Good morning

is there anyway that we can know how many people for example click in our homepage?

(I have link that is for the stream (.ram) and i want to know how many people click on that link.)

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Mani

Instead of linking directly to the .ram file you should link to a php page in a way like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/dir/counter.php?file=stream.ram

Have the PHP file check if a file exists called $_GET['file'].".txt" and if it doesn't, create it with the number "1" in it (to show that the stream has been clicked once). If $_GET['file'].".txt" does exist, have it get the number inside, increment it, and save the file.

hth,

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
Where will you be in 100 years?

Also don't forget to redirect the user to the file!

header("Location: ".$_GET['file']);

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
Where will you be in 100 years?

Hi Snib - Merry Xmass to all

in your example you told me to check the file if it exists. i did not understand the .txt part.
(that means i store the name of the stream files in my mysql database so is not it better to check on my database)

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Mani

I think Snib is suggesting using using the .txt file as a counter (the file that stores the number of hits a file has got).

Eg: To store the number of times someone plays snowball.ram, make a file called snowball.ram.txt which counts the number of times people play snowball.ram.

Just make sure you have an "allowed files" array, containing all the files that people are allowed to download otherwise people could do something like this: ...?file=/etc/passwd, which would create a file called /etc/passwd.txt. They wouldn't be able to *see* the /etc/passwd file, but they could make loads of annoying text files all over your filesystem (this is of course depending on what privileges php is running with - php would probably not be able to write in the .etc folder, it was just the first file that came to mind).

Cheers

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