On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Philip Thompson <philthathril@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > If you want to take it a step further and only record a *click* if a person > hasn't clicked this article before, you have several options. You can save a > cookie on their computer saying they've clicked that article - of course > they can delete the cookie, which may skew the count. Or you can save their > IP address in a database (or file, if you want to choose that method) - only > increment if that IP address hasn't clicked that article before. And of > course, it's also very possible that their IP address can change. However, > it should work pretty well. Or they could share an IP with a few hundred other people so that all of them combined only get counted one time. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
