RE: [PHP] Counter

I'm not awake enough to provide example code, but something like this should work: - Set a base date - Set a base counter value - Get the current date, subtract base date, gives you number of days since start of counter - multiple number of days since start of counter by 7000 - add this value to base counter value, giving you start of day value - divide 86400 by 7000 to give number of seconds that needs to pass to increment value - count number of seconds that has passed in the day, divide by number of seconds to increment, giving todays current addition to counter - add current addition to start of day value Voila, you have a piece of code that you can put in a header/footer on every page and will be different every time a user loads a page. This is asssuming you're just going on the 7000/day value, and not actually caring about the real number of units sold. I hope that didn't confuse too much. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Shaun [mailto:shaun@mania.plus.com] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:13 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Counter Hi, I have a client who wants a counter on their site showing a number which rises by 7000 a day and visibly clocks up whilst a user is on the site. This is meant to show the number of products they sell a a day. I'm just not sure how this would work though, would i have to store the ammount in a database, how would it increment whilst no one is one the site. Thanks for your help -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php