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"Anybody can help to deal with scripting and cgi-bin ? Thanks a lot!"

How to put scripting into cgi-bin in order to receive reply from site visitors?
I tried many time and got FormMail scripting from open source, but it just doesn't work, pls help!

A Lot of people who make their own pages don't wanna know what browsers people used on their Site, and all that, just how many people appear to visit in.

Another interesting point.

Why do people use hit-counters on their sites? Do they serve any use? I don't know of any major sites (bbc, sky, freeola, mingers) that use them.

On my personal site, I use a www.sitemeter.com one. But that gives me things like browser/country/ip addx/OS breakdowns, that are helpful to me. For instance roughly only 8% of my visiters use Netscape so I don't concentrate on writing for that browser so much.

But I don't know why stand alone hit-counters are so popular. They don't actually do anything.

If I were you, I'd dump the cgi Counter, and use a PHP one, heres the code I use, Courtesy of Freeola themselves ... it'll do all the work for you:
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You are visitor no.
$counterstyle = "image";
$height = "19";
$width = "15";
$hitsfile = "";
$images = "Images/Counter";
if (!$hitsfile) $hitsfile = dirname(__FILE__)."/hits";
if (!$images) $images = dirname(__FILE__)."/images";
$images = str_replace($DOCUMENT_ROOT, "", $images);
if(file_exists($hitsfile) == TRUE) {
$hits = file($hitsfile);
$hits = $hits[0] + 1;
} else {
$hits = 1;
}
$fp = fopen($hitsfile, "w");
fwrite($fp, $hits);
if ($counterstyle == "text") {
print "$hits";
} else {
$digit = strval($hits);
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($hits); $i++) {
print "";
}
}
?> to this site.

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copy and paste it wherever you want it to appear on your page, and make sure that the page you have the code in ends with .php, instead of .html .htm .cgi etc...

hope that helps.

CJH, I'm having problems setting up a counter with my CGI-bin, I use freeola. Could you help, thanks?

Annn: I've sent it, hope it works ok for you. :o)

Before I send it, do you know anything about PHP and HTML??

Hi cjh

yes, I love to get your mail script. pls mailto:[email protected]
Thanks a lot!

Annn wrote:

Hi ajg, tks for your email and that's very useful.
About that good article, do you think I can read it on the net?


ajg wrote:
> Just found a very good article in the Dec edition of PC Pro (in the Real World,
> server side programming section) on exactly this - pitfalls of using open mail
> relays.

Very interesting actually, worth a read...

I've got a mail Script if you want it, just pop your E-mail Address down here, and I'll send it.
It includes validation, so people can't send blank messages :o).

Just found a very good article in the Dec edition of PC Pro (in the Real World, server side programming section) on exactly this - pitfalls of using open mail relays.

Very interesting actually, worth a read...