How to track visitor click via PHP?

[irock]

Hi, I've just been accepted into a search engine's XML feed program with which I can integrate search result into my site. I've overcome all problems and succeeded in displaying XML results on my pages.

Now, here comes the problem of tracking. If I implement a click tracking program which involves another program, how do I pass through the target URL from the search result page to the tracking program? I would like to hide the target URL as well.

Here's my thought...

XML links displayed on browser -> User clicks on PHP tracking link -> PHP program records click and sends the user to the target URL.

Can this be done w/o showing the target URL? The target URL I'm referring to is like two-mile long and I would like the track URL to be as short as possible.

I know this is rather long. If anyone can offer help, that would be great!

[jatar_k]

I don't see why that wouldn't work. You can include the big ugly url page in another page and also do your tracking. Like using a redirect script.

[irock]

Could you pls be a bit more specific?

[jatar_k]

Well, I imagine that you load/parse the xml feed into the page somehow. So why not have a tracking script on that same page?

Include the tracking function on the top of every page. Unless maybe I am not understanding something.

[irock]

I need to track clicks, actually.