Counters
MIDMI.NET offers you a variety of hit, clock, and  date counters for your web page.
These  are often used to count how many hits your web  page may  have gotten, or to display the date and  time for the visitor to see. MIDMI.NET users may  have only one counter for their website.  If you wish to have another one on another page,  please contact Tech Support ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )  for more information.

To set up your counter on your webpage, you  will  need to include an image tag (<IMG>)  in the HTML. Instead of calling an image, however,  it will call a CGI script that will send the browser  a .gif image of how many  "hits" your  page has gotten since you set the counter up.  (Note: The default is a hit counter. For  the clock and date counters, you must change the options noted below.) The  basic image tag would be like this:

<IMG SRC="http://www.midmi.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=username.dat">

 Note the bold part of that image  tag. For your page, you will need to replace "username.dat "  with whatever your MIDMI.NET username is, in all  lowercase. Thus, if your username was "chezwhiz"  the tag would look like this:

 <IMG SRC="http://www.midmi.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=chezwhiz.dat">

What this will do is place the default counter  where ever you place the image tag. It will not  be too fancy, but it will be functional. Since  the counter is using an image tag, you can still  use all of the standard HTML  image attributes,  like ALIGN, BORDER, and so on.

To display the clock, you add another option after  the ? in the image tag. You would use the  "display" option to tell the CGI script to display  the clock or the date instead of how many hits  you have gathered. So, if you wanted to display  the c lock option (which would show the time on  MIDMI.NET's servers) you would place the following  as the image tag:

<IMG SRC="http://www.midmi.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=clock">

Notice, you do not have to place the username  part, nor do you in the date version as well:

<IMG SRC="http://www.midmi.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=date">

Thus, you can  have a hit counter, clock, and date  all on the same page. These three, with default  settings, look like this:

If you reload this page several times, you will  notice that the hit counter always  displays a random  number. That is because we have not given it a username  to use, thus the program defaults to generating  random numbers. So, if you seem to be getting  random numbers on your page, make sure you placed  the username correctly.

There are many options for customizing your counters.  There are so many, that we will not list them all  here. I will list the most commonly used options  below, but if you are interested in the rest, please  go to the options list on the WWW Access Counter Homepage . Options  are separated in the image tag with ampersands "&"  like so:

 <IMG src="http://www.midmi.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=name.dat&dd=A" mce_src="http://www.midmi.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=name.dat&dd=A">

The options can go in any order, but there can be  no spaces. As well, none of the options are case-sensitive.

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