PHP - Counter

Ok, I'm not sure if this is even possible but I will try and explain what I want to do and then maybe someone will be able to point me in the right direction. Say I have a link to an external site like google for example, when that link is clicked the target (google in this case) will open in a new window and the page on my site remains the same, is it possible to insert data into a table in my database at the same time when the link was clicked like an id value for the link, effectively creating a count, which can be displayed somewhere on the page? I really hope that makes sense, any help would be much appreciated!

hi there i am looking to build a button counter. and i am wondering of you could help.

i want the button to +1 every time someone clicks it and also store the value so it can be used as a voucher code.

can anyone help thanks

hi all,

i have made a counter as a module for my website.

when i directly go to de module and start de counter i see the picure en he does his work, butt wen i call it in de index.php by include('modules/counter/counter.php')

then i see een not loaded picturebox and i dont know why it doesnt works ?

you can see the counter and the problem on: http://nieuw.pc-hulp-online.nl/index.php

can someone help me to make it als work with include()??

thnx

Hey everyone!

My upcoming site will host, potentiallly thousands of photographs, and i was wondering how to go about having a unique ip hit counter for EACH image.

Obviously i dont want people refreshing the page to gain hits, therefore the hit counter will need to be dependent on the IP address.
I have used google and found a few hit counters however i need to know how to make this practical as it seems like it will require a lot of databases!


Thanks in advanced, Jimmy.

Hi,

I can't think how to make a counter which goes up during the day, and when a new day starts it gets reset to 0.

How can I do this without relying on visitors to the site to run the script?

Cheers,

Tom.

Hello,

My hit counter doesnt work, at all. It is ment to update hits.txt(add 1 to the number in there.), and desplay how many hits it has using gd2.

Here is my code:
<?php

/**
 * @author Jragon
 * @copyright 2010
 */
getHits()

function getHits()
{
    $file = "hits.txt";
    $fh = fopen($file, "r");
    $hits = fread($fh, filesize("$file"));
    fclose($fh);
    ++$hits;
    $fh = fopen($file, "w+");
    fwrite($fh, "$hits");
    fclose($fh);
    getImage("$hits");

}

function getImage($string)
{
    //Make $string to to a string
    $string = "$string";
    //Define fontsize
    $font = 5;
    //use imagefontwidth to find out the widht of each charicter,
    //then times it by how many charicters theere are,
    //and add some padding.
    $width = imagefontwidth($font) * strlen($string) + 10;
    //height of a charicter, and add some padding.
    $height = imagefontheight($font) + 10;
    //random color thingy.
    $r = rand(25, 250);
    $g = rand(25, 250);
    $b = rand(25, 250);
    //create a blank image using the dimsions set above.
    $image = imagecreate($width, $height);
    //set the background color
    $background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
    //set the text color using the random integers made above.
    $text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, $r, $g, $b);
    //Put the text into the image.
    imagestring($image, $font, 6, 6, $string, $text_color);
    //Change the type of webpage so you see the image
    header("Content-type: image/png");
    //put everything together and make the image
    imagepng($image);
    //free up some space on the temp drive
    imagedestroy($image);
}


?>

I have created hits.txt with the value of 0 inside of it.


Thanks
Jragon

I'm not sure if this is the right form I may need to put this in the mySQL forum so apologies if it's in the wrong place. I would however like to do this in php.

What I need to do is set up a counter that resets every day at midnight. So it would start with 01 and count up till 12:00AM server time and then reset to 01 for the next day. This is for an ordering system to add a number to the end of any order.

Any help is much appreciated. I know it's not much info but I'm not even sure where to begin such a thing.

I have music (my own) that I want to put on my website for download, and I was wondering if there is a way to keep track of how many people download each song, by tracking the clicks and displaying that number in a css-styled box. Anyone know how this is done? I don't need help with the css, just the php.

I am trying to keep track of how many times a page is loaded for debugging.

Here is my code but it doesn't seem to work?!

Code: [Select]
<?php
isset($counter) ? $counter++ : $counter=1;
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<title>Page A</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>

<body>
<h3>Add a Comment</h3>

<form action="Processing.php" method="post">
<fieldset>
<!-- Comment -->
<label>Comment:</label><br />
<textarea cols="50" rows="15"><?php echo $counter; ?></textarea>
<br />

<!-- Submit Form -->
<input type="submit" name="addComment" id="addComment" value="Add a Comment"/>
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
What am I doing wrong?


Debbie

Need some help on my result counter. I am using a search box to return data from my database i can get the result returned fine but i am having problems getting the total number of result returned. It only returns the number of results per page as i am using a paginate.
Can some one point me in the right direction.

The number count im using is below.
Code: [Select]

$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($sql);

  echo "$num_rows Results Found\n";

I know this should be easy but I cannot find right query to do this online. I simple want a counter of each result of my query. What is the proper way to query this.  For example   1 | Result 1 2 | Result 2 3 | Result 3   The one I found online did a weird grouping counter.   Thanks

<?php
  $counter_name = 'Counter.txt';

  if (!file_exists($counter_name)) {
    $f = fopen($counter_name, "w");
    fwrite($f,"0");
    fclose($f);
  }

  $f = fopen($counter_name,"r");
  $counterVal = fread($f, filesize($counter_name));
  fclose($f);

  $counterVal++;

  $f = fopen($counter_name, "w");
  fwrite($f, $counterVal);
  fclose($f);

  echo $counterVal;
?>

This is click counter... Counter.txt only number...

How to add a date?

Counter / Date

1. 2021-02-28 19:50:47

2. 2021-02-23 17:57:11

etc

 

Hello,

I am wondering how to create a counter that has 5 digits and counts the results from a db field (not just the returned results but the numeric SUM of the values in the field) for display.

i.e. if the sum of the field = 347 the counter would read 00347 
I have created images for the numbers 0-9 and named them 0.png, 1.png, 2.png etc

Also, I may have to sum a value that is stored in the db as serialized data (part of an array). If so how can I do that??

Hello. I am trying to build a PHP hit counter for each game ID in the column of my database when visited, and updating the 'fldPlays' column by +1 to show how many people visited each page. I have a huge table with a list of data, but I'll show just 3 of the columns I have. Here they a


fldID |  fldData  |  fldPlays
===================
32145    Data1            0
21543    Data2            0
75855    Data3            0
36623    Data4            0
12471    Data5            0
===================


I am trying to increase the counter number at the 'fldPlays' column to show how many users had played each game by identifying the ID first.

So for example:

User types in 'http://www.mysite.com/games.php?id=32145' in the address bar for the 'Data1' game, and then once the user enters that particular page with that ID 32145 as you see in the URL, it adds 1 to the 'fldPlays' in that row. Overall, when I echo out 'fldPlays' as text in each page, it shows how many people actually played that page.

Just to let everybody know that I am still learning PHP and I am new to counters as well.

My guess to start the PHP counter is to fetch the ID of that URL, you would have to get id like this:

Code: [Select]
<?php

if(isset($_GET['id'])) {

$conn = mysql_connect("database", "username", "password");

mysql_select_db("data");

$game_id = $_GET['id'];

$sql = "SELECT * FROM dbname WHERE fldID='$game_id' LIMIT 1";

?>
If anyone needs clarification, I will reply. Thanks for helping.

I have a download section in my index.php that I'd like to add a download counter to but have no idea how to accomplish this. The existing code works perfectly but I'd like to know how many times the file is downloaded. Would prefer not to use a database.

<!--  DOWNLOAD -->
<div id="download" class="stylized">
    <div "myform">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="download">
                <br /><br>
                <h1><center>FoxClone Download Page</center></h1>
                   <?php
                    $files = glob('download/*.iso');
                    $file = $files[count($files) -1];
                    $info = pathinfo($file);
                    $filename =  basename($file);
                    $filename = ltrim($filename,'/');
                    $md5file = md5_file($file);
                   ?>

                     <div class="container">
                        <div class="divL">                       
                            <h3>Get the "<?php echo "{$filename}";?>" file (approx. 600MB)</h3>
                        <center>  <a href="<?php echo "/{$file}";?>"><img src="images/button_get-the-app.png" alt=""></a> </center><br />
                            <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.5rem;">The MD5sum for "<?php echo "{$filename}";?>" is "<?php echo "{$md5file}";?>  

Thanks in advance,

Larry

Edited March 31, 2020 by larry29936
added code tags