added home page counter

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 11:36 pm

I decided to program a counter for the home page. It only counts hits on the home page and not the whole site (which is why the numbers will be low). It counts unique hits (IPs) and total hits (same IP can be counted more than once).

Took me less than 10 minutes to make so I'm still making sure it works, but it seem to work fine. It resets every month.

I hope to see big numbers

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 12:52 pm

Cool! This will be neat.

Only 10 minutes to make?

You must have some skill, Red.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:06 pm

Yep, I'm getting pretty good with php. And this is actually a very simple script and I already knew how I'd make it. It has two parts to it. One checks a list of IPs and if the viewer IP is not in it, it ads it and counts the list +1, displays the number, then there's another part that reads a number, upps it +1, writes it back and displays it. Php is fun.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:14 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Yep, I'm getting pretty good with php. And this is actually a very simple script and I already knew how I'd make it. It has two parts to it. One checks a list of IPs and if the viewer IP is not in it, it ads it and counts the list +1, displays the number, then there's another part that reads a number, upps it +1, writes it back and displays it. Php is fun.

PHP does sound fun... It looks like one can do some very powerful things with it.

I'm glad to hear you're getting good with PHP. It must be satisfying.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:06 pm

Yep, php is a great programming language. Though, it cannot be compared with something such as C++. Since C++ is a "client side" language, as in, it can make programs and such that run on a computer, while php is "server side" and is more of a scripting language which basically is to generate html. By looking at the source code, one would not be able to tell it's actually php since it just spits out html. That's what's cool about it. Dynamic pages.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 4:19 pm

no no no no. red does not have skill he is a squirrel he packs the codes away like nuts.

he did this counter thing in school in the 4th grade and it took him until the 9th grade to understand what it was he created.

what took 10 minutes was trying to figure out how to get it online.

and it took 10 minutes to figure out how to make this post and mess with red some

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 4:22 pm

lol. Actually, in grade 4 I doubt I knew how to turn one on.

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