PHP Hit Counter

[Shaun Dreclin]

Yeah, I keep going around and seeing people say how simple it is! Then I look at the socalled tutorial, and it makes absolutely no sense -_-;

So anyways, how do I make a text counter that goes up by one every time sombody veiws the page?

From the beginning please, ive never used PHP before..

(Im building my site with frontpage)

[JackTruong]

You'll need to understand some basic SQL for a hit counter.

[md]

You don't need sql at all! It's simplest to use one but it's definitely not needed; a simple file will do. As for how exactly it's done I can think of a few ways but I don't really want to write the code for you.

[wtd]

Cornflake wrote:

You don't need sql at all! It's simplest to use one but it's definitely not needed; a simple file will do.

Or a combination of the two: SQLite.

[Shaun Dreclin]

Blarg


Alright, I dont know what SQL or whatever you called it is.. So uhm, who wants to be nice and forward the dumbass (being me) to a tutorial of some sort?

[rdrake]

The first hit for "SQL tutorial" on Google gave me this. Also, a search on Google for PHP tutorial gave me this.

[JSBN]

if you dont care about unique Vs repeat users, just create a text file and everytime someone visits the site, get that number and increase it. then re-write the file.