Counting pageviews

[sidsel]

I have a site with different galleries uploaded by people. I want to count pageviews to each gallery, no problem in that.

But since the every thumb in every gallery open a jpg image in a browser I get a lot "back button" pageviews added to the total count of pageviews. I could of course open every picture in a new window but I would prefer not to.

Any good advice how to prevent page views increase if people are using their back button?

[benbox]

You could either keep a record of which images have been viewed in a session (meaning it would only count once per opening/closing of browser),

Or in a cookie, which would count only one computer once every.. depending on how you set it up, when to expire etc.

I'd personally do the session one, meaning you could set up an array to keep in a $_SESSION variable.. call it viewed, or something.. and just add the ID of the image to it when it's viewed.. and beforehand say, increase the view count only if it doesn't exist in the array variable