CALLING THE COUNTER PROGRAM
You can refer to the counter program from
your web page like this:
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=accountname.dat">
The "df" in
the line above stands for datafile. The datafile stores the number of hits to your web
page. The "accountname.dat"
in the example above should be replaced with your account name. The name of your datafile needs to be unique
because everyone's datafile is stored in the same directory.
For example, If your account name was "eggbert" you would refer to the
counter program like this:
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=eggbert.dat">
or
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=eggbert-count.dat">
or
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=eggbert-index.dat">
The server will
automatically create your datafile when you call your program for the first time.
You can modify the appearance of your counter in many ways. The string between the ? and the " is called the query string. There can't be any new lines in the "<img src" line and no space after the ?. You can specify several different options in the query string. The options must be separated with a | or a &. The options can be in any order and are not case sensitive. Look at the examples below.
EXAMPLES OF COUNTERS
COUNTER WITH DIGITS FROM
DIRECTORY A
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|dd=A">
COUNTER WITH DIGITS FROM
DIRECTORY B
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|dd=B">
COUNTER WITH DIGITS FROM
DIRECTORY C
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|dd=C">
COUNTER WITH DIGITS FROM
DIRECTORY D
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|dd=D">
COUNTER WITH DIGITS FROM
DIRECTORY E
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|dd=E">
COUNTER WITH NO FRAME
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|ft=0">
COUNTER WITH WIDE FRAME
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|ft=10">
COUNTER WITH YELLOW FRAME
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|frgb=ffff00">
COUNTER WITH RED DIGITS
(srgb=color to change/ prgb=color to change to)
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|srgb=00ff00&prgb=ff0000">
COUNTER WITH NEGATED DIGIT COLOR
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|negate=T">
COUNTER WITH THE BLACK COLOR OF
THE DIGIT TRANSPARENT
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|tr=T|trgb=000000">
COUNTER WITH ONLY 5 DIGITS
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|md=5">
COUNTER TO DISPLAY EXACT NUMBER
OF DIGITS
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|pad=0">
COUNTER WITH A COMMA AT THE
THOUSAND
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|comma=T">
COUNTER TO DISPLAY LITERAL STRING
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=yourfilename.dat|lit=1234">
DISPLAY DATE -
PACIFIC TIME ZONE
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=date|timezone=GMT-0800">
DISPLAY CLOCK - PACIFIC TIME
<img src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=clock|timezone=GMT-0800">
DISPLAY CLOCK IN 24 HOUR FORMAT
<img
src="http://www.sisqtel.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=clock|tformat=24|timezone=GMT-0800">
For more information visit www.muquit.com/muquit/software/Count/Count.html
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