Hit Counter for a free site 1

[ramani]

Hi

How to create and show a hits counter with the following requirement.

1. The counting should not use third party links or spaces or engines or whatever and should be self contained.

2. I saw by searching here in one of the threads, that a Windows scripting used. I am not sure if that will work if a Linux box accesses the site. The point is that the counting should take place irrespective of a Windows Box or Mac Box or Linux Box access the site.

3. I am a beginner in Web publishing and I need a step by step guide to implement the suggestion.

Thanks in advance for suggestions.

ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

You need some type of server-side language, (Perl, PHP, Coldfusion, ASP etc)

If you give us an idea of what languages you can use then there are loads of free scripts out there that will do this for you.

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.cheapcomputer.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[ramani]

Hi Wullie,

Everything is Greek and Latin to me, right at this moment. (I am English speaking!).

A web search showed similar languages and scripts. And that is the reason I put that here. As a novice, may be I am asking for too much.

I will get back to you soon. Thanks.

ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Are you going to continue to host the site on coolfreepages?

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.cheapcomputer.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Just found the following, assuming you are staying on the same server you mentioned in the other thread, you should be able to use PHP and MYSQL.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/6/0.php

If you have any questions or problems, just ask.

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.cheapcomputer.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[ramani]

Hi Wullie,

I am not going to bind myself with any free space hosting site as of now. That needs a careful plan again. But to start with, I just put in my web in that site. Who knows, it may continue in that place as a second source, so long that remains a free hosting site.

Your note that we need some type of server-side language, (Perl, PHP, Coldfusion, ASP etc) is an eye opener to me. I believed, we can do something without any heavy program to do that using HTML code. Now I realise another language is required.

Thanks for the interest taken. I will be away from computer most part of next 12 hours, unless last minute changes take place. So will let you know on your suggestions later on. Thanks again.


ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

HTML is a static language, you can display things but you are pretty much limited to that.

To do any kind of interaction with the server (storing information etc) then you need to use a server-side language.

HTML can be used to pass information to the server side script and is also used to output any results from the server-side script but it isn't designed to allow you to interact directly.

For example, to ask a user to complete a form and then e-mail the details to you, this can be done with pure HTML but you then need to use the clients mail program to send the data by e-mail. This causes huge problems if the person does not have a default mail client set-up on their machine.

The best way to do this is to create an HTML form, then when they click submit, you pass that data to a server-side script so that it can process the data. You would then use HTML to format the thank you page that is sent back to the user.

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.cheapcomputer.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[Bullschmidt]

If you change your mind and don't mind third-party stuff anymore, here is a nice tracker that can tell you a lot of info about the users of your site:

Free tracker from eXTReMe digital

http://www.extreme-dm.com

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt - Freelance ASP Web Developer

http://www.Bullschmidt.com

- Creating "dynamic" Web pages that read and write from databases...

 

[ramani]

Thanks for the replies. Considering the debug I am doing on the existing few pages created and the time availability, I will be able to introduce this after a few days only. And If I get into trouble on this, I will get back to this thread.

Thanks again.


ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com