Yes indeed this is very clear and better.

But in order to increase a counter for a specific page or create it first and then populate it, the script must know which webpage just loaded for example page_5.html and extract just the filename without the dot and extension.

How to do this? The best i can do is this: 

$pagename = "something that tells me what si the name of the currnt sc
+ript running, just its filename";

if ( $pagename is an already actual field inside table 'counter' then 
+)
{
    $select = $db->prepare( "SELECT pagename, pagecounter FROM counter
+s" );
    $select->execute;
}
else
{
    $select = $db->prepare( "INSERT INTO counters (pagename, pagecount
+er) VALUES (?, ?)" );
    $select->execute( $pagename, 1 );


my $pagecounter;
while( $row = $select->fetchrow_hashref )
{
    $pagecounter += $row->{pagecounter} unless ( $row->{host} eq "&#92
+5;ίκος" );
}

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In reply to Re^4: Making an automatic counter adder for all webpages by Nik
in thread Making an automatic counter adder for all webpages by Nik

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