VISITORS

[Anon]

Hello.
I want to put in my site a
"number of visitors in site"

its not a counter
it goes like this
when visitor enter to the site it make
+1 when he leave the site it makes -1

I have this script in asp but i need it on php3.

10X

[Anon]

Interesting; what kind of event are you tying to
to get the "visitor leaves the site"?

[Anon]

I dont know..

[Anon]

You're in trouble then, since with the stateless
nature of http, the hard part of what you're
wanting to do isn't the coding, but rather trying
to trick up some way of determining when someone
is no longer "on your site".

[Anon]

You could use cookies and a database. When a user get's to your page, you see the cookie and put an entry in the database with the userid and the current time. Then on each page the user visits that you want to track, it would have to update the time when the page loads. When you want to show how many people are currently looking at your site, you do an query and count all of the entries that are under 5 minutes old. Here's where the stateless part comes in. You'd be assuming that if they didn't visit a new page in 5 minutes, they must of left your site. It should give you an idea, though. You could probably use sessions instead of cookies, too.

Hopefully that gives you an idea...

---John Holmes...