Click tracking and redirection

I want to track the clicks on my site.
My existing links look like this
<a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com" target="_blank">Press Me</a>
I made my links look like this <a href="click.php?id=12">Press Me</a>.
I have a php script in the root directory of my website named click.php, and the pseudo code in click.php looks like this.

$id = $_REQUEST['id'];
$get_url = mysql_query("SELECT url FROM myurltable WHERE id = '".$id."'");
// More code to get the value of $url to a real url 
// Even more code to insert click data  into my database.
// I finally want to send my visitor to their destination.
header('Location: $url ");

PHP:

This code works well for getting my visitors to their correct destination and I get real click statistics, but my visitors have now navigated off my site, because I did not open a new window the way my old link did. Is there a way I can make click.php open a new window and leave my site in the existing window?

 

Hey there,

You can do:

<a href="URL" target="_blank">Link to another place</a>

Code (markup):

Hope that helps!

Francisco

 

as Francisco said

you still can use target="_blank" example <a href="click.php?id=12" target="_blank">Press Me</a>

 

Thank you very much Francisco, but that is what my original link did.

 

Oh snap!!!, I did not think of that, both of you guys rock, Thanks