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Counting how many users you currently have viewing your website is a neat thing to add to your site and it's simple.

This is a common feature on websites showing that there are x visitors on site at present .

This example uses a flat text file to store the count .

This is a slightly better version of your standard text counter , this example only increments a count once per session whereas a normal counter could increment several times.

By implementing this code on your site, you can display the number of visitors that are currently browsing your site.

Learn how to use global.

Cookies can be used to remember things about a user when they come back to your site.

Cookies can be a good method for passing data between pages and especially for retaining data between sessions.

Cookies enable you to write text directly to a users computer.

Cookies are a very useful; they can store usernames/password, preferences, last visits, etc.