pls give me a php code snippet to track the number of users who hit a page - Delphi-PHP Forums

pakala venkata s · #1 (**permalink**) 31st March 2007, 11:33

with out using database? pls give me a php code snippet to track the number of users who hit a page with out using database

warjolt · #2 (**permalink**) 31st March 2007, 11:46

If you want a REAL basic hit counter just open a file and everytime someone goes to the website increment that number in the file. In any case you need to store the number of hits somewhere. Usually you'll want to use something like cookies or IP addresses so you don't count the hits again when someone clicks reload a thousand times.

qwert · #3 (**permalink**) 31st March 2007, 11:47

I do not know php, but hope this helps

http://www.tutorialstream.com/tutori...ts_counter.php

http://www.tizag.com/tools/counter.php

Ryan · #4 (**permalink**) 3rd April 2007, 01:59

So, here is what your going to do... (taken from http://www.tutorials-expert.com/tuto...out-MySQL.html)

1) Create a file called visits.txt and simple type a 0 and save the file to your server.
2) Create a file called counter.php and enter in the following code

PHP Code:


			
<?php $myfile = "visits.txt";

//we assign our file name to the variable we'll use to handle it

if(file_exists($myfile))//if the file exists

{

//we run our counter script $var = fopen( $myfile,\'r+\');

//opens in read and write mode our file

$visits = fread($var,filesize($myfile));

//puts the content of the file for its whole lenght

rewind( $var );

//resets the file position indicator to the beginning

$visits++; //increments the actual number of vists by 1

fwrite($var, $visits);

//writes in the variable the actual (incremented) value

fclose($var);//closes our file reference

}

else

{

print "File $myfile doesn\'t exist...";

Die();

//if the file doesn't exist prompts a warning and kills the script

}

$message = sprintf("%s visitors since 08/20/2005.",$visits);

//saves our visits message in a variable ($message) that will be used as output

print $message;

?>

3) If you want to include it in your page just use this html

HTML Code:

<html>
<body>

<?php include 'counter.php'; ?>

</body>
</html>

professor · #5 (**permalink**) 18th April 2007, 16:29

Thats true but in text file you will get counter incremented by one when user will refresh the page. I would prefer to set the variables at page load first time and then check for that variable using isset() to check whether user is refreshing page or not.

Trumpetx · #6 (**permalink**) 18th April 2007, 18:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by professor

Thats true but in text file you will get counter incremented by one when user will refresh the page. I would prefer to set the variables at page load first time and then check for that variable using isset() to check whether user is refreshing page or not.

or, set a cookie... it's not 100% foolproof, but it works.

flymanj · #7 (**permalink**) 21st April 2007, 14:19

My own opinion is that it is better to store such info a table into the database. in that way you could store not only that somebody has hit the page but also and information about the system that he/she is using and the sessionID, in that way you will be able to track the not only the count of the pages that are hit but also and the individial sessions. Also you could store and the ip and domain from that the user is accessing you.

Beside that technique the best solution to track the users that are using your page of course is made by Google. Check the google analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Best Regards,
Yani

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