Passing control to another url?

[gorilla1]

I am looking to count the numnber of times a link on my page is clicked. I cant put the counter on the page that the link calls, because that page is outside my site. I guess what I need to do is execute some code when the link is hit and then go link to the other url - but is it possible to load a url and pass control in that way?

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[Ökii]

normally you would just pass the new page reference to a script of your own.

<a href="myscript.php?newpage=http://blat.com">

myscript.php

$newpage = $HTTP_GET_VARS['newpage'];

[[[ db stuff --- > "UPDATE field SET count=count+1 WHERE pageref='$newpage'" ]]]

header("location: $newpage");

[edit note] the header () call would effect a redirect to the new page in question without the script having to output anything [/note]

[gorilla1]

Okii, Ok thanks... Excellent.