I've got a basic like button concept on my site that visits url.tld?action=love and adds +1 to the link's database column.
It's a hassle redirecting to another page all the time though. Is it possible to click the button, and send a request to the URL without actually redirecting to a new URL? Also maybe refresh the button afterwards only so that the count updates?
For a general idea of what my download button is this is in the header:
<?php require_once('phpcount.php'); ?>
<p class="hidden"><?php
$time = time();
for($i = 0; $i < 1; $i++)
{
PHPCount::AddHit("$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]", "127.0.0.1");
}
echo (time() - $time);
/*echo "PAGE1 NON: " . PHPCount::GetHits("page1") . "
PAGE1 UNIQUE: " . PHPCount::GetHits("page1", true);
echo "
" . PHPCount::GetHits("page2");
$ntot = PHPCount::GetTotalHits();
$utot = PHPcount::GetTotalHits(true);
echo "###$ntot!!!!$utot";*/?></p>
And this is an example of my "love" button.
<a href="https://alt.epicmc.us/download.php?link='.strip_tags($package_get).'?action=love" target="_blank" class="red-button">Love <span class="count">'. PHPCount::GetHits("$package_get?action=love", true).'</span></a>
The reason I used this method is because people create pages, and I wanted the like button to work out of the box. When their page is first visited it adds their url to the database, and begins tallying unique hits.
This is basically adding a new link column called downloadlink?action=love, and tallying unique clicks.