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Installation

Note: If you are upgrading from PHPCounter 5.x, 6.x, 7.0, or 7.1 please see the notes below.

PHPCounter is very easy to install. The following installation instructions will get PHPCounter installed using the default settings. Please read the Settings section below to learn how to customise PHPCounter.

• The first thing you need to do is to download the ZIP file as per the instructions above.
• Next, create a folder (also called a directory) on your webserver to store PHPCounter. For the sake of this example, I will call this directory the COUNTER directory.
• Next, unzip the PHPCounter ZIP file to a folder on your computer. You will get a list of files. You will also get a some folders (directories) including plugins and images.
• Upload ALL OF THE FILES AND FOLDERS to your COUNTER directory on your server.
• Inside your COUNTER directory, create another folder called locks.
• Now you need to set the permissions. How you do this varies with each program, but look for the option to change permissions, or one called CHMOD. Once you have found it, set the permission for the following directories:
  
  • COUNTER directory to be 777
  • The locks directory to be 777
  • The counts directory to be 777
  • The globals directory to be 777
  • The dawn.txt file to be 666

Your installation is now ready to use!

Using your web browser, browse to the information.php file in the COUNTER directory to get the PHP code you need to start tracking pages. For example, if you installed PHPCounter to http://ekstreme.com/counter/, then browse to PHP code you need to start tracking pages. For example, if you installed PHPCounter to http://ekstreme.com/counter/, then browse to http://ekstreme.com/counter/information.php.

Upgrading

The PHPCounter 7.x series is not compatible with previous versions. All of the 7.x series versions are compatible with each other and can be used as drop in replacements.

However, as of PHPCounter 7.2, if you upgrade the plugins, you need to upgrade the associated text files. For example, if you upgrade the Search Strings plugin, you need to update the searchstrings.querynames.txt file too. That is because of a change in the plugin algorithm.