Thanks and and Update

artnow — Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:08:58 +0000

I appreciate all the help. What I have done in the past few days is get myself my own domain name and I am getting it hosted on a server that has all the bells and whistles including PHP, CGI and more.

I will get back to this issue once I finish transfering things over and getting an idea of what PHP, CGI and the rest can do.

Thanks again for all your help!

Bob

Lloyd Hassell — Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:45:52 +0000

If your server supports CGI then I suggest asking for help in the CGI forum. I am sure someone there has a free hit counter script you can use. If your server supports ASP I can help you out.

Vincent Puglia — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:42:38 +0000

Hi artnow,

Alright, I'm still not sure, but...

To count the hits, you need to use a counter somewhere along the line -- either where it's leaving or where it ends up. And the only real counters are cgi/server.

If we're agreed on that, you can determine where they come from with:

switch (document.referrer)
{
case "somepage.html":
....some code to call counter1....
break;
case "somepage2.html":
....some code to call counter1....
break;
...etc...
default:
....some code to call counter1....
}

But, even the above is better handled by cgi.

I've a feeling this isn't what you need, but what the hay --gave it a stab anyway.

Vinny

I should have mentioned ....

artnow — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:30:08 +0000

Thanks for your reply.

I should have mentioned that I am trying to track the hits from my opt-in newletter.

I place a link http://www.members.home.net/contesthound/spotlight/LinkName.htm and this page (LinkName) is the page that redirects to the appropriate affiliate site.

In hindsight, that would be an important detail LOL.

HitBox incidently is a free tracking service that asks you to place a small ad of theirs in exchange for tracking.

Thanks again.

Bob

Vincent Puglia — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:19:56 +0000

Hi,

Other than its name, I'm not familiar with HitBox. You're trying to count the redirects from the original page? Why don't you simply put a different counter on the redirected page? If you want to know how many hits for each site, you can do the subtraction manually -- orgPageCount - redirectPageCount

Vinny