I have 3 php pages.
Counter.php - I want this file to display how many clicks Counter 2, Counter 3 got.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Counter</title>
</head>
<body>
You visited page Counter2
<?php include 'Counter2.php'; echo $Counter; ?>
Times.
You visited page Counter3
<?php include 'Counter3.php'; echo $Counter3; ?>
Times.
</body>
</html>
Counter2.php - I want to count the amount of click this page has had.
<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION["counter"]))
{
$counter = $_SESSION["counter"];
}
else
{
$counter = 0;
}
$_SESSION["counter"] = $counter + 1;
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Counter</title>
</head>
<body>
<?= $counter ?>
</body>
</html>
Counter3.php - I want to count the amount of click this page has had.
<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION["counter3"]))
{
$counter3 = $_SESSION["counter3"];
}
else
{
$counter3 = 0;
}
$_SESSION["counter3"] = $counter3 + 1;
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Counter</title>
</head>
<body>
You visted this page this many times:
<?= $counter3 ?>
</body>
</html>
Now, everything is working how it should be, HOWEVER, when I include the php files <?php include 'Counter3.php'; echo $Counter3; ?> to log the amount of clicks it continues to increase when I load the Counter.php file. I do not want it to, I just want Counter.php to log how many clicks Counter2 and Counter3 has had. And stop Counter.php increasing the click number.
You can use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to add an extra if to both counter2.php and counter3.php, and if the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] points to counter.php, you can skip incrementing the counters
Including a page makes the code run, so it would increase all the counters in the pages. Instead just use the $_SESSION[] variable directly.
<?php
session_start()
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Counter</title>
</head>
<body>
You visited page Counter2 <?php echo $_SESSION["counter2"]; ?> Times.
You visited page Counter3 <?php echo $_SESSION["counter3"]; ?> Times.
</body>
</html>
Also, in PHP you can do the following:
$_SESSION["counter3"] = isset($_SESSION["counter3"]) ? $_SESSION["counter3"] : 0;
//$_SESSION["counter3"] = $_SESSION["counter3"] ?? 0; // only in PHP 7
Also on a side note, you don't have to create this code on every page as it might get messy in the long run.
<?php #counter.php
if(session_status() == PHP_SESSION_NONE){
session_start();
}
if(isset($_SESSION['counter'][$_SEVER['REQUEST_URI']])){
$_SESSION['counter'][$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']] = $_SESSION['counter'][$_SEVER['REQUEST_URI']] + 1
} else {
$_SESSION['counter'][$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']] = 1;
}
function countpagetimes(){
return $_SESSION['counter'][$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']];
}
?>
<?php #somepage.php
include 'counter.php';
echo 'You visited this page ' . countpagetimes() . ' times'.
?>
There are several options for this problem:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to let the counter only increment if the URI does not contain counter.php