Hit Counters

[Tim]

Just wondering if there is any way to have a hit counter
that counts the hits on another page. i.e. the site that
I have to develop has a project team section that is
password protected. Is there any way to show the counter
on that page, but count the hits for the homepage?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[Steve Easton]

Yes it can be done.
The only drawback is that the
counter on the "project page" will also include
the hits for the homepage.
It would require a "hidden" counter on the
homepage that increments the counter for "project."
However, when "project" is opened and displays the hits
it's going to add 1 to the count.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so here goes:
in addition to individual page counters,
www.95isalive.com has a hidden counters on all main pages
"except the home" page that increment a counter file named total.htm.cnt
which is
in the _private folder with the other counter files.
The counter image is not displayed because it is a 1 pixel by 1 pixel gif
named custom.gif that is basically "invisible"
The total count is displayed on
www.95isalive.com/total.htm ( the Statistics page )

hth