Are all hit counters PHP?

gord · 21 Jul 2007 at 15:42

As title really?

If i want a nice hit-counter on a site, something i can customise and not one of those sign-up jobbys does it want to be PHP.

gord · 21 Jul 2007 at 16:06

Right, well, im on hot-scripts.. whats the easiest way to implement a hit counter? basically just text really is all i want..

gord · 21 Jul 2007 at 16:14

Hmm, those stat sites appear overkill for my needs and the tutorials im seeing there appear to be PHP, which im quite happy to use, but does mean a lot of link changes.

cheers for the help

gord · 21 Jul 2007 at 17:21

jdickerson said:
Link changes as all your files end in .htm/html?

You can set apache up to treat html as .php

Plunk the following into your .htaccess file:

Code:

RemoveHandler .html .htm AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

Tada: http://www.desilva.biz/php/phpinhtml.html

Interesting, thanks very much.

gord · 22 Jul 2007 at 11:11

I was thinking about using something like this.

http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/text-counter/378

However, does something like that pose any security risks to a website? Im not entirely aware of the loopholes that using PHP can bring, but only know that there are some.

What should i do if i want to make that secure?