Site Counters ...

**pcbrainbuster** · 03-01-2007, 08:12 PM

Hello all

,

Well again as usual I need to know something and this time it is to do with site counters... I simply just want to know how to do that

Any help will be greatly appreciated

(by site counters i mean that every time the page is visited the counter goes up by one and anyone can see the updated value)

**Blake** · 03-01-2007, 09:05 PM

It would need to be done server side. I would keep an entry that stores the number of hits somewhere in a database. Then when someone views the page, I would increment the count in the database, and then display the new count.

I would probably also use a php session to keep track of users, so that the counter only gets incremented once if someone is browsing through the page.

I could help you out setting one up if you want.

**mburt** · 03-01-2007, 09:09 PM

One of the very basic PHP counters (doesn't read I.P):

Code:

<?php
$cdata = file_get_contents("counter.txt");
$ndata = ($cdata+1);
$handle = fopen("counter.txt","w+");
fwrite($handle,$ndata);
fclose($handle);
echo "\n<br>".$cdata." visits";
?>

**Blake** · 03-01-2007, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by mburt

One of the very basic PHP counters (doesn't read I.P):

Code:

<?php
$cdata = file_get_contents("counter.txt");
$ndata = ($cdata+1);
$handle = fopen("counter.txt","w+");
fwrite($handle,$ndata);
fclose($handle);
echo "\n<br>".$cdata." visits";
?>

Wow, that's nifty. I never considered using a file.

To expand on that, here's how you would use sessions to only increase the count once per visit:

Code:

// do this stuff from here ...
session_start();

$cdata = file_get_contents("counter.txt");
$ndata = $cdata;

if (!isset($_SESSION['user_id']))
{
	$_SESSION['user_id'] = 'user';
	$ndata = ($cdata+1);
	$handle = fopen("counter.txt","w+");
	fwrite($handle,$ndata);
	fclose($handle);
}
//... to here BEFORE sending any data to the browser.

echo "\n<br>".$ndata." visits";

**pcbrainbuster** · 03-01-2007, 09:30 PM

Wow,
you guys are great at this !

Except there may be a few problems - i do not know how to conect a php file to html

or how php works (but i will start learning that to - just not yet)

**Blake** · 03-01-2007, 09:34 PM

The file name needs to end in .php, and any php script needs to go between php tags (<?php and ?>).

For example,

Code:

<html>
<head>

<?php

 echo '<title>This is php!</title>';

?>

</head>
<body>

<?php

echo 'this is more php!';

?>

</body>
</html>

The server will parse this and send the following to your web browser:

Code:

<html>
<head>

<title>This is php!</title>

</head>
<body>

this is more php!

</body>
</html>

**pcbrainbuster** · 03-01-2007, 09:46 PM

Right, So how would add one of the above php codes into the html file

**Blake** · 03-01-2007, 09:53 PM

Put this in your file:

Code:

<html>
<head>

<?php

 echo '<title>This is php!</title>';

?>

</head>
<body>

<?php

echo 'this is more php!';

?>

</body>
</html>

Then save the file as something.php, upload it to your server, and then pull it up (from your server) in a web browser.

It won't be an html file, it will be a php file, but it can still have html in it.

For example, your main page would be index.php instead of index.html.

**pcbrainbuster** · 03-01-2007, 09:58 PM

Thats not what i ment

You gave the counter script and thats what i want combined wit hsome html down below

**pcbrainbuster** · 03-01-2007, 09:59 PM

Before i do that though do i need to download php to my ("borrowed") server and my computer ?
Do you know were to ge it from ? - i am using talktalk's server

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