Re: Counter

Thanks for your reply mark, but they want to see the counter actually incrementing whilst the user is on the site... "Mark Douglas" <Mark.Douglas@Q9.com> wrote in message news:05924A4A9DEDAD46A21EE3C8C64B090D02B6CDC6@cheetah.zoo.q9networks.com... > 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