[olug] Web Site Page Hit Couter

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

edcarlsen at cox.net wrote:

>This is probably an old topic, but I could use some input.
>I am managing (webmaster?) a web site for my church, www.stleo.net. (volunteer, of course)
>It is running on Mandrake 9.0, with Apache including PHP and MySQL database.
>
>It started as a simple two or three page website but has grown to 10 to 12 different pages.
>I have a web page hit counter running in PHP and storing data in the MySQL database but it only keeps track of total hits to any page.
>I would like a (free) PHP script that can keep track of hits to an individual page and display hits per page. Like, number of hits to the "Links" page is xxxx.
>I do not want a third party server for tracking hits and I am just getting familiar with PHP and MySQL.
>
>Any suggestions?
>  
>
Hit counters that are visible on the page are so mid-90s.

If you want to reliably track visits to the site, just use the log file, 
and use analog <www.analog.cx> to produce some reports.  More 
comprehensive than a counter script would be.

Tim

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