Re: Count

Afterthought -- you could make this self-maintaining by doing a select for $PHP_SELF and inserting the record if mysql_num_rows() returned 0. Downside is that it would add greatly to the overhead. Miles At 04:42 PM 1/16/2002 -0400, Miles Thompson wrote:

Barry, Before leaping to the wrong conclusion, what exactly do you want to count? You can derive the number of times a page has been fetched from your web logs. Alternately, you could add a table to your database, and at the top of the page the link points to, after you've established your database connection, etc.: $sql_count = "update page_count set views = views + 1 where page = '$PHP_SELF' "; mysql_query( $sql_count ); You'll have to add a record for each page to the database, and by now you know how to create tables etc. Justwatch out for reserved words and function names; when I first typed the query I used "count" in place of page_count. "Views" and "page" probably aren't such a hot choices either. Fetching the counts for the pages involves nothing more than issuing "select * from page_count" and you'll have a per page count of all the clicks to each page. Miles At 08:07 AM 1/17/2002 +1300, Barry Rumsey wrote:

How do you add a count feature to a link. I can get stuff from the db but want to know how many times it's been read or click on?

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