sending info

[pdogg]

I am designing a cd with a few advertisers on it. Each company has a link to their websites. When they click on the website button i have the cd bring up their website and i was wondering how i could have ams send a form to my email showing what time and date they visited their site.

[Corey]

Well AMS isn't a web server so you can't "send mail" from it per se. However this one's not too hard because you know 100% they have internet access if they are visiting web sites.

The very best way to do this is a redirection script. So you have a small script set up on a web server somewhere, i.e. your web site which logs the use to a text file or database and then redirects users to the appropriate site(s).

We do that here at IR using PHP, very simple. For example all the following links lead to the same web page which re-directs them to different pages:


http://www.indigorose.com/route.php?pid=ams40home
http://www.indigorose.com/route.php?pid=suf60home
http://www.indigorose.com/route.php?pid=lc

You get the idea...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software