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Oct 29.2017

Hi

I’m looking for a counter that has the following features.

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    Starts at midnight.


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    adds to counter in increments of several seconds (ex. 32 seconds)


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    starts again from zero the following day at midnight


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    has to be adjustable to time zone


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    this counter will e added to a WordPress website. Does anyone have any ideas??

    Thanks

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    @mjunkerauthorOct 29.2017 — for #2 when I say "adds to counter in increments of several seconds (ex. 32 seconds)" i mean a 1. so the counter counts up every 32 seconds. Sorry for the confusion.
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    @rootOct 29.2017 — I have never heard of wanting to restart a site counter at midnight before, so I suppose what you can do is use a piece of BASH script to run a PHP script via a CronJob that does the reset, that can be set to run once at midnight.

    The script could wipe out a database field value of the page count.

    Then all you need worry about is code for reading the current count.
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    @NogDogOct 30.2017 — If I'm understanding it correctly, maybe something like:
    [code=php]
    function counter($timezone, $intervalInSeconds)
    {
    date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
    $start = strtotime(date('Y-m-d').'T00:00:00');
    return floor((time() - $start) / $intervalInSeconds);
    }

    // sample usage:
    echo counter('America/New_York', 32);
    [/code]
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    @rootOct 30.2017 — IMHO, I think this is a bit of a combination, if the increment is every 32 seconds by 1, then this would be a server script being invoked by a CronJob to call a BASH Script that then runs a PHP script to do the insert and updates and also be responsible for wiping the database at midnight.

    When a page is requested, an AJAX script could every 32 seconds from the request_time poll the server via another server side to return that count.
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