I want to create a counter for free to my users, so that anybody could
generate a small piece of code and add it to his website and by this
way they run their own counters for free
is there a simple way or a ready made php script that could do this.
If anybody could tell me how to do it or the steps will be really
appreciated.
shror
shror wrote:
> I want to create a counter for free to my users, so that anybody could
> generate a small piece of code and add it to his website and by this
> way they run their own counters for free
> is there a simple way or a ready made php script that could do this.
>
> If anybody could tell me how to do it or the steps will be really
> appreciated.
>
> shror
>
Hi shror,
That is not really complicated.
But you'll have to be clearer.
Do you want to store in a database?
Do you want a counter that counts every page, or just hits on a domain?
If you are new to PHP, I would advise you to use something like google
analitics for your sites. (urchin tracker)
You only need to add a small piece of Javascript to your pages of
interest, and make a (free) account at google per domain you want to track.
The result will be a much more professional reporting than a simple counter.
Of course, if you want to make a counter because you want to learn how
to do it in PHP, just ask again, and we will get you going.
Regards,
Erwin Moller
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shror wrote:
> I want to create a counter for free to my users, so that anybody could
> generate a small piece of code and add it to his website and by this
> way they run their own counters for free
> is there a simple way or a ready made php script that could do this.
>
> If anybody could tell me how to do it or the steps will be really
> appreciated.
>
> shror
>
I wrote a counter in php that counts unique ip addresses. Probably more
complicated that you are looking for, but still only a few lines of
code. You need a way to maintain persistent data on the server. The most
popular way to do that with php is to use a MySQL table.
Good luck,
Jim
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On Oct 4, 1:39 pm, James Barrett
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> shror wrote:
> > I want to create a counter for free to my users, so that anybody could
> > generate a small piece of code and add it to his website and by this
> > way they run their own counters for free
> > is there a simple way or a ready made php script that could do this.
>
> > If anybody could tell me how to do it or the steps will be really
> > appreciated.
>
> > shror
>
> I wrote a counter in php that counts unique ip addresses. Probably more
> complicated that you are looking for, but still only a few lines of
> code. You need a way to maintain persistent data on the server. The most
> popular way to do that with php is to use a MySQL table.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Jim
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Thank you for your help and to be much more clearer in my question,
what I want to do is that I want to provide anybody who have a website
a small counter to use on his website that the source of the cunter is
on my hosting area and just what the other websites have is a
javascript that calls a small text file located on my area to add
counts so that the users will be using a service offered for free by
my website, like the freecounters offered by the websites to anybody,
but what I want is just very simple way without registration or
anything, just copy and paste a small piece of code.
Thanks for your help in all ways.
shror
On Oct 5, 11:29 am, shror
> On Oct 4, 1:39 pm, James Barrett
>
>
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> > shror wrote:
> > > I want to create a counter for free to my users, so that anybody could
> > > generate a small piece of code and add it to his website and by this
> > > way they run their own counters for free
> > > is there a simple way or a ready made php script that could do this.
>
> > > If anybody could tell me how to do it or the steps will be really
> > > appreciated.
>
> > > shror
>
> > I wrote a counter in php that counts unique ip addresses. Probably more
> > complicated that you are looking for, but still only a few lines of
> > code. You need a way to maintain persistent data on the server. The most
> > popular way to do that with php is to use a MySQL table.
>
> > Good luck,
>
> > Jim
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> Thank you for your help and to be much more clearer in my question,
> what I want to do is that I want to provide anybody who have a website
> a small counter to use on his website that the source of the cunter is
> on my hosting area and just what the other websites have is a
> javascript that calls a small text file located on my area to add
> counts so that the users will be using a service offered for free by
> my website, like the freecounters offered by the websites to anybody,
> but what I want is just very simple way without registration or
> anything, just copy and paste a small piece of code.
>
> Thanks for your help in all ways.
>
> shror
I used a package called pphlogger for a while. It worked well enough
but as it's no longer actively maintained, I recommend it as a
reference more than a ready-to-roll solution:
http://pphlogger.phpee.com/download.php
I've been working on my own site metric. Development is being done
recreationally and it's still pre-alpha. But the basic parts have
been tested and it's the same concept you describe (using mysql on the
backend) so it, too, may be useful as a reference:
http://bafflegate.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
If you want to offer it as a service to others, it's probably going to
have to be a little less simple than you'd hope -- especially if you
want to distinguish between visitors (sessions) and hits and the like.
But maybe somebody knows of a more reliable pre-existing solution.
Maybe search phpclasses.org.
Tom
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> to be much more clearer in my question,
> what I want to do is that I want to provide anybody who have a website
> a small counter to use on his website that the source of the cunter is
> on my hosting area and just what the other websites have is a
> javascript that calls a small text file located on my area to add
> counts so that the users will be using a service offered for free by
> my website, like the freecounters offered by the websites to anybody,
> but what I want is just very simple way without registration or
> anything, just copy and paste a small piece of code
>
Javascript is a bad idea as some users disable it for security reasons .
The good news is you can do it using a url like
http://www.poop.com/hc/username as all the end user webpage would be
doing is pulling a stored number from your own website .
Your own website would be doing the 1+1 and storing the hit / count .
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> > to be much more clearer in my question,
> > what I want to do is that I want to provide anybody who have a website
> > a small counter to use on his website that the source of the cunter is
> > on my hosting area and just what the other websites have is a
> > javascript that calls a small text file located on my area to add
> > counts so that the users will be using a service offered for free by
> > my website, like the freecounters offered by the websites to anybody,
> > but what I want is just very simple way without registration or
> > anything, just copy and paste a small piece of code
> >
>
> Javascript is a bad idea as some users disable it for security reasons .
>
> The good news is you can do it using a url like
> http://www.poop.com/hc/username as all the end user webpage would be
> doing is pulling a stored number from your own website .
>
> Your own website would be doing the 1+1 and storing the hit / count .
>
As the chances are the user wont be using .php webpages then