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bettyfordclinic
5-23-02, 07:01 PM
Hi all!!!

Basically, I want to use Cookies to track visitors to my site. I've tried to google a solution to this, but no joy. My hosting options (with another host, though I host with PowWeb too) show the ability to show visitors based on "cookies" but gives no other options, and my web app gives various options for reading and writing cookies, but I'm still lost as top how I should implement them.

Anyone???

bfc
bettyfordclinic
5-25-02, 08:25 PM
nobody configures their site with cookies???

come on you pros!!! spill the beans!!!

bfc :)
Habib
6-7-02, 07:38 PM
May be this would help??

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/cookiecount.html
bettyfordclinic
6-7-02, 08:07 PM
Yes. Yes it does.

I had a preliminary look and will experiment with it more tomorrow.

Many Thanks!!!

bfc :)
davidj
6-9-02, 01:35 PM
<i>I want to use Cookies to track visitors to my site</i>

I don't really understand this statement. Tracking visitors to your site is easily and greatly done via the free webstats add-on from powweb.

If you want to track individual visitors to your site and show them locally how often they have visited your page, then cookies are the way to go.

first though, tell me for sure what it is you are trying to track.

Thanks!

i love http://www.pyrotomountain.com
bettyfordclinic
6-9-02, 07:35 PM
I was mostly interested in seeing repeat users. I'm aware of how many visits I'm getting, but was more interested in whether or not people were actually coming back. My access logs are huge (site has 2500 images on seperate html pages with index thumb pages), so cookies seemed a possibility.

tricky info....

bfc
davidj
6-9-02, 11:03 PM
The purpose of cookies is to store information locally. If you want to do what you are talking about with webstats, I would like at php and mysql, if you paid the 30 bucks.

If you wanted to get a little crazy, you could write individual text files when your visitor hits, maybe by IP.

I think if you are trying to find the simplest way to do this, you should start by dropping cookies and let's start by looking at php, that is free and ready to run.
bettyfordclinic
6-10-02, 09:05 AM
PHP is something I've quickly looked at before, and been very impressed by. But there is a chance that if this process involves too much involvement, I might direct my attentions to other things on my "do this for the site" list. I thought is was possible to set up a simple script using cookies, but it seems (from here and other research) that I was a little wrong on this one!!!

bfc