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Can I call an asp function from an html page?
Posted on 2015-01-07
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This is probably a really stupid question, however, I'm not very familiar with ASP. Is there any way that I can use an ASP function to count the number of hits to an html page, and display those results on a separate page? I don't want to have a visual hit counter, so I was going to display the results on a separate page. Someone told me I would have to convert the html page to an asp page in order for it to work. Is that correct? Is there any other way I could do it? I can't use 3rd party systems to gather the info.
This is probably a really stupid question, however, I'm not very familiar with ASP. Is there any way that I can use an ASP function to count the number of hits to an html page, and display those results on a separate page? I don't want to have a visual hit counter, so I was going to display the results on a separate page. Someone told me I would have to convert the html page to an asp page in order for it to work. Is that correct? Is there any other way I could do it? I can't use 3rd party systems to gather the info.
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If you want to count the hits, then all you need to do is keep the counts in a file or database table on the server and update it for every page request, For the display pag you just read the file or query the DB for the values.
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That is correct. HTML by itself does not support any kind of programming except for javascript in the browser. The server logs usually keep track all accesses so if you can find a log program that will process your server logs, you can find the info there.
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it would make your life that much easier to use some kind of server side language, such as classic asp, that way you can easily connect to a database on your server and store the info there. You could look into client side data storage, but that could get complicated if you're not familiar with the concept.
I found this tutorial that may help get you going in the right direction. It basically collects a lot of user stats, you could extract just the pieces you need for just a hit counter.
http://classicaspreference.com/aspexamples/classic_asp_track_visitors.asp
I found this tutorial that may help get you going in the right direction. It basically collects a lot of user stats, you could extract just the pieces you need for just a hit counter.
http://classicaspreference.com/aspexamples/classic_asp_track_visitors.asp
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"I can't use 3rd party systems to gather the info."
This is a shame, because Google Analytics would be the easiest way to do something like this. If you mean you can't use a third-party product on the Internet, consider Piwik, which can be installed on your own network, so you have complete control over it.
If you really can't use a third-party solution, you could create a second web site that DOES use ASP/ASP.Net, then include a reference to a page on the the ASP site from the HTML site. Every time a page on the HTML site loads, it calls the ASP site and the ASP site registers the hit. The ASP site can record the name of the calling page and update a database to keep track of the page, date/time, etc.
This is a shame, because Google Analytics would be the easiest way to do something like this. If you mean you can't use a third-party product on the Internet, consider Piwik, which can be installed on your own network, so you have complete control over it.
If you really can't use a third-party solution, you could create a second web site that DOES use ASP/ASP.Net, then include a reference to a page on the the ASP site from the HTML site. Every time a page on the HTML site loads, it calls the ASP site and the ASP site registers the hit. The ASP site can record the name of the calling page and update a database to keep track of the page, date/time, etc.
Thanks for all the responses. I ended up creating an ASP page and included a reference to it from the HTML page like paulmacd suggested.
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