Ajax - Trying to count thread views on outgoing links.

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Hi,

I will preface by saying I am a total noob and I really know nothing.

I am trying to use one of my forums as a link dump/directory. I am trying to count the thread views on an outbound link (ie clicking the link increases thread views by 1). I found a snippet of code on another forum and I am trying to get it to fill my needs:

<script type="text/javascript">
function trackClick( id ){
    var url = "http://www.amateurpornster.com/showthread.php?t=" + id;
    xmlRequestObj = window.XMLHttpRequest?new XMLHttpRequest():new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
    xmlRequestObj.open("GET", url, true);
    xmlRequestObj.send(null);
    return false;
}
</script>

So I am using a link like this in the threadbit template (in this forum (3) I will just put the URL in as the post body so $thread[preview] becomes the URL):

<a href=<if condition="in_array($forumid, array(3))">"$thread[preview]" onClick="trackClick( '$thread[threadid]' );" target="_blank"<else />"showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]"</if> id="thread_title_$thread[realthreadid]"<if condition="$show['gotonewpost']"> style="font-weight:bold"</if>>$thread[threadtitle]</a>

Now I may be completely off, but should that work for counting the views when the trackClick function is triggered by clicking on the link?

Any help would be appreciated, or just tell me it wont work and I will look for another solution!

Cheers,
Ian