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how do i record in real time?

[incywincy]

i have an advertising process where my banner advert links to a form hosted on another webserver.

at the moment i can easily track the number of banner views and the number of click throughs to the off-site form.

i have also arranged for a single pixel gif to get pulled from my webserver every time that the form is submitted to my advertiser.

is there anything available to me that could write to mysql, in real time, every time that the single pixel gif was accessed (ie could i serve the gif via a script?). i would prefer to do this rather than process my logs periodically

thanks in advance

[too much information]

Use the <!--#include file="..." --> to call a script on your server that records the hit and forget about the gif.

It's just as easy as the <img> tag but gives you more flexability, plus it doesn't have to return or display anything, just record the hit.