Ok here goes. I want to do a simple hit counter for a node that the author has published. but....
I don't want the link to go to the full node, because my node listings and search results ARE the full node.
I have my nodes setup so when a user clicks on a node title, an external link and window are opened. Concept is basically a site preview that the user can look through (my node listsings / search query listings) before they actually visit the external site. I just want to be able to give some stats for the authors that publish those nodes.
I can use the statistics module to count if the node has been clicked on, but I don't have a use for the single node view that occurs when you click on a node title.
- The gotwo module http://drupal.org/project/gotwo does link tracking, but is incompatible with views (or seems to be) so I can't give the authors a page for their node stats.
- The Clickthru tracking http://drupal.org/node/36916 sounded promising until trying to get it to work.
- The statistic module works great with views, but again I don't have a use for that single node listing.
I wanted to do some sort of hack where the user clicks on a node title, the new window opens, and the window that normally shows the single node, would then be redirected back 1 to their search results or node listing, but I can't seem to get that to work.