ASPired2Count is a page hit counter that uses a database to store the times the pages are visited. The hit counter can be displayed as either text or graphics.

There are 2 lines of code you should insert into each file that you want to display a counter. At the top of the file, include this line of code.

<!-- #INCLUDE FILE="ASPired2Count.inc" -->

You may need to change the path to the file "ASPired2Count.inc" based on your file hieracrhy. Where you want to add the hit counter, insert a line of code for either the text counter or graphical counter.

<%=Get_Hit_Count(Request.ServerVariables("URL"), true)%> ' Text counter

<%=Hits2Image(Get_Hit_Count(Request.ServerVariables("URL"), false), 5)%> ' Graphical counter

To set up the database, do the following steps.

1. Place the database file "ASPired2Count.mdb" into a folder with write permissions.
2. Change the line 4 of ASPired2Count.inc ( pathStr = ".\ASPired2Count.mdb" ) to point to where your database is located.
3. You may need to change the folder location for the numerical images. This is on line 64 of ASPired2Count.inc.
4. If you know what you are doing and prefer a DSN connection, change the connection string on line 10 to the DSN name.

Changing the Graphic Images

In the ASPired2Count package, a folder is included that contains 10 GIFs for displaying a graphical hit counter. You can add your own numbers to this folder. We encourage you to make the numbers your own style. Once you have created a set of numerical graphics, you may need to change the links to the files.

1. Open the file "ASPired2Count.inc"
2. Change the file names on lines 53-62.
3. If you changed the folder, change the folder location on line 64.