Counting clicks

[DFX]

Hi,

Im making a website so I can host my own DJ mixes. I was wondering if there was a counter that counts how many clicks so I can display it on the page.

So it looks like this:

March Mix
Listen [amount of users listened: 28]

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Tabula Rasa]

try this:
http://www.spoono.com/tutorials/php/tracker/

youl need to alter this a bit to suite your goal (call out the numbers of clicks from the mysql database to be displayed to the public and such)

maybe someone else will offer something more specific for your goal.

 

[DFX]

MySQL isn't an option Im afraid. Is there anyway I can use a .txt file or something similar?

 

[SPeedY_B]

Your page
<a href="dlmix.php?download=mix.mp3">mix.mp3</a> downloaded <?include("mix.txt");?> times

dlmix.php
<?php
if (file_exists("mix.txt")) {
$file = fopen("mix.txt", "r+");
flock($file, 1);
$count = fgets($file, 4096);
$count += 1;
fseek($file,0);
fputs($file,$count);
flock($file, 3);
fclose($file);
}
header("location: $download");
?>


I think that will work, I haven't tried it tho..

 

[SPeedY_B]

Ok, changed it about a bit, added a function to make it easier

The Page

<?php 
function download($download) { print "
<a href=\"download.php?download=$download\">Listen</a><br><b> ";
include("$download.txt");
print "</b> people listened so far";
}
?>
//content
March Mix - <? download("audio/march.mp3"); ?>
<br>
April Mix - <? download("audio/april.mp3"); ?>

//content

download.php

<?php
if (file_exists("$download.txt")) {
$file = fopen("$download.txt", "r+");
flock($file, 1);
$count = fgets($file, 4096);
$count += 1;
fseek($file,0);
fputs($file,$count);
flock($file, 3);
fclose($file);
}
else print "Invalid download specified";
break;
header("location: $download");
?>

Now all you need is to aim the download(); function at a file, and have another file in the same directory with the same name and the addition of a .txt extension
example :
download.php?download=audio/blah.mp3
you will require audio/blah.mp3.txt to exist.