Tracking Clicks by IP Address Using C# and XML

This is a very basic article describing that tracing an IPAddress and getting the number of clicks for a particular control. This gives the basic idea for counting the unique clicks for a control or for a page using XML.

This article contains only two pages. One is aspx and another one is XML file.

Problem Description: I have an image control in my page. I need to display the number of clicks for particular user system. This means for the first time when I click on the control, it should display like "no of clicks is 1" and for the second time onwards the value will vary.

Technologies: C#.Net, VISUAL STUDIO 2008

Pages: noofclicks.aspx, noofclicks.aspx.cs, count.xml

Code for noofclicks.aspx:

<div>

<asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton1" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/middle.jpg" onclick="ImageButton1_Click" />

</div>

</form>

Code behind for noofclicks.aspx page

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Xml;

using System.Net;

using System.Data;

public partial class noofclicks : System.Web.UI.Page

{

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

int i;

DataSet ds;

int j;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

}

protected void ImageButton1_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)

{

//retrieve ip address

string host = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

string hostname = Dns.GetHostEntry(host).HostName;

IPHostEntry ipEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(host);

IPAddress[] addr = ipEntry.AddressList;

//xml

doc.Load(Server.MapPath("~/count.xml"));

XmlNodeList list = doc.SelectNodes("//NewDataset/section");

foreach (XmlNode node in list)

{

//checking whether the ip address is there or not

if (addr[0].ToString() == node.ChildNodes[1].InnerText)

{

i = Convert.ToInt32(node.ChildNodes[0].InnerText);

i += 1;

node.ChildNodes[0].InnerText = i.ToString();

doc.Save(Server.MapPath("~/count.xml"));

j = 1;

}

else

{

j = 0;

}

if (j == 0)

{

ds = new DataSet();

ds.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("~/count.xml"));

DataRow row = ds.Tables[0].NewRow();

row["count"] = "1";

row["ip"] = addr[0].ToString();

ds.Tables[0].Rows.Add(row);

ds.WriteXml(Server.MapPath("~/count.xml"));

Response.Write(" no of clicks for this image from ur ip address " + i + 1);

}

else

Response.Write(" no of clicks for this image from ur ip address " + i);

}

count.xml File

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>

</section>

</section>

</section>

</section>

</section>

</section>

</section>

</NewDataset>

This gives only a basic idea....

Enjoy the day buddies...!