How to tell if an image is being hotlinked...

[awesty]

Is there anyway to be able to tell if an image you are hosting is being viewed on another site, and if so tell which image it is and run a script when it is viewed?

thanks :)

[renoir]

well, you can see my blog for an example of image hotlinking (http://www.netpaths.net/blog/).

you can stop it with .htaccess mod_rewrite

[awesty]

I had a look but couldnt find the article. can you give me a direct link?

i am not trying to stop people hotlinking, i just want to run a php script that will update a database everytime an image is viewed on any site.

[krakjoe]

Couple of ways you could do it, are you wanting to track all images or all images from a particular location, gimme a look at an example url of an image you want to track.

I would rewrite image urls to a php script, lets assume your images are in /hotlinked/


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/hotlinked/(.*)$ count_my_images.php?image=$1


count_my_images.php =

<?
if( file_exists( sprintf( '/hotlinked/%s', $_GET['image'] ) ) )
{
update_my_data_base( $_GET['image'] );
echo file_get_contents( sprintf( '/hotlinked/%s', $_GET['image'] ) );
}
else
{
echo file_get_contents( '/hotlinked/404.image.jpg' );
}


That code prolly won't actually work for you, is an example, gimme some more details and I'll write something that does.....

[awesty]

okay, thanks. i will mess around with the code you gave me.