I have a webpage made and wanted to insert a counter, any suggestiions on where to start.


NewfieBullet

Is the counter used to store the number of viewing the page? More details.

yes i have a webpage that we are piloting and wanted to see how many hits that we will recived. i like to make my own.

Newfiebullet

You have two options here,

You can use the FSO Object to store the page count in a file.

Or like me who does not have access to the FSO Object due to security reasons you could create a tiny database to store the counter.

a relatively standard way of managing it is to set up an application variable to record the number of hits.

Each time the page is rendered you increment the counter with a function.

Then you need to decide when and how you want to capture the count.

You could use the application onend event to write it out to file (and the application onstart to prime it) or you could use some other method. Generally I will record the count every 10 minutes or 30 minutes or similar so that if the application does not end correctly you don't loose all your counts.

Perment storage of the data could be to the file system as a basic text file or a db or something similar, but it would depend on what you have access to.

Does that help?

The simple way is to set an application variable of the counter which is incremented by 1 when the page is hit:

Application("Counter") = Application("Counter") + 1

In this case, you cannot restart your IIS or your web server since it loses the number stored in application variable. You can create a specific page to view the counter.

or you can read this page and try it the other way:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ngpagehits.asp