The only problem is that companies like home.com and aol.com use roving IP's so the same visitor could trigger several counts if they stay on your site long enough.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:40 PM To: CF-Talk 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
