This service is furnished for Lightlink customers only!

WEB PAGE HIT COUNTER - VERSION 2.4

This is the best Web counter, by far, that I've found. All credit for it goes to Muhammad A. Muquit

To use it, see below

The new version (2.4) is being installed:

• To offer new features
• For security reasons

Migrating to the new version - known issues

• Count files
  The database files that maintain your page counters will be automatically updated; no action is required on your part to prepare for the new version. The counters used by the older version are being preserved so that the new version can pick up where the old one left off without interrupting the counts. However, the counter file now records the most recent IP address as well as the count itself. This means that the counter won't increase each time you hit your Web browser's ``RELOAD'' key. The reason for this is to make it harder for a single user to hit on a page over and over and over to artificially increase the counter. If you don't know what this means, you should be able to safely ignore this.
• Frame Thickness and Transparency
  In this new version the Frame Thickness (FT=) option has been changed. Values greater than 5 now invoke special 3D effects. If your counter now looks funny, try changing the FT option to have a value of 5 (or less). Another problem can occur if you use the TRGB option. Try disabling this (i.e. remove the TRGB=0;0;0 option) if your counter (or part of it) appears ``washed out''.
• Access authoriztion
  Only our customers will be allowed to access the counter. If you are having problems and you suspect that your Web page isn't in the authorization list, please contact us.

• For an exhaustive list of options, look here
• For digit (font) styles, see below
• Usage sample:
  

  <img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=4|frgb=69;139;50|tr=0|wxh=15;20|md=6|
  dd=A|st=5|sh=1|df=username.count.dat" align=absmiddle>
  

  in your html file where you wish the counter to be shown (all in one line).

  Change username to your username, and if you want a style other than type "A", change DD= to B, C, D, or E. If you need more than one hits counter file, change count.dat accordingly.
  Please! Make sure that the first part of the hits counter file name is your unix username!

  The first time you use it, the counter will be 5. Change st=5 if you want some other initial count.

  Count has already been installed on lightlink, so all you need is this <IMG...> reference.

AVAILABLE STYLES (CHANGE DD= ACCORDINGLY):
Style A:
Style B:
Style C:
Style D:
Style E:

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Max (<mhp@lightlink.com>)