[thelist] Cold Fusion for Tracking Hits

frank,

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: From: Frank <framar@interlog.com>
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: Using Cold Fusion for tracking hits on a website.
:
: Would there be a way to make it so that I could add some sort of tag
: (not a server side include, it's on NT) to make it so that static
: pages as well as Cold Fusion pages could log hits, and the
: environmentals to a database? What would be the general theory behind
: doing this?
:
:  From there I'm sure I could figure out how to generate reports.
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you'd be amazed what you can find in the "developer's exchange" (formerly
the "tag gallery") at www.allaire.com.  a quick search for "counter"
returned about 20 hits.

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the basic premise behind most of them is that you place an image on the page
that points to a cold fusion template.  that template does a little
processing, logging, etc, and then returns an image to the browser.  this is
very similar to how a lot of the free counter services provide hit tracking
for their members.  check out www.thecounter.com for an example of what
you'll most likely need client-side.

holler if you've got questions about the client-side or the server-side
portion of this puzzle.

good luck,

: jeff.howden
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