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== Tracking web form submittal ==
 
== Tracking web form submittal ==

Revision as of 13:49, 29 July 2015

Questions I have received about web design, and my advice.

Tracking web form submittal

Question: I have a client that wants to receive information from a form and when they click the submit button they want their viewer to be launched to a different site ... like a YouTube video.

I am using a bootstrap form that captures info and sends it to site owner via email. The clients intent is to track those that go to the video.

The form I am using utilizes a JS to capture and a PHP to send the info to the client.

Answer:

The web form submits to a PHP script which sends the site owner an email.

In the PHP script, after sending the email, do the following:

  • Log the user's visit: write a line to a log file, or add a record to a database, with the user's IP address and time of visit.