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+---- Thread: How To Connect My Download Button With A Counter? (/showthread.php?tid=5323213)
How To Connect My Download Button With A Counter? - Famous Dexter - Jun 30, 2016
I Wanna Make It Where When Someone Clicks The Download Button, The Counter On Tye Page Tells Me How Many Times Its Been Downloaded!! Help Me!!
* - SteezyHB - Jun 30, 2016
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11195712/how-to-have-a-download-counter-attached-to-my-html-download-button
* - ihatevim - Jun 30, 2016
Create a counter variable and print the variable. Add one to the value on button interaction.
* - SteezyHB - Jun 30, 2016
(Jun 30, 2016 12:57 PM)ihatevim Wrote: Create a counter variable and print the variable. Add one to the value on button interaction.
Sherlock holmes in the house right here
* - Nerdi - Jun 30, 2016
On click
$Variable++;
That's not code. That's just the principle of it. I'm currently at work and on mobile, but this should point you in the right direction.
* - ihatevim - Jun 30, 2016
(Jun 30, 2016 12:59 PM)SteezyHB Wrote: Sherlock holmes in the house right here
God forbid someone provides the pseudocode as opposed to posting the first link they google'd.
* - kznamst - Jul 1, 2016
Or you can do it with a form, using database. This way you can use that number everywhere.
* - Syncc - Jul 1, 2016
Just update a database entry when the botton is client to an int stored in the db as counter.
* - Squito - Jul 1, 2016
When someone clicks on the link it should point to a PHP file that reads a file with one single number in it, add +1 to the number and overwrite the file with the number, then redirect to the actual file with header().
* - SIM-545076 - Jul 1, 2016
(Jul 1, 2016 06:42 AM)Squito Wrote: When someone clicks on the link it should point to a PHP file that reads a file with one single number in it, add +1 to the number and overwrite the file with the number, then redirect to the actual file with header().
I like this approach.
Create 2 new files:
- download.php
- counter.txt (leave blank)
Example code for download.php;
PHP Code
<?php
$count = file_get_contents('counter.txt');
$f = fopen('counter.txt', 'w+');
fwrite($f, $count + 1);
fclose($f);
header("Location: downloadfile.zip");
?>Then you can just link the download.php file where your download button is using a simple code, for example;
Code
<a href="download.php">Download</a>To display the number of downloads;
PHP Code
<?php echo file_get_contents( "counter.txt" ); ?>* - Squito - Jul 1, 2016
(Jul 1, 2016 10:07 AM)Kill4 Wrote: Create 2 new files:
- download.php
- counter.txt (leave blank)
You mean create a counter.txt with the content: 0. Also make sure that the counter.txt is writable (666 or 777 rights).