counting visitors - how?

[virva]

I should get a count of visitors on the site. Not only loading of the pages, but the real count. Should that be done with cookies, and how do I do it?

[Modrick]

I guess your can add something like this:

<? $ip_address = $REMOTE_ADDR; ?>
<form name="form1" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenField" value="<? echo $REMOTE_ADDR; ?>">
</form>

then do a insert into your database, you may also want to do a hidden field for the page name ect, put them in a 'hit table' the you can make a stats page with a bunch of quearies to give you your stats...