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Web Access Hit Counters
Before implementing page counters you
must create Counter Entries in the webHQ Administration utility.
Each Counter Entry contains your client name followed by a full
stop and a number. Every time you add a counter to the Counter Entries
screen that number increments.
To reference your page counter add the following to the section
of your Web document that you wish to have a counter for:
<IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=9|frgb=69;139;50|tr=0|trgb=0;0;0|
wxh=15;20|md=6|dd=A|st=5|sh=1|df=XXXXX.X" align=absmiddle>
(All on a single line)
If you would like to see an example of the source code put to use
in a page, please view the source to this page to see how the counter
below is referenced.
Counter Settings
ft=9
ft means frame thickness. If you want to wrap the counter with a
ornamental frame, you define the frame thickness like this. Here
9 is the thickness of the frame in pixel. This value can be any
positive number more than 1. For nice 3D effect, use a number more
than 5. If you do not want frame, just use ft=0.
frgb=69;139;50
frgb defines the colour of the frame. Here 69 is the red component,
139 is the green component and 50 is the blue component of the colour
The valid range of each component is >=0 and <= 255.
The components must be separated by ; character. Note even if you
define ft=0, these components must be present, just use 0;0;0 in
that case.
tr=0
tr defines if you want transparency in the counter image. Here tr=0,
that is I do not want transparent image. If you want transparent
image, define tr=1. Note that Count.cgi, does not care if your digits
are transparent GIFs or not. You must tell explicitly which colour
you want to make transparent.
trgb=0;0;0
if tr=1, then black colour of the image will get transparent. Here
0;0;0 are the red, green and blue component of the colour you want
to make transparent.
wxh=15;20
wxh string defines the width and height of an individual digit image.
Each digits must have the same width and height. If you like to
use digits not supplied with my distribution, find out the width
and height of the digits and specify them here.
MD=6
MD defines the maximum number of digits to display. It can be >=
5 and <= 10. If your counter number is less than MD, the
left digits will be padded with zeros. Here MD=6 means, display
the counter with maximum 6 digits. f you do not want to left pad
with zeros, use <b>pad=0</b> instead of MD=6. <B>Note
you can either use MD=some_number of pad=0, in this< field, you
can not use both.</B> If you use <b>pad=0</b>,
then the digits will be displayed exactly without padding.
DD=A
DD means digit directory. A indicates, it will use my LED digits
located at the directory A. The base of the directory A is defined
with <B>DigitDir</B> at step 1.
sh=1
sh mean show. If sh=0, then no digit images will be displayed, however
a transparent 1x1 transparent GIF image will be returned, which
will give the illusion of nothing being displayed. Although it will
seem that nothing is displayed, the counter will be incremented
all right.
df=XXXXXX.X
finally df means data file. This is the Counter Name as created
within the Counter Entries section in webHQ.
(eg: demo.1)
