I need to collect the number of the users who click on the banner on which there is a link, i.e.,

<a href="http://www.clientwebsite.com" target="_BLANK">
<img src="http://www.clientwebsite.com/images/banner.gif">
</a>

Please help.

So basically you are talking about an onclick event that triggers a http post to yur system (to record the click) and then allows the link to function as normal yes??

Why don't you make the link reference a page on your side that records the click and then redirects to the actual link location/target?

The client's banner is placed on our web pages. We need to know the number of clicks on the banner per month. I did the following way:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
function saveClickNumber() {
<% Application("ClickNumber") = Application("ClickNumber") + 1 %>
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

<a href="http://www.clientwebsite.com" target="_BLANK" onclick="javascript:saveClickNumber()">
<img src="http://www.clientwebsite.com/images/banner.gif">
</a>

But the question is when you refresh the page, the Application("ClickNumber") will be incremented by 2. I do not know how to do it correctly.

err,.. with what you have done you are not recording the number of clicks you are recording the number of displays.....

Your trying to mix your client side scripts with your sever side scripts and that just doesn't really work...

Any good idea? Thanks.

The way it is normally done is something like this....

Page1 - displays whatever it is meant to as well as the banner. Clicking the banner links to page 2

Page2 - records the web click and redirects to the proper location for the banner

So your link becomes something like...

<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/redirect.asp?loc=www.clientwebsite.com" target="_BLANK" >
<img src="http://www.clientwebsite.com/images/banner.gif">
</a>

In redirect.asp you have something like...

Application("BannerCount") = Application("BannerCount") + 1
Redirect("http://" & Request.QueryString("loc"))

Would that fit in with your solution requirements??

Yes, it works. Thanks.

No problems. You might have an issue with spaces in urls and escaping characters if you are trying to go to a specific page within a site instead of the default page, but can can get around all that with a few refinements to the general idea.

I used Server.URLEnCode(url) instead of url. And also in redirect.asp page, I put IF statement to check the querystring in case someone hits the redirect.asp page.

Thank you again.

that should cover most of it.