[MX] Hit Counter (No CGI or PERL etc..)

[Keith130]

Is there a way to make a hit counter in flash without anyscripting apart from ActionScript?

[senocular]

not for very long

[Keith130]

What do you mean not for very long?

[senocular]

as in the only hit counter you would have would be for the current person viewing the site and only for the time they were there. You could make a counter to check how many times they've visted a section, but outside of that, its gone

You could use the Shared object to do further counting for that one viewer - for every time they came back to the site, but it wouldnt account for other peole

the short of it is no.

[Keith130]

So because I use brinkster would it be possible to use an ASP page that reads from a db or something?

[Jubba]

yes

[Delsaber]

Of couse you can use ASP and Flash to make a counter. I don't know how to yet, as I have just acquired the Flash MX program.

[Raydred]

basically you would use the send method to a url... then in your asp script you save the hits somehow, and then you would call that script to get the hits using the loadVars method... =)

thats the idea =)

i could write a flash example for you, but i use ASP.net , not ASP.. but i can show you the flash AS you'll need.


look at this first. Its in "Php" but the same princpals apply the actionscript will be basically the same. =)

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asandphp.htm

[Keith130]

I use ASP.NET too but I can never get any of my scripts to work on brinkster. Im not very good at ASP though so do you know anything about it?

[Raydred]

do you upload the bin directory to the server? and is that direcory a virtual directory running >net applications? thats why it might not be working.

remember your code behind (if you use it) gets compiled into the dll in the bin dir of your project.

[Keith130]

Do you use Viusal Studio .NET? I use Web Matrix and it doesnt have a bin directory created?