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Recently, I had a project that needed to redirect links through an internal page. The client was trying to isolate some specific analytics and user behavior but obviously you can use this use for a variety of purposes. You will be surprised how simple it is to implement. Let me know if you have any difficulties with the code.

For this project, I created a page called go.php to control the URL/Link redirections.

Here is the code to put on the go.php page:

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< ? PHP

if ($o == “site1″) {$link = “http://www.vonfelten.com”;} // Default link
if ($o == “site2″) {$link = “http://sem.vonfelten.com”;}
if ($o == “site3″) {$link = “http://blog.vonfelten.com”;}
if ($o == “site4″) {$link = “http://forums.vonfelten.com”;}

header(”Location: $link”); // Jump to the URL
exit();
?>

note: you can add parameters to the urls if you want. Be sure and use best practices so you don’t run into any issues. Parameters on a URL should be:

http://www.yoursitename.com/?parameter=value

or

http://www.yoursitename.com/?parameter=value&parameter2=value2,

and so on.
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That’s it… Your ready to test it.

This would be the link you would reference on the page:

http://www.vonfelten.com/blog/go.php?o=site1
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The next step would be to track some information in a log file (i.e. the number of clicks, unique visitors, search phrases, browser information, etc.)

If you are interested in seeing that code, hit me up on email.