Hey folks, Im fairly new to php and am learning fast. Currently I have set up php password protect pages, and simple pages which open and write information to text files.

My problem lies here in, Ive included into my html pages for counting viewers iframes which link out and make a call to php pages, the individual php pages write to simple text files and slowly tick over and let me know how many people have been viewing and what pages they have been looking at. Apart from dumping my servers logs is there any way of identifying who has viewed my html page eg ip address ect and further more is it possible to view how many people are on my site in real time

I was using statcounter for a while as an outsourced tracking program but I found it didnt always register people viewing, would love to be able to generate the same information from within my own site

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated

Steve

There are many stats program, free or otherwise. You may add justa bit of js code to your HTML pages and see the stats in the control panel.

But if you want to do current users, you may have to do some custom programming, I guess.

Still the best option is to use google analytics. A lot better than any other free/cheap program.

if you want a custom script ... you can check this tutorial :
http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/9.html

Do you have a MySQL database on hand or do you just want it in a text file?