How to add a counter to your page
Credit
This page contains a stripped down version of the
available documentation for webcounter. It contains everything you
will need to set a counter on your page. Full Credits and
documentation about this program can be found at WWW Homepage Access
Counter
The Basics
This service is only available to CS graduate students at Rutgers University.
You can now add counters to your homepages. The idea of a counter is
simple, every time someone accesses your page your counter increases
by one. The number held in the counter is displayed so that everyone
can see just how popular your page is.
Adding a counter to your page
A counter is simply a GIF image created by a cgi script. The basic
line you need to add a counter to your page simply
<img src="http://paul.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/Count.cgi">
But you need more than this. If this is all you add you will get the
error message
It sais this because your counter information is stored
in a file, and you need to give that file a name. You specify this by using the configuration option df=filename. Where filename is the name you choose to give your counter.
Example: <img src="http://paul.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=home.counter">
Other configuration options
All configuration options are specified after the ? at the end of the URL:
<img src="http://paul.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?">
Configuration options are separated by |. And the below defaults will be used unless otherwise specified.
Example: <img src="http://paul.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=2|dd=A|df=home.count">
- ft=6 --> Frame thickness, Default is 6
- frgb=0:50:250 --> Frame Red Green Blue valid range is from 0-255
- wxh=15:20 --> Width and Hieght of the frame
- md=10 --> Maximum number of digits to show in the frame
- dd=B --> Digit Font Style A-D
- st=0 --> Starting value. The first time you counter is accessed it will have this initial value.
- df=NO DEFAULT--> filename