Not sure where else to ask, but seeking a script...

[LadyLarke]

Looking for a working script that counts how many times a file has been downloaded.

You've seen them everywhere. How many times someone downloaded some cgi script or mp3 file etc. What I seek is the same thing. A simple textual indicator that x.zip file has been downloaded x times. But I'd like to put that information beside where the zip file is downloaded. I do not want the number of downloads to be generated on a new page. I hope this makes sense?

example:

This Zip has been downloaded 5 times.

[GatorBrent]

Hmm have no idea. Does anyone know? If nobody replies here try asking on www.webhostingtalk.com and while you're there feel free to give us a review.

[CRySSiS]

A few minutes searching on Google turned this up as the best posible solution I found:
http://www.datatrendsoftware.com/countdown_lite.html

That what you are looking for?

If not:
http://www.perlmasters.com/categorie...nloading.shtml

[skarekrow]

You might want to try http://www.hotscripts.com

This might take you to where you want to be http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...nload_Systems/

[LadyLarke]

it's likely I've tried all the above. But I will try one I wasn't sure about. Thanks for the input folks. I hope one of them works this time lol.

Shannon

[LadyLarke]

Well I tried a couple of those and have seemingly exhausted all those options. Most scripts require you to have all your download files in one folder. Good grief I have 100's of files and just to try to keep things organized they are sorted in specific folders!

So, alternatively. How can I see what has been downloaded the most just for my personal knowledge. Forget showing the visitors. I just want to know how many times something was downloaded from my site.

[plugged]

here's a PHP/MySQL solution

create a mysql table name 'LINKCOUNT' like this:

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LID LCOUNT LFILE
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where LID is auto-increment and primary, LID and LCOUNT are integer values, and LFILE is a text value pointed to the address of the file..

add files like this..

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LID LCOUNT LFILE
1 0 link1.zip
2 0 link2.zip
3 0 /myfiles/link3.zip
4 0 http://www.yahoo.com/file.zip
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then link them like so:
<a href="linkcount.php?id=3">link 3</a>

and have a page linkcount.php:
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<?
$id = $_GET["id"];
$cid = mysql_connect("localhost","MYSQL_US R","MYSQL_PWD");
mysql_select_db("MYSQL_DB",$cid);
$result = mysql_query("UPDATE LINKCOUNT SET LCOUNT = LCOUNT + 1 WHERE LID = $id");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT LFILE FROM LINKCOUNT WHERE LID = $id");
$line = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$url = $line["LFILE"];
mysql_close($cid);

header("Location: $url");
?>
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change MYSQL_USR, MYSQL_PWD, and MYSQL_DB to your mysql username, password, and database.

to check your hit counts, just issue a SELECT LCOUNT FROM LINKCOUNT WHERE LID = $id

this can work with both links, and images.

a front end to this is easy to make..