Adding A Hit Counter To Your Pages

We have made a page Hit Counter available to our users for use on their own web pages.

Installation of the counter is very simple.


The counter is accessed like any normal graphic image. 

 <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/nph-count?link=xxxxxx">
NOTE
You MUST replace the xxxxxx with your login name.

For example, if support had a counter it would read; 

 <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/nph-count?link=support">
You may cut and paste this example into your own homepage or add it manually.

Options:(advanced options, use of these are not required, only the examples above are the minimum needed.)

Usage Remember Replace all the xxxxxx in the examples below to your username when installing or using them.

Important!!!!! Read and understand the advanced options BEFORE you try to use them.

  1. Which arguments are accepted by the program ?
    The following arguments are currently recognized:
    • width=number
      Specifies the number of digits in the resulting image.
    • link=The name of the user.
      The username is used to keep track of a certain counter. It should be unique for each counter.
    • increase=number; default 1
      Specifies the number by which the counter should be increased. This can be used to check how many times a certain page was visited without increasing the counter. In that case specify increase=0.
      Resetting a certain counter is also possible this way by specifying a negative number here.
    • show=NO
      In case you would like to keep track of the number of accesses to a certain page without showing the counter image, specify the above argument.

  2. What to add in a HTML-page ?
    To activate a counter in a certain HTML-page add something like the following:
    < IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/nph-count?arg1=value1&arg2=value2&arg3=value3">
    where arg1,2,3 are any of the supported arguments.
    NOTE: do not specify the debug argument inside a HTML-page.

  3. How to keep track of a page without anybody knowing ?
    In the page you would like to monitor insert something like the following:
    < IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/nph-count?link=xxxxxx&show=NO">
    and on a different HTML-page where you would like the check the counter regularly:
    < IMG SRC="http://www.pil.net/cgi-bin/nph-count?link=xxxxxx&increase=0">

  4. How to reset a certain counter to zero ?
    If you would like to reset a counter to zero, check the counter value and the link argument you used in a HTML-page and open the following URL directly (i.e. by typing it in, in the 'open URL' box):
    http://www.pil.net/cgi-bin/nph-count?link=xxxxxx&increase=-value
    This will reset the counter to zero (note: the counter value can not go negative).

  5. What's the size of the resulting output image ?
    The program will return a GIF-image of 20 pixels high and 15 * width pixels wide. This can used to your advantage by specifying the HEIGHT and WIDTH inside the HTML-page. By doing this, during retrieval of the page, the WWW-browser can allocate space for the image while displaying the remainder of the page.
    Example:
    < IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/nph-count?width=5&link=xxxxxx" WIDTH=75 HEIGHT=20>