Counter + refresh

Anon

I've done a small counter and it runs.
But I don't want to have it counting
refreshes. How can I do this without
session variables ?

thanks

Anon

I solved this problem when I coded my counter by creating a file where visitors IP and time are saved. When the script is executed it will compare values in the file and values sended by visitors browser.

Here is a piece of that code. I typed it from memory so I don't guarantee it will work correctly.

$time_limit = '60'; // in seconds
$visit_log = '/path/to/visit.log';

$visits = file($visit_log);
foreach ($visits as $visit) {
list($ip, $time) = explode('||', $visit);
if ((getenv('REMOTE_ADDR') == $ip) && ($time + $time_limit) > time()){
$do_not_increase_count = 1;
}
}

if (!$do_not_increase_count) {
// place here your piece of code which increases the count number
}
else {
// place here your piece of code which prints the count number
}

I can post the piece of code from my working counter script if this doesn't work.

newbie

Anon

I would like to have my counter refresh or reset at certain times, say every 24 hours. Is that possible.?
thanks

susana

I have the same trouble than Sascha and I want to know if anybody have another solution to make a counter without counting
refreshes but I want to do a counter with
session variables.

I hope somebody can help me.

thanks...

Anon

this should help with that, it keeps a daily count as well as a total count and will even give you the number of unique visitors

Anon

DUH! here it is:

// Our log file;
$counter = "counter.txt";

// Date logging;
$today = getdate();
$month = $today[month];
$mday = $today[mday];
$year = $today[year];
$current_date = $mday . $month . $year;
// Log visit;
if($REMOTE_ADDR != "64.192.228.225") {
$fp = fopen($counter, "a");
$line = $REMOTE_ADDR . "|" . $mday . $month . $year . "\n";
$size = strlen($line);
fputs($fp, $line, $size);
fclose($fp);
} else {}
// Read log file into array;
$contents = file($counter);
// Total hits;
$total_hits = sizeof($contents);
// Total hosts;
$total_hosts = array();
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($contents);$i++) {
$entry = explode("|", $contents[$i]);
array_push($total_hosts, $entry[0]);
}
$total_hosts_size = sizeof(array_unique($total_hosts));
// Daily hits;
$daily_hits = array();
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($contents);$i++) {
$entry = explode("|", $contents[$i]);
if ($current_date == chop($entry[1])) {
array_push($daily_hits, $entry[0]);
}}
$daily_hits_size = sizeof($daily_hits);
// Daily hosts;
$daily_hosts = array();
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($contents);$i++) {
$entry = explode("|", $contents[$i]);
if ($current_date == chop($entry[1])) {
array_push($daily_hosts, $entry[0]);
}}
$daily_hosts_size = sizeof(array_unique($daily_hosts));