Number of Downloads

hi, the only language I know is HTML but I can read php and some other stuff. is there a particular code or script to use to get the number of times a file has been downloaded....thanks!

 

You will need php or some other server side lang and sql, basically it just numerically increases a column in a database. A google search for "download count script" comes up with tons of them, like: http://www.phpjunkyard.com/php-click-counter.php.

You'll need php installed as well as mysql. Hope that helps =]

 

You can actually make it store this "number of downloads" in a file

for example

the download link will be

www.mysite.com/download.php

and the php code on that download.php will be

<?php
$count = file_get_contents("counter.txt");
$new = (int)$count + 1;
file_put_contents("counter.txt",$new);
header('Location: http://www.sitename.com/file.exe');
?>

PHP:

so every time somebody goes to the download.php, the counter goes up one, and they then download the file

then you just use this code to display your counter

<?php echo "Number of Downloads: " . file_get_contents("counter.txt"); ?>

PHP:

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