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.

Dj_Jestar · 21 Jul 2007 at 15:48

Are all hit counters PHP?

No.

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..

meghatronic · 21 Jul 2007 at 16:09

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

Easiest? http://www.google.com/analytics/.

http://www.statcounter.com/ is fun too.

Failing that, for really simple solutions:
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/PHP/Counters/1

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

meghatronic · 21 Jul 2007 at 16:30

gord said:
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

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

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.

unwashed potato! · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:12

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

wow you genius, wish i had known this ages ago as the amount of times i have had to change every single page and every single link from html to php. you have just saved me so much annoying work, thankyou

meghatronic · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:40

Mammalian said:
wow you genius, wish i had known this ages ago as the amount of times i have had to change every single page and every single link from html to php. you have just saved me so much annoying work, thankyou

I accept VISA/Mastercard and Cheques.

You could also change .htm/l using search replace intra-document and use something like ruby/dos even (ruby/bash on mac) to change every *.htm --> .php but my way is easier.

Clarkey · 22 Jul 2007 at 02:23

not the best way though, passing every .html page through the PHP interpreter will waste a whole lot of CPU cycles, considered that just about every .html file except for your mad php concoction is static html and requires no interpretation by the server.

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?

RobH · 22 Jul 2007 at 19:43

I don't think there are many security issues with a simple counter. PHP is server-side scripting unlike javascript which is clientside. The main vunerabilities in PHP come when user-supplied data is used such as a form.