Need Simple Web Counter

[402blownstroker]

Looking for a very simple web page counter. No PHP or database interaction.

Keith

 

[MadJuggla9]

Looking for a very simple web page counter. No PHP or database interaction.

Keith

use fopen to open a txt file (counter.txt), grab the number in the file, increment it, and fwrite back to the file.

 

[schism]

use fopen to open a txt file (counter.txt), grab the number in the file, increment it, and fwrite back to the file.

No PHP

Your best bet would be to look for a javascript solution. I'm sure google has some scripts you can copy and paste right into your pages.

 

[Miller]

Try statcounter.com. You have the option of making it invisible, it's free, options for how to implement it, etc. I use it, does its job just fine.

 

[Mightymouse]

i use next gen stats, u can make it invisible if you want, and it gives u a statistic page of like, hits today, in the past week, all time, and the ips that visited with their referred links.

 

[mpalma]

www.statcounter.com is nice

 

[mikeblas]

Of course, fopen() was a function in C about 20 years before it was a function in PHP.

You won't be able to make a page counter without some sort of server-side scripting; if PHP isn't on the list, you'll have to tell us what is available to you.

 

[MadJuggla9]

Of course, fopen() was a function in C about 20 years before it was a function in PHP.

You won't be able to make a page counter without some sort of server-side scripting; if PHP isn't on the list, you'll have to tell us what is available to you.

Indeed

Sorry guys, didn't make it to that part; Why not user perl? If it also doesnt allow that then use javascript, there are plenty google samples out there for custom making a page counter in whatever languages you have access to.

 

[maw]

another vote for StatCounter...

 

[ameoba]

When you say "No PHP" does that mean, literally, "No PHP", or does it mean "No Server-side Scripting" (which would exclude any sort of CGI)? I'll assume it means the latter.

If you can't do anything server-side, you can't make a counter. (you might be able to hack some JS that lets an individual client know how many times they loaded a page, but that's not very interesting).

Using a web-counter service is still server-side, it's just somebody else's server.

 

[MadJuggla9]

What kind of host do you have? You will need to rely on another server for SSI langs to produce what you want, which means try a few of the options above, just look for a free stat counter, but be prepared to have a link and advertisements on it.

Some don't require self promotion, google would be your best bet there. Too bad your host sucks.

 

[maw]

What kind of host do you have? You will need to rely on another server for SSI langs to produce what you want, which means try a few of the options above, just look for a free stat counter, but be prepared to have a link and advertisements on it.

Some don't require self promotion, google would be your best bet there. Too bad your host sucks.

StatCounter can be installed invisibly, just copy/paste a little javascript on the page(s) you want to track. Visitors won't even know it's there (unless they do a view-source)

 

[Asgorath]

StatCounter can be installed invisibly, just copy/paste a little javascript on the page(s) you want to track. Visitors won't even know it's there (unless they do a view-source)

Or they are using a script blocker such as the Firefox Extension 'noscript'

 

[maw]

Or they are using a script blocker such as the Firefox Extension 'noscript'

true..but i'm willing to bet that only a very tiny percentage of users would be disabling JS. a number that may be statistically insignificant in terms of visitor tracking. so it may not matter much for the OP's purposes.

 

[LazyBastard]

No one's heard of Matt's Script Archive? They have a counter there. Of course you need to be running Perl...