The way this counter works is it creates a cookie on the user's computer with their IP and it updates the count according to the status of that cookie. If the cookie is present and the IP in the cookie is the same as the user's current IP then the script knows the user has already been there and it does nothing or if it is present, but has an IP different than the user's current IP or is not present the script knows that the user is either new or was there before, but the cookie has expired so it then updates the count. This script will be using the setcookie() function, which must be sent before any headers are sent. Basically what that means is that it must be placed before any HTML. The count will be held in a text file for ease of use but if you desire to use a database that is perfectly acceptable.

This website is dedicated to building your own PHP Counter. If you are a beginner php programmer or you do not want to waste time reinventing the wheel, this is the resource you need. To install the script in your website, all you have to do is to include this counter on every page of your website, or on pages you want this counter to be on.I've prepared for you three types of styles for you to choose. Overwrite the type you like over the default type. If you do not like any of those styles you can build your own styles. You will need 10 gif files, with picture of numbers from 0 to 9. If you build your own fonts is a wise decision to create your gifs with transparency. In that case the fonts will be displayed nicely on every page, with any background color. If you do not use transparency then your background colour of your gif font images must be the same of your website background color.

Learn the basics of making a simple text-based hit counter. Full code is included.

Learn how to make a text counter in PHP. A counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to PHP and be able to chmod a directory. We're going to save the amount of hits in a .dat file, so you don't even need a mySQL database. First off, you have create a directory and CHMOD it 777 so PHP can write the counter.dat file.

Create a simple counter that tracks visitor sessions so that each unique visitor is counted only once. Does not require database.

This tutorial provides instruction for integrating MySQL functionality with PHP's GD image manipulation support to serve graphical Web page counters. A client Web page needing a graphical counter calls the serving PHP script file using a simple image tag in static HTML. The PHP script file is defined as the image tag's source file. When called, the script interfaces with MySQL and with the file system to track and serve a graphical page counter to the Web page.

Learn how to add upload a file using the power of PHP. This script will explain how to display the number of users online using your website. You have to put this on everypage you want it to appear.

Use this tutorial to logg where your getting all your hits from and find out what the strong points on your site must be

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.

Create a simple hit counter whithout using a MySQL database. It runs using a simple txt file.