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Martin Graulund Larsen
26,279 PointsTrack form submission
I want to make a function that counts each time a form is being submitted.
I want to make a control panel where I can have many domains together and see how many form submit is for each. Do I need database access to get this information?
6 Answers
Chris Malcolm
2,909 Pointsif you truly only want to incrementing a counter, you could just save as a text file. Personally I think database would be overkill for this.
Martin Graulund Larsen
26,279 PointsYes it would be an option, but I will do it in more than 1,000 domain at once.
Chris Malcolm
2,909 Points1000 http requests for each single text file might be annoying. maybe consider a BaaS solution. For a database, you would have to make it publicly accessible, unless they are all on same hosting.
Parse or something to store a simple backend.
Martin Graulund Larsen
26,279 PointsIs it possible to insert data from domain-a.com to the MySQL database on domain-b.com?
Chris Malcolm
2,909 PointsIt's possible but you have to check if your domain-b hosting provider allows for it. Alternatively, if you're not allowe you can write a little api to handle setting/getting values from the database..but this would mean you would need to deploy your api to each unique host every time you make a change. thats why i recommended a simpler solution like letting parse handle this stuff.
Martin Graulund Larsen
26,279 PointsOkay Thank you Chris. I will try and look in to that.