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Anon

What is the best way to know when to increase hits, I mean i don't wan't it to increase it every time someone refreshes the page. I have i statistics site to, so i don't wan't users to be able to refresh to fill the statistics to the top. I was thinking of logging the clients IP and store it in a database and check it every time the user refreshes the page if it is equal then do not increase hits, other way do increase..is that a good idea ? but then what would be an fairly good expire time for each IP ?

hope you got that =) (not good at explaning stuff)

/Sleepy

Anon

You can set a cookie that expires in X amount of time. Then check for the cookie before updating the count.

Using IP address is usually a bad idea as many corporations and isps use proxy servers which make all their users have the same ip.

Good Luck.

Anon

This is just a "if"...but if i wan't to use a cookie for let's say user tracking that should not expire in the same amount of time what do I do then ?

Anon

Set a second cookie with additional time. For example:

// set a cookie that shows they have already
// been counted that will expire in 24 hours
setcookie ("counted", "1", time()+86400);

// set a userId cookie that expires in 1 year
setcookie ("userId", $userId, time()+31536000);