I wrote a script to count the number of hits but I do not want a cheesy hit counter like alot of sites have. What I want to do is take the hit count and simply wqrite at the bottom of my html page something like "100 people have visited since 10 Jan 2004" or something like that.

Any ideas on how I could do this? I have the script written and have already thought about embedding it into an image tag and then somehow have it print that way whenever someone accessed the site but am a little unclear on how to do that.

Here is the script: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$file    = "/home/master/temp/perlskripts_ip.log";
$visited = "/home/master/temp/count.log";
$time = `date`;
if ($ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} !~ /192.168.0.(\d+)/) {
   if (!-e $file) {
      `touch $file`;
   }
   open(lg, ">>$file") || die "Can't open $file!\n";
   print lg "User from ".$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}." logged on ".$time;
   close(lg);
   if (!-e $visited) {
      `touch $visited`;
   }
   open (vis, "<$visited") || die "Cannot open $visited for reading!\n
+";
   $count = <vis>;
   close (vis);
   print "count is ".$count,"\n";
   open (vis, ">$visited") || die "Cannot open $visited for writing!\n
+";
   if ($count ne "") {
      $count++;
   }else{
      $count = 1;
   }
   print vis $count;
   close (vis);
}

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Any ideas?

In reply to Need a way to print script output to web page? by Elijah

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