PHP Counter

[cardine]

Does anybody know of a counter that would track www.blah.com/index.php?username=people as a different website as www.blah.com/index.php?username=yes.
The one i use tracks them as the same page.
Thanks

[nirus]

Why don't you write an if statement that checks the value of ?username= and writes to files depending on what it is... people or yes.

if ($_GET['username'] == "people"){
    //fopen people.dat
    //grab it's contents
    //add 1 to it
    //fclose people.dat
  }
else if ($_GET['username'] == "yes"){
    //fopen yes.dat
    //grab it's contents
    //add 1 to it
    //fclose yes.dat
  }
else {
   echo "Um, index.php was called directly or index.php?username=_____ was not in the URL";
}

After this... when ever you want to see the counter number just get file contents of people.dat or yes.dat. If you want total... just add the 2 files.
-Nirus

[cardine]

But I'm (hopefully) going to have hundreds of different usernames that are being tracked. Then I'd also have to manually add another block of code each time somebody signs up. I'm looking for for a graphical counter so each different member knows how many visitors they have gotten to their website (for tracking).

[Xnuiem]

Got rid of the double post for you.

Use a database.

The table only needs two fields username and count

Then on each page, check to see if the username is in the table, and if not, add it, then add one to the count.

It isnt letting me post the example.........

[cardine]

It won't let me post the code; but I think I've gotten it to work (with the database). Is there anyway (with cookies maybe) to make the counter unique as opposed to pageviews?

Thanks!

EDIT: I uploaded the main part of the MySQL code (in html so you can see the source). Here it is: MySQL Code

[Xnuiem]

sure. set a cookie and check it on each page view. Create it with a certain time to expire.