PHP Counters Simple MySQL PHP Hit Counter Tutorial

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Tutorial: PHP Counters Simple MySQL PHP Hit Counter Tutorial

A very simple hit counter that tracks visits per site. Also a basic introduction to Session Management.

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Simple MySQL PHP Hit Counter

Ok, so you've got a PHP and MySQL driven website. You don't want to install a complicated hit counter, but you do want to have a way to quickly view what kind of traffic your website is getting. Without making things too complicated and building a whole new database, you can do this easily without creating a large database just for website hits with numerous rows for each hit.

We want to have a method of counting the number "sessions" for the visits on your website. It is not practical to add 1 to your count for every page view each time the user clicks on a web page inside your site. Your counter would skyrocket rather quickly and it's sort of cheating your results.

Some webmasters like to see that counter climb quickly, but personally, I don't. I would rather know how many visitors are coming to my site, not how many page views are being displayed. Now that I have stated my opinions, I will show you how to build a simple hit counter.

For this hit counter we are going to use MySQL, PHP and PHP's awesome built in support for sessions. I want to stress the avoidance of cookies for something like this because you are going to be forcing this upon each user's browser and the world of Microsoft users are shifting towards Internet Explorer 6 which has created some great headaches for webmasters that like to use cookies.

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