Please help with coutner

[Casper]

Hey i downloaded a site counter from http://www.proxy2.de/ and i need help installing it, completly lol can anyone help please?

[blackpepper]

what are you stuck on? which counter did you download?

[Casper]

I downloaded the first animated counter, and also the top downloads 2.0, i cant install them i dont understand it

[erisco]

Casper, did you download the PHP one? Does it come with instructions? What are those instructions? How are we supposed to know how to set it up either?

[Casper]

ya its php heres instructions

/**
* ----------------------------------------------
* Simple Animated Counter PHP 1.1
* Copyright (c)2001 Chi Kien Uong
* URL: http://www.proxy2.de
* ----------------------------------------------
*/


Requirements:

- PHP

Installation:

Set the permissions for all *.php files to mode 755
and give write permissions to the directory:

- pages - 777 (drwxrwxrwx) (directory)


Usage:

<?php

include_once "./acounter.php";
$ani_counter = new acounter();
echo $ani_counter->create_output("page");

?>


page = the page you want to track

[erisco]

Upload all the PHP files to say, a new directory called counter. Now through your FTP client, select all those PHP pages and make sure their permissions are set to 755. That is done through CHMOD. Next also use CHMOD to change the directory permissions (our directory is counter) to 777.

Now that that is done, you need to make sure the page using the counter ends in a .php extension rather than .html. After that you need to put the PHP code they provided into the page you want to use the counter on, and change page in "page" to the name of the page you want to track (which is probably your index page).

[Casper]

Ya my index (main page) is php so ill try this

[Casper]

It says my sever doesnt support file permission changes

[erisco]

try it anyways, as long as PHP is allowed to read and write from your directory it will be fine. Your host most likely doesn't allow chmod changes because they already have the permissions worked out.

[Casper]

Would i be able to do this with smartftp?

[<h1>]

Would i be able to do this with smartftp?
absolutely!
right click the file on your server, click on Properties/CHMOD and select the correct file permissions by selecting/deselecting the read/write/execute attributes..

[Casper]

Well i do that and i get this message at the bottom

[05:23:07] 500 'SITE CHMOD 755 acounter.php': command not understood

[erisco]

contact your web service. I thought you already mentioned you had, and they said they did not allow permission changes?

Have you actually tried the PHP without the permission changes? Take things one step at a time, don't jump to conclusions.

[Casper]

Yes i didnt contact them and they said i can change it but i really shouldnt it will mess my stuff up what do you meanb have i tried it?

[erisco]

As in, don't bother changing permissions until you know you need to. The PHP may already work as it is. Try out the counter.

[Casper]

nah dont work i get this

Warning: main(./acounter.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Domains\caspersmusicvideos.com\wwwroot\index.php on line 70

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening './acounter.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in C:\Domains\caspersmusicvideos.com\wwwroot\index.php on line 70

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: acounter in C:\Domains\caspersmusicvideos.com\wwwroot\index.php on line 71

[erisco]

Okay, but listen to the errors. Does C:\Domains\caspersmusicvideos.com\wwwroot\acounter.php exist on your computer? If not, you need to give the correct path to where that file is.

[Casper]

hey bro do you have msn , i did add you as a buddy lol and this is where it is on my ftp

ftp://caspersmusicvideos.c@ftp.caspersmusicvideos.com/wwwroot/Counter/acounter.php

So should i just put that