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Posted by: Geoff Forster
Date: March 14, 2009 02:47AM

Hi,

I'm using a CMS and would like to create my own counter.

Ideally long term I'd like to have something like this:

A table ('daily_temp') with Date, Section, Story_Number

A Cron job to run at Midnight to total ('daily_temp') and store in the permanent table of records. Including keeping a table of record breaking totals, monthly and yearly etc. Clean 'daily_temp'.

But to start with I'd like a fast solution and get some help with setting up the temp table so I can get yesterday's totals and display them.

I have created the table, but is it better to add records and then use count() to get totals or have one record for (DATE+Section+Story_Number) and increment it?

If it's the latter how do I check for a change of date at midnight and Insert the records for the first page visits of each day?

Thanks
Geoff



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2009 03:11AM by Geoff Forster.

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