Click counter- pls help

[aconeinc]

I want a counter to track number of clicks on various song links on my html page and that number to be visible at a location on that page.

I made a counter.php script:

<?php
$count = file_get_contents("count.txt");
$count = explode("=", $count);
$count[1] = $count[1]+1;
$file = fopen("count.txt", "w+");
fwrite($file, "count=".$count[1]);
fclose($file);
print "count=".$count[1];
?>

I also have a count.txt file with a value of 0. So far I have the essential tools. My delima is:

1. How to make the links trigger a count each time they are clicked in addition to playing the song that was click on. Instead of
   <a href="http://www.aconeinc.com/sounds/hollademo.m3u">Hi-fi for instance, what should it be?

2. How to make that value in the count.txt to be visible on my html page. How do I insert it on a given location on my page?

Thank you
Ken

[planetsim]

Ok firstly the page must be PHP, it can be another language like Perl, ASP but thats beside the point its a PHP Forum 😃

Anyway as soon as the pages accessed you will need the Counter Code at Top. Or at least before you re-access the file to display the correct number of hits to that page.

Also if you are wanting to show unique hits by this i mean hits for each page you will need to organise your text file correctly so e.g.

index|1
news|10

From there you need to use file(); which you have it basically just opens the entire file for reading.

from there you need to explode it to

so

explode("|",$contents);

to get the index and 1 as seperate values.

From there you will need to just echo out the hit value in my example it will be one.

[aconeinc]

My page is in html and I made it in dreamweaver. The counter script I have works fine cause I was using it for a flash page initially(www.aconeinc.com/beats.htm) . But now I want it for my html page. All I need is an html code to insert it in my page and a different code for the lin so that a count is triggered. Thanks

[crimaniak]

easiest way to organize information is the associative array with URL as key and hit count as value. Load it, increment count and serialize back to file.

like this pseudocode:

$counters=unserialize(loadFile($filename));
echo ++$counters[$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]];
saveFile($filename,serialize($counters));

to count media file you can:

1. give media files using redirect php page - dirty and unreliable
2. give media files using php page ( header() + readfile() ) - better way.
3. best way - analyze Apache log and move information to database. But don't do it now: first you need more experience.