Re: Re: DB Ovewriting (again..)/ Counter Question

Ok, you figured out what the error was. I am so frustrated because it was a simple thing like 'the database isn't being made'. I was nearly sure it was (though I should have checked) because my or die(warn..) never mentioned anything.

As for the counter script would I have to do something which will calculate hours into days into a week so the script can work with it?

Thanks for your help!

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Re: Re: Re: DB Ovewriting (again..)/ Counter Question
by jasonk (Parson) on Apr 06, 2003 at 06:58 UTC

As for the counter script would I have to do something which will calculate hours into days into a week so the script can work with it?

I would just store it along with the current date, if storing it in a dbm, you could just do $counters{$date}++;. That way you get a dbm with dates for keys, and counts for value. To get a count for the week, just figure out which 7 days make up the week you want data for (using Date::Calc or something similar would make it easy), then add up the counters for those 7 days. To get a total count, add up all the values.

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