What are some best practices for tracking and crediting user clicks in a PHP referral link script?
To track and credit user clicks in a PHP referral link script, you can create a database table to store click data such as user ID, referral link ID, and timestamp. When a user clicks on a referral link, increment a click counter in the database and attribute the click to the corresponding user. This way, you can accurately track and credit user clicks in your referral program.
// Connect to database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "referral_tracking";
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
// Get user ID and referral link ID from request
$user_id = $_GET['user_id'];
$referral_link_id = $_GET['referral_link_id'];
// Insert click data into database
$sql = "INSERT INTO click_data (user_id, referral_link_id, timestamp) VALUES ('$user_id', '$referral_link_id', NOW())";
$conn->query($sql);
// Increment click counter for referral link
$sql = "UPDATE referral_links SET click_count = click_count + 1 WHERE id = '$referral_link_id'";
$conn->query($sql);
// Close database connection
$conn->close();