Counter

NZ_Kiwi

Hi,

I'm in the process of making my own counter but I have a problem with one little part of it.

I log a users IP along with all our details I start when a user visits my site. Now i'm if a user visits another page and comes back within say 5 minutes I want it to ignore this hit!!

How does that work?

Erestar

If you use a session and only log a hit when a new session is created it should work the way you want.

Check the php.net documentation for sessions.

Likewise you could also log the timestamp when they visit the site, then compare that with the last hit from the current IP address, and not log a hit if the difference between the two values is smaller than some predefined length of time of your choosing (like 5 minutes, or whatever).

Erestar

NZ_Kiwi

Originally posted by Erestar
If you use a session and only log a hit when a new session is created it should work the way you want.

Check the php.net documentation for sessions.

Likewise you could also log the timestamp when they visit the site, then compare that with the last hit from the current IP address, and not log a hit if the difference between the two values is smaller than some predefined length of time of your choosing (like 5 minutes, or whatever).

Erestar

Some of my pages are pages which use sessions so i can not use that!!

I guess I have to add a timestamp and compare if before it adds anothers user.... how would i insert a time stamp?

Erestar

I'd just add a meniumint field to the database called TimeVisited, and then when you log the IP address, call time() in PHP for the TimeVisited field.

To get it out, just do a select and order by TimeVisited in decending order, take the first row from the result set that matches the IP addres, and compare that value with the current time.

Erestar

PS. Sorry, on my way out... This was kinda rushed 😉

NZ_Kiwi

Originally posted by Erestar
I'd just add a meniumint field to the database called TimeVisited, and then when you log the IP address, call time() in PHP for the TimeVisited field.

To get it out, just do a select and order by TimeVisited in decending order, take the first row from the result set that matches the IP addres, and compare that value with the current time.

Erestar

PS. Sorry, on my way out... This was kinda rushed 😉

Okay everyone :-)

I'll make all this and insert it as a include file!

1/ I'll run a few lines getting all info like the page the user was on, what OS they are using and what page they came from.... then i'll get the IP.

2/ Run a query from the datebase and match the IP, if I get a match then check the time, if there is a a IP within 5 minutes then exit the code.

3/ If not then carry on and insert all the info i go into my database..

Right this is where i might need help, how do i do step 2?? what what is a example of this code.... i have no idea