Count file

[Roamer]

Hi, I have a file which counts the actual visits to my site pages (not a hit counter).

It works fine, but I have to manually wipe it each month.

Is there an easy way (without modules) to zero out the file on the first day of the month 01 ($mday) only once! Which means it has to ignore the $mday of 01 after the first time. I can zero the file okay, but from there is beyond my skill.

Then every visit to a page is added as normal until the next month 02 ($mday) and repeats it. Without a cron job.

$pagelog="visits.txt";

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = gmtime();
$year = $year + 1900; $mon = $mon + 1;
if ($mon<10) {$mon="0$mon";}
if ($mday<10) {$mday="0$mday";}

if ($mday == 01)
 {print qq~<b>$mday</b>~;
 open VN, ">$pagelog"; close VN;}
 else {
print qq~<b>Log the next visitor</b>~;
}

At the moment it will just keep overwriting the file, which is not what I want it to do.

Or am I approaching this the wrong way?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Luuk]

You could rename the file from 'visits.txt' to 'visitsMMYY.txt ', where MMYY should be replace by the current month and year.

So, move line#1 to line7 and change it to (untested):

$pagelog="visits"+$mon+$year+".txt";

[Roamer]

Thanks Luuk, I'll give that a try. Dunno why I didn't think of that in the first place. Just needs another conditional.