Displaying Graphic Counters
Introduction
Counters tabulate the number of visitor's to a page. However,
counters cannot determine unique visitors to a page (i.e, one
visitor may visit the page multiple times).
Text counter values appear as text
numbers. Graphic counter values appear as number graphics in
a specified font.
In this example, a graphic counter is added to a web page.
MGI Tags
Steps
- Open a page in a text editor .
- Insert the mgiCounter tag.
- Save the page.
- FTP the page to the web server running MGI.
- View the page in a web browser.
Step 1: Open a page in a text editor.
- Open a web page in a text editing program that allows you
to view and modify the HTML and code of the page.
Step 2: Insert the mgiCounter tag.
- Enter the mgiCounter tag, name parameter, type parameter
and font parameter where you want the counter value to appear.
In the name parameter, enter the unique counter name. Counters
are stored in an internal MGI database and values from multiple
counters with the same name are added to the same database record.
In the type parameter, enter "Graphic". In the font
parameter, enter the font name you wish to display. The default
font is "odometer". Additional built-in fonts include
"DigitBlueGlow", "Greeny", "RedDigital",
"SmallBlue", and "SaintFrancis". View
font graphics.
<p>You are visitor number <mgiCounter name="about"
type="Graphic" font="Odometer">.
Step 3: Save the page.
- Save the changes you have made to the page.
Step 4: FTP the page to the web server running MGI.
- Upload the page from your local computer to the web server
using an FTP program.
Step 5: View the page in a web browser.
- View the page in a web browser. The counter value displays
a "1" graphic for the first visitor, a "2"
graphic for the second visitor, etc. Counter values continue
to increment until the counter value is reset using the counter
admin.
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