looking for a decent counter

[keith]

a decent one i tell you. one that doesn't suck.

it seems every counter i've tried will sooner or later reset it self to zero, even the ones i've tried with file locking. anything out there that won't continuously reset itself to zero? it must be able to be included with an ssi tag.

 

[ducktape]

i cant find a good one either

 

[is0lized]

here, this one is easy, but it will count each hit


Make a file called count.inc upload it and chmod it 777

then put this in your HTML and name the doc NAME_HERE.php


replace name_here with index, or whatever


<?
$file = fopen("count.inc","r+");
$count = fread($file, filesize("count.inc"));
fclose($file);
$count += 1;
$file = fopen("count.inc","w+");
fputs($file, $count);
fclose($file);
include("count.inc");?>

 

[fatman]

That's a buggy script. For one, it does not lock the file. Furthermore, because the reading and writing is not atomic (you close the file between reads and writes), it is possible for your counter to miss counts or be reset to an earlier number.

 

[cheatpark]

Maybe some of the excellent programmers that know php here would like to come together and make a counter script. I've never ever come accross a good counter script and agree that there is a need for it.

 

[megapuzik]

hmm....never thought about "buggy" counters, but maybe SQL counter ??
SQL ->

CREATE TABLE counter(count INT);

PHP ->

<?
$link = mysql_connect("host","uset","pass");
mysql_select_db("dbname",$link);

$add_q = mysql_query("UPDATE COUNTER SET count=count+1") ;

$show_q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM counter");

while($res = mysql_fetch_array($show_q))
print $res[count] ;
?>

 

[keith]

yes, php is great, but the site uses ssi [.shtml] and so it must be perl

 

[cheatpark]

Originally posted by megapuzik
hmm....never thought about "buggy" counters, but maybe SQL counter ??
SQL ->

CREATE TABLE counter(count INT);

PHP ->

<?
$link = mysql_connect("host","uset","pass");
mysql_select_db("dbname",$link);

$add_q = mysql_query("UPDATE COUNTER SET count=count+1") ;

$show_q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM counter");

while($res = mysql_fetch_array($show_q))
print $res[count] ;
?>

Thank you. I shall try this a.s.a.p.
<edit>How would I find out refferers?</edit>

 

[megapuzik]

Originally posted by cheatpark

Thank you. I shall try this a.s.a.p.
<edit>How would I find out refferers?</edit>

What do you mean ?? you want to log the refferers ??

 

[is0lized]

hotscripts.com

cg-resources.com


find one that does all of the above or get a stats4all account