I am trying to store clicked link in database
<a id="downloads" href="http://example.com/filename?hello.rar">Download</a>
$('#downloads').click(function(){
event.preventDefault();
var url ="http://www.example.com/count.php?filename=hello.rar";
$.get(url, function(data) {});
});
Link gets stored in database but file download don't start http://example.com/filename?hello.rar
if i remove event.preventDefault(); download start but it don't save link in database
Please provide some solution to this or Suggest any better way to do this. Thanx