# \[MX\] Hit Counter (No CGI or PERL etc..)
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 5, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589 "2003-06-05T21:06:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Keith130](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Keith130)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/1 "2003-06-05T21:06:22Z")
Is there a way to make a hit counter in flash without **any** scripting apart from ActionScript?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/2 "2003-06-05T21:07:32Z")
not for very long
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/3 "2003-06-08T20:28:17Z")
What do you mean not for very long?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/4 "2003-06-08T20:49:24Z")
as in the only hit counter you would have would be for the current person viewing the site and only for the time they were there. You could make a counter to check how many times they’ve visted a section, but outside of that, its gone
You could use the Shared object to do further counting for that one viewer - for every time they came back to the site, but it wouldnt account for other peole
the short of it is no.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/5 "2003-06-08T21:09:17Z")
So because I use brinkster would it be possible to use an ASP page that reads from a db or something?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/6 "2003-06-08T22:40:17Z")
yes
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/7 "2003-06-09T00:36:28Z")
Of couse you can use ASP and Flash to make a counter. I don’t know how to yet, as I have just acquired the Flash MX program.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/8 "2003-06-09T04:29:52Z")
basically you would use the send method to a url… then in your asp script you save the hits somehow, and then you would call that script to get the hits using the loadVars method… =)
thats the idea =)
i could write a flash example for you, but i use [ASP.net](http://ASP.net) , not ASP… but i can show you the flash AS you’ll need.
look at this first. Its in “Php” but the same princpals apply the actionscript will be basically the same. =)
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asandphp.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asandphp.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/9 "2003-06-09T06:28:34Z")
I use [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) too but I can never get any of my scripts to work on brinkster. Im not very good at ASP though so do you know anything about it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/10 "2003-06-09T06:35:21Z")
do you upload the bin directory to the server? and is that direcory a virtual directory running \>net applications? thats why it might not be working.
remember your code behind (if you use it) gets compiled into the dll in the bin dir of your project.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-hit-counter-no-cgi-or-perl-etc/22589/11 "2003-06-09T16:00:03Z")
Do you use Viusal Studio .NET? I use Web Matrix and it doesnt have a bin directory created?