Hey there. I was wondering how can I include one of those little counter things that will tell peaople how many times one of my programs has been downloaded. Yuo know what I mean... underneath a link to download something it says something like "downloaded: x ammount of times".

Please tell me how I can do this, but, my server only supports CGI, nothing else, no MySQL, no PHP, nothing.

Is it still possible?

You can use Perl to write to a file. I don't know Perl too much, so that's all I can say.

It could be done possibly in JS with using a Perl to store info somewhere....

But how though?

The easiest I think would be with php...Just create a query string to each download with say http://myurl.com/?download=file1. And have this call the file up while incrementing the counter by one for that file.

uhhh... sorry... but i'm using PHP try to search this forums for answer... as for idea... well on "onclick" event (for your link) a number of clicks should be taken from file, incremented and the written again...

Here you will find everything what you need on perl:

http://www.hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Pe...ams/index.html