page counter

[bignester]

how would i make a counter to see how many people log onto my page

[Dolda2000]

To make a text one, just write a PHP page that retrieves the number from a text file somewhere in your file system, and then increases it by one and stores it.

[bignester]

what function writes a file

[caffeine]

Check out the great php documentation for fopen and go from there.

[andutt]

Are you using a database for your website??

Regards

[andutt]

If you are using a database i can show you how to build an easy sitecounter.... in PHP.

[bignester]

i have access to a data base would that be better

also i dont really want some one to hit refresh and heve them be counted every time they hit refresh

i think that would include sessions which i learning about

correct me if im wrong please

[Dolda2000]

To have page counters use sessions would certainly be great, but it can be misleading as well. You'll have to remember that in that case, it will count visits, not hits, so you'll be looking at a much lower count.

[bignester]

ok so if i dont use sessions sould the count count higher every time someone presses the refresh button so the count would be much higher than the auctuall number it should be right.

[andutt]

Thats correct...if you have an easy pagecounter hitcounter it will be updated everytime the page are being refreshed, but its like Dolda says if you want a hitcounter or a session hitcounter...its quite easy to fix both.

But its a litte more work to fix a sessionhitcounter.

Regards