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:

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?
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

leatherback

Hi,

For a program download I build a similar counter for a friend of mine. I am not sure whether it was the only way but.. It works in principle, although I seem to remember he did some editing on it. Anyway.. It sghould get you started on hte idea

I had a script which counted for a specified variable the amount of times it was initiated (Like your counter)
After adding the 1 to the count, it would sent header information, but not for a web-page, but for an application, with a force download.

I then linked from my main page, not directly to the file to download, but to the file with this script.


$databasedetails = "settings.php";  // Path to the file with database acces settings




error_reporting(0); // Switch this off for debugging!

//print_r($_SESSION);

   require($databasedetails);   // The file with login settings

        mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_password)
           or die ("<b>Couldn't connect to server</b>");
        mysql_select_db($db_name)
           or die ("<b>Error, no database</b>");

if(isset($_SESSION[loggedin]))

{


If(! isset($_GET[file]))  // Kijk of er een bestand gekozen is
        {
        $file = 0;
        }
        else
        {
        $file = $_GET[file];
        }

switch ($file)
  {

  case 1:  // Voor elk bestand maak je hier een entry. In de link verwijst file=.. naar deze nummers
    $thisfile = "readme.txt";
    $download = "true";
    break;  

  case 2:
    $thisfile = "readme.exe";
    $download = "true";
    break;  

  case 3:
    $thisfile = "pdftest.pdf";
    $download = "true";
    break;

  default:  // Hier zet je alle leuke dingetjes voor je pagina die te zien moeten zijn!


$body ="
<HTML> 
<BODY> 
<A HREF=\"download.php?file=1\">Download program 1</A> <br>
<A HREF=\"download.php?file=2\">Download program 2</A> <br>
<A HREF=\"download.php?file=3\">Download program 3</A> <br>
</BODY> 
</HTML>";

echo $body;

break;
}

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // ------------------- Hier gewoon helemaal niets meer aan doen --------------------
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If($download == "true")   

 { 

 // Insert details

 $userid = $_SESSION[user_extra] * 100;        

 $downloadinsert = mysql_query("insert into downloads (D_user, D_file) values ('$userid', '$file') ");

 $dbn = "".$thisfile."";
 $fp = fopen($dbn, "rb");
 $sdata = fread($fp, filesize($dbn));
 fclose($fp); 

 if (strstr($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"],"MSIE 5.5")) 
   {
   $att = "";
   }
   else 
   { 
   $att = " attachment;";
   }

//  $filename = "file.pdf"; 
header("Cache-control: private"); // fix for IE 
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($thisfile)); 
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; 
filename=$thisfile"); 

$fp = fopen($thisfile, 'r'); 
fpassthru($fp); // ** CORRECT ** 



// header('Cache-control: max-age=31536000');
// header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');
// header('Content-Length: '.filesize($dbn).'');
// header('Content-Type: application/download; name="'.$thisfile.'"');
// header('Content-Disposition:'.$att.' filename="'.$thisfile.'"');
// header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
// echo $sdata;

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
} // Einde download = 'true'


} // einde "Logged In"

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

Pls try and be a little more specific, I'm still a newb