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Arnim
Posted: Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:01:48 PM

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Hello!

I searched the forum but couldn't find a single entry about a visitor counter - so maybe its a dumb question?

Anyway: Is there a (simple) solution for showing a visitor counter on my webpage? I don't want to depend on "offshore-solutions", but an Umbraco only attemp.

Any ideas where to start? Any ready to uses packages around? ;-)


Thanx, Arnim.
What the heck is PHP? ;-)
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tim
Posted: Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:43:35 PM

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Sure a visitor counter would be possible.

Don't think there is a package for that.

Sow how could you create a counter.

-Step 1 where to store the visits:
Create a property visits on the document type
or store the visits in a new db table


-Step 2 update the visits on page load
Best way to do this is to use base and ajax
http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/introduction-to-base

Or you could install umbraco stats ... and create a usercontrol that gets the visits ..
http://umbracostats.umbraco.net/

Cheers,
Tim
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jHodgkinson
Posted: Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:12:37 PM
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Tim - if you even turn the stats on via web.config, wouldn't that even start logging all the necessary info... then a cacheable dal component would just need to be written to return and output the unique visitor count and then plugged into a control via a macro... and you probably could get fancy with this via .NET graphics library (System.Drawing namespace) or better yet, Doug Robar's "ImageGen":

http://www.percipientstudios.com/imagegen/overview.aspx
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tim
Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:10:43 PM

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Haven't tried that but should be possible
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