hits counter in the framed site...

eugenetrak

Hi, everyone,
please help me to figure this one out.

My index.php frameset consists of top.php frame with all navigation buttons and the main.php frame.
I wrote a php script for counting hits on my site.

When I place this script into main.php frame it calculates not only initial visits to the site but also all subsequent reloads of the main frame when users browse the site through navigation located in the steady top frame. This is obvious fact.

I probably need to place the script in the top frame, which loads only once, but then how I display the value of the counter variable in the main frame for users to see?

Your time and help are greatly appreciated.
Eugene.

shawon22

put the value in session or cookie or a text file or a database file etc. etc..

theeper

Depends on how the hit counter works. Did you make it yourself ? Is the count stored on your server?

eugenetrak

Here is my php script:

<?php
if ($REMOTE_HOST) {
$visitor = $REMOTE_HOST;
} else {
$visitor = $REMOTE_ADDR;
}
global $message;
$message .= $visitor . " - - " . date ("[m/d/y G:i:s T]") . " - - " . $REQUEST_URI . " - - " . $HTTP_REFERER . " - - " . $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
$track = fopen ("tracklog.txt", "a+");
/if (!$track) {
echo "<br>Unable to open remote file for writing.\n";
exit;
}/
fwrite ($track, "$message\n");
fclose ($track);
$lines = file ("tracklog.txt");
$hits = count ($lines);
?>

And then I would display it:

It works in non-framed document.
As you can see I am pretty new.

Please tell me more about sessions and cookies.
Thanks.

theeper

Just put that script into any script page you want. You are writing your hit count to a file, so put the script in your index frameset maybe and then display your hit count on any other page by including it.

include 'tracklog.txt';

read about sessions here.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

read about cookies here.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

eugenetrak

Thanks for the info, theeper.
I will need to do some learning.