Rails spinoffs - Jul 2008 - Using both href= and onclick=new Ajax.request to track outgoing links

Hi,

I''m trying to track outgoing links on my site. When the user clicks on
a link, I want them to be taken to the site (href) and I also want a
background script call that records the link (via Ajax).

The script I have worked in development mode but only works
occasionally in production mode.

Is it possible to link to a new site and call an ajax request at the
same time?

Thanks
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Yup, like this:

<a href="moo.htm"
onclick="writeLog(''moo'');return false">

...where writelog() is a function that does your Ajax call.

Alternately, you can just get Google Analytics to log it:

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ch&answer=55519



On Jul 4, 9:32 am, Fonziguy
<lee.mun...-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m trying to track outgoing links on my site. When the user
clicks on
> a link, I want them to be taken to the site (href) and I also want a
> background script call that records the link (via Ajax).
>
> The script I have worked in development mode but only works
> occasionally in production mode.
>
> Is it possible to link to a new site and call an ajax request at the
> same time?
>
> Thanks
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Thanks for the reply Diodeus.

I see what you''re saying, but won''t the return false stop the
link
from going to the href location?

On Jul 4, 3:29 pm, Diodeus
<diod...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Yup, like this:
>
> <a href="moo.htm"
onclick="writeLog(''moo'');return false">
>
> ...where writelog() is a function that does your Ajax call.
>
> Alternately, you can just get Google Analytics to log it:
>
>
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ch&answer...
>
> On Jul 4, 9:32 am, Fonziguy
<lee.mun...-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I''m trying to track outgoing links on my site. When the user
clicks on
> > a link, I want them to be taken to the site (href) and I also want a
> > background script call that records the link (via Ajax).
>
> > The script I have worked in development mode but only works
> > occasionally in production mode.
>
> > Is it possible to link to a new site and call an ajax request at the
> > same time?
>
> > Thanks
>
>
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Thanks for the reply Diodeus.

I see what you''re saying, but won''t the return false stop the
link
from going to the href location?

On Jul 4, 3:29 pm, Diodeus
<diod...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Yup, like this:
>
> <a href="moo.htm"
onclick="writeLog(''moo'');return false">
>
> ...where writelog() is a function that does your Ajax call.
>
> Alternately, you can just get Google Analytics to log it:
>
>
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ch&answer...
>
> On Jul 4, 9:32 am, Fonziguy
<lee.mun...-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I''m trying to track outgoing links on my site. When the user
clicks on
> > a link, I want them to be taken to the site (href) and I also want a
> > background script call that records the link (via Ajax).
>
> > The script I have worked in development mode but only works
> > occasionally in production mode.
>
> > Is it possible to link to a new site and call an ajax request at the
> > same time?
>
> > Thanks
>
>
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Nope, it does the opposite - it returns control to the link from being
intercepted by Javascript.

On Jul 4, 12:36 pm, Fonziguy
<lee.mun...-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Diodeus.
>
> I see what you''re saying, but won''t the return false stop
the link
> from going to the href location?
>
> On Jul 4, 3:29 pm, Diodeus
<diod...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Yup, like this:
>
> > <a href="moo.htm"
onclick="writeLog(''moo'');return false">
>
> > ...where writelog() is a function that does your Ajax call.
>
> > Alternately, you can just get Google Analytics to log it:
>
>
>http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ch&answer...
>
> > On Jul 4, 9:32 am, Fonziguy
<lee.mun...-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I''m trying to track outgoing links on my site. When the
user clicks on
> > > a link, I want them to be taken to the site (href) and I also
want a
> > > background script call that records the link (via Ajax).
>
> > > The script I have worked in development mode but only works
> > > occasionally in production mode.
>
> > > Is it possible to link to a new site and call an ajax request at
the
> > > same time?
>
> > > Thanks
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On 4.7.2008, at 20.11, Diodeus wrote:
>
> Nope, it does the opposite - it returns control to the link from being
> intercepted by Javascript.
Err, no, it doesn''t. It stops the link from being followed. I even had
to test this in a browser to make sure I''m not imagining things:

<a href="http://google.com"
onclick="console.log(''Testing''); return
false;">Test</a>

That certainly doesn''t go anywhere. Using true instead does lead to  
google.

//jarkko

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On Jul 4, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Jarkko Laine wrote:
> On 4.7.2008, at 20.11, Diodeus wrote:
>
>>
>> Nope, it does the opposite - it returns control to the link from  
>> being
>> intercepted by Javascript.
>
> Err, no, it doesn''t. It stops the link from being followed. I even
> had to test this in a browser to make sure I''m not imagining
things:
>
>
Maybe if your log action returned true, you could do

onclick="return console.log(''Testing'');"

Walter


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On 5.7.2008, at 19.56, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
>
> On Jul 4, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Jarkko Laine wrote:
>
>> On 4.7.2008, at 20.11, Diodeus wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Nope, it does the opposite - it returns control to the link from
>>> being
>>> intercepted by Javascript.
>>
>> Err, no, it doesn''t. It stops the link from being followed. I
even
>> had to test this in a browser to make sure I''m not imagining
things:
>>
>>
>
> Maybe if your log action returned true, you could do
>
> onclick="return console.log(''Testing'');"
Sure, but that wasn''t the point :-) The point was that true
let''s the
browser to follow the link, false stops it. The log msg was there just  
for me to see that the js was executed.

//jarkko

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