Hit counter

[ChumChum]

I haven't checked this board in about a week so it may have come up but is there a development for a hit counter embedded in the page? I use the board as my main page and I will prolly just add one some how bbut I was jsut wondering.

[Godai]

Is not difficult to do, but why? you can just use a stat service added in template....

[Greg Robson]

I'd rather not use a third party for the counter, not with YaBB SE being so fast and all.

[irbrian]

Here's how I'd do it (bear in mind I'm no PHP whiz). I'd make a function somewhere called "counterShow" and one called "counterIncrement" or something, and just execute the counterIncrement function when the board index is loaded (or when the user logs in, or whatever). Then at the precise location you want the counter to show up, just execute counterShow.

The Show function of course, reads the value stored in a variable like $counterHits, while the Increment function increments the variable. Very, very simple stuff in PHP. Of course, you also have to store that somewhere... probably in your database.

Just a thought for those who understand PHP/MySQL a little: It'd be a good idea to figure out a way to use an existing MySQL query to read and write the data to the table, if at all possible, rather than creating a new one; my understanding is, anytime you run a new query it uses up server resources and can slow down your board, whereas "piggybacking" or accessing the results of an existing query simply uses the information already stored in memory and does use more system resources.

This is something simple I could easily do if I had the time or motivation to do it.

[Webby]

Make a file called teller.php in your YaBBSE directory :

<?php
$user = file("teller.log");
$user = $user[0];
$user++;
$file = fopen("teller.log", "r+");
fwrite($file, $user);
fclose($file);
echo $user;
?>

And also an empty file (or with just 0 in it) called teller.log (chmod 666)

Than call this in your YaBBSE template with :

[ Total hits since 15-01-2002 is : <? include ("teller.php"); ?>]

You can see it in action on my board.........

[Greg Robson]

Could you make a mod of it?

[Godai]

Very nice

[Webby]

Sure  

It is not all that much is it  

I will try to make it a mod  

[Godai]

You can add a template tag such <yabb_counter>

[Greg Robson]

Sounds great!

[Webby]

You can add a template tag such <yabb_counter>

Eeehmmmm.....how can I do that ?

I'm not familiar with writing mod's, so maybe you can put this tiny yabbon in a tiny package   ?!

[Godai]

Ok, i'm adding it to my task list

[Webby]

Guess it would take you about 5 minutes or so ?

I'd like to have an own "mod"   LOL !

This is one of the easiest "mods" I've ever seen, isn't it  

[Godai]

I need time, because i'm at work and don't know when i can do it

[Webby]

I'm at work too, so I understand