Jquery - sending data with $.get()

Question

I am trying to store clicked link in database

<a id="downloads" href="http://example.com/filename?hello.rar">Download</a> $('#downloads').click(function(){ event.preventDefault(); var url ="http://www.example.com/count.php?filename=hello.rar"; $.get(url, function(data) {}); });

Link gets stored in database but file download don't start http://example.com/filename?hello.rar if i remove event.preventDefault(); download start but it don't save link in database

Please provide some solution to this or Suggest any better way to do this. Thanx

MonkeyZeus · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-18 00:14:35Z

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#1

Change CLICK listener to listen for a class or else you can only have one link

#2

Do what you see below

Something like this should work:

HTML

<a class="downloads" href="http://example.com/filename?hello1.rar" target="_blank">Download 1</a> <a class="downloads" href="http://example.com/filename?hello2.rar" target="_blank">Download 2</a> <a class="downloads" href="http://example.com/filename?hello3.rar" target="_blank">Download 3</a>

jQuery

$('.downloads').click(function(){ var clickedURL = $(this).attr('href'); $.get('http://www.example.com/yourSaveURLToDatabaseScript', {'url': clickedURL}); });

edited Mar 18, 2014 at 0:14

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 23:39

MonkeyZeus

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MonkeyZeus Over a year ago

See edit, open the download link in a new tab. Most browsers are set to close the tab if they detect a file download like this.

Yogesh Lakhotia Over a year ago

thanx a ton.i was search whole night for this.

Lee Gary Over a year ago

just take note that, this is not a reliable way of tracking downloads, you can just extract http logs from your web server for a more accurate statistics..

Lee Gary Over a year ago

@YogeshLakhotia it depends on what web server you are using, a high level design would be to use regex to extract the statistics

Lee Gary Over a year ago

it all really depends on what web server and how the logs are written, saving to db using ajax is not the best way to go definitely, i'd rather use google analytics events to track those

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