE");’ href="http://joshuaschaible.com/myiphoneapp" target="_blank">Buy My App!a>

Where it says “NAME-HERE” you should put a name or identifier of what your tracking. For example:

<a onClick=‘javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview("/outgoing/myiphoneapp");’ href="http://joshuaschaible.com/myiphoneapp" target="_blank">Buy My App!a>

Step #3

Log into Google Analytics. In the left hand side go to “Content” and then to “Top Content.”

At the bottom there will be a search box which says “Filter Page.” Type in “outgoing”. It should then show you all records of /outgoing/ clicks. According to our example it should say “/outgoing/myiphoneapp/ and show you the amount of clicks and the amount of unique page views.

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Remember…

Google Analytics doesn’t work in real time yet, so you may have to wait up to 24 hours to start seeing the click numbers go up! Hope you enjoyed! Please comment with any questions!

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