[Famous Dexter]

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]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11195...oad-button

[ihatevim]

Create a counter variable and print the variable. Add one to the value on button interaction.

[SteezyHB]

Create a counter variable and print the variable. Add one to the value on button interaction.

Sherlock holmes in the house right here

[Nerdi]

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]

Sherlock holmes in the house right here

God forbid someone provides the pseudocode as opposed to posting the first link they google'd.

[kznamst]

Or you can do it with a form, using database. This way you can use that number everywhere.

[Syncc]

Just update a database entry when the botton is client to an int stored in the db as counter.

[Squito]

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]

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]

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).