topic Counters in Operating System - Linux

Counters

Kyle D. Harris — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:54:12 GMT

What is a few lines of Code to get a Hit Counter going ? Thanks

Kyle

Re: Counters

Jerome Henry — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:58:06 GMT

Hi Kyle,

Hit for what ? Web site ? In php ?

J

Re: Counters

Kyle D. Harris — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:00:18 GMT

Jerome,
Yes we have a program that throws data reports and puts them on a web page. I'd like to see how many people access this page. Currently the counter going now has this code:

WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0 HSPACE=4 VSPACE=2>

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I'd like to get it back to Zero, but I don't see how to set it back to Zero. Thanks

Kyle

Re: Counters

Claudio Cilloni — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:08:47 GMT

The sites the provide web counters give the way to erase them. Usually you need to login somewhere in their home page, insert username and password and they show up a menu to control your counters.
Try searching for instructions in you web-counter provider site.

hth
Claudio

Re: Counters

Jerome Henry — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:15:41 GMT

Well,

AS you are not controlling the variables used to increment the counter, digits.com does, then you have to ask them to reset it to 0, or do it from your control panel in their site. It's explained at :

http://www.digits.com/faq.html#Change

Use this access page, you should be able to do it from there :

http://www.digits.com/change.html

hth

J

Re: Counters

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:21:02 GMT

attaching a perl script for an invisible counter.

Easily inserted into a web pag.

This is for your referece though you could display the results as well.

SEP

Re: Counters

Balaji N — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:47:00 GMT

$filename="count.txt";
$FP = fopen ($filename,'r') or exit("unable to open counter file");
$count = (int) fread ($FP, filesize($filename));
fclose($FP);

$FP = fopen($filename,'w+') or exit("unable to open counter file");
echo "Count is $count";
++$count;
echo "Count is $count";
if(!fwrite($FP, $count)) {
exit("unable to write to counter file");
}

?>

a small php file.

to make this work, do this first.

echo 0 > count.txt

hth
-balaji

Re: Counters

Caesar_3 — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:19:17 GMT

Hello!

The only problem with the code of Balaji
is that if you will have two requests in
the same time than you will have problem.
What you need to do is also add a ability
when you work on the file to do a lock that
the other will wait.

Caesar

Re: Counters

John Meissner — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:06:36 GMT

If you use apache it has built in web statistic tools.

Re: Counters

Balaji N — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:42:28 GMT

if you want a pretty graph from your http access log file, then go for webalizer.
-balaji