CGI counters example

1 Frame Color and Thickness
2 Comma can be Displayed
3 Rotation
4 Digit Styles
5 Change any color
6 Negate the colors
7 Transparency
8 Hide the counter
9 Monitor counter hits
10 Number of digits
11 Literal
12 Counter as clock

Frame Color and Thickness

A frame with a bluish color is wrapped by default. You have to use ft=0 to ignore this feature.

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi"> This may not work with all browsers. You should use at least one keyword in the query string (for example, df=data_file). Random counter is displayed as no data file is specified. The default frame thickness, color and digit style is used.

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=1"> No df= option, therefore random digits are displayed. Because of ft=1 no frame was wrapped.

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=6"> Random digits. Wrapped frame is with default color and thickness.

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=10&df=x.dat"> Random digits. Wrapped frame is with default color and asked thickness.

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?frgb=ffd700&df=x.dat"> The wrapped frame is of the asked color and default thickness. The color is used as hex string. Note, DO NOT add # before the string as you use with Netscape. In query string, if you use a #, everything after # is ignored. So, be careful.

or you use can use the RGB triplets like:

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?frgb=255;215;0&df=x.dat"> or you even use the color name. You have to add this support while you configure using the Count-config script.

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Comma can be Displayed

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Rotation

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=0&degrees=90"df=x.dat> The first counter is rotated default 270 degrees toward right, no angle is specified as rotate keyword is used.

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Digit Styles

These are the supplied digit styles. You can use digits from other sources. Just create a directory inside the digits directory, rename the digits to zero.gif, one.gif....nine.gif and use the directory name with dd.

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Change any color

Change green color to red:

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Negate the colors

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?negate=T&dd=A|df=x.dat"> Note that the digit color is negated but the frame is not.

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Transparency

A specific color of the digits can be made transparent on the fly. Note the counter program do not care if your gif images are transparent or not, you have to tell explicitly which color to make transparent. Here we will make the white color of the digit style E transparent. We will not use any frame either, just to make it look simple.

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=E|ft=0|tr=T|trgb=ffffff"> You can use the RGB triplets for the color like:

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=E|ft=0|tr=T|trgb=255;255;255"> Make the black color of the digit style A transparent:

<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=A|tr=T|trgb=000000&df=x.dat"> , or <img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=A|tr=T|trgb=0;0;0&df=x.dat"> , or <img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?dd=A|tr=T|trgb=black&df=x.dat"> Make the green color of the digit style A transparent:

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Hide the counter

You can keep the counter hidden if you like. You can do this by sh=0. The hit will be recorded but the counter will not be displayed. A 1x1 transparent GIF image is written which gives the illusion. You can use the no-increment feature for monitoring those hits to a secret page (described later) <img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?sh=0|df=x.dat"> A hidden counter is up there.

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