Well it is fine however take into consideration those users who may visit your site could be on dial-up.
So per-say at 11:00AM you get Visitor A to come to your site and you set the session.visitor since it was not set and the IP Address was not present in your table. Then at 1:00PM you get a different visitor lets call Visitor B which is using the same ISP (Dial-up) and happens to have the same IP as Visitor A, so you check the database table and see the person has already visited the site considering the IP is present which in fact this could be a brand new person. Unless you are just trying to identify where you main traffic comes from then this is fine, but to get an very close accurate Hit Couter on new visitors it is a bit hard. DAMN THEM DIAL-UPS... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:39 PM Subject: RE: CF and Hit Counter > I don't see anything wrong with doing it that way. > It won't cause any performance loss unless you get overloaded with hits > all at once. > But if your sites traffic generally comes from the same people, that way > would work just fine. > > ______________________ > steve oliver > cresco technologies, inc. > http://www.crescotech.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:35 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CF and Hit Counter > > > Hi all, > > I am in the process of writing a hit counter app in java, but in the > meantime, I have thrown a little something together in CF and wanted to > get some feedback on it. > > I have a SQL Server backend to this site and what I do is in the > application.cfm page, I check for the existence of a variable called > session.visitor. If it exists, it means that the application already ran > the next part which is the code to look at the users IP and check for it > in a table in my DB... if there is a match it sets the variable > session.visitor again, and if no match is found it adds a record and > then sets the variable. > > Is there anything wrong with the way I do this?...is there a more > efficient way? > Just so you know, I am unable to use cookies on this site. > > Mike > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
