Re: index page query from PHP newbie

"Tony" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> "KiwiBrian" <briantoz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Thanks folks for the replies so far.
>> I was hoping that my Home Page link could go to a special page
>> which had a .php extension and contained the appropriate snippet of
>> php and was automatically actioned.
>> Is this another option?
>> I use this method at present to funnel all outgoing links to a site
>> that I want to monitor the number of visits to from my site using
>> Statcounter. If this method is an option, what would I need in my
>> intermediate page in place of the a href link, which in testing I
>> have triggered manually. I hope I am being clear.
>> TIA
>> Brian Tozer
>
> If you're set on keeping the HTML extension, all I could suggest is
> using JavaScript instead of PHP.

Or set index.html as simply a redirect to index.php?

You'd get better help if you would explain what you are trying to
accomplish. Is there some specific reason for not changing index.html
to index.php? A lot of links hard coded to index.html for instance?
If that is the reason, a redirect should work.

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