In MyBB forum: How to show a counter that doesn't count visits?

[clanuis]

Hi, our website is: www.clanuis.co.nr
My statcounter username is: clanuis

I would like to add the counter in our MyBB forum. The forum has a "global footer" section that can be used to add the code in all pages, BUT! I want to show the counter only in homepage.... if I add the invisible counter in the "global footer" also the homepage is affected and if I also add the visible counter to the homepage, it would result in having in homepage 2 counters (and counting 2 hits each visit).

Is there a code to show the counter and NOT counting a visit? This way, I can have 2 counter codes in homepage, the invisible one (taken from "global footer") wich does count visits, and the visible one wich DOESN'T count visits.

Thanks in advance.

[webado]

Sorry, no way to do that. There is no "view, no-log" option for the counter. If it's present when a page is loaded in the browser, visible or invisible, it will count the hit.

[clanuis]

Thanks for replying me so fast.

Well, so.... In my case (the case of a site with this settings, like a MyBB forum), there are only 2 options: 1) Show the counter in all pages and 2) DOn't show the counter anywhere.. am I right? It seems that we cannot use here the option "show counter in homepage only" (as we cannot avoid the invisible code to be added in homepage as well)

[webado]

You will need to modify your software with some server-side scripting to include the counter code only on the homepage and not include it on others.

I dont' know if mybb is php driven, but f it is it woudl be something like this:

Assuming the homepage has no query string associated with it, so it can be distinguished from other pages which always have a query string, that way:

<?php

$query_string=$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
if (!$query_string) { include("counter.inc");}
?>

Then the file counter.inc will be a text file which contains all your Statcounter code as given by the Statcounter wizard, and located in the main folder of the application.

It will be somehting along thsoe lines, you need to figure out how you can distinguish the homepgae from other pages (as it occurs in navigation). If the forum's homepage is accessible under more than one url the test needs to be more extensive of course.

[clanuis]

Thank you very much for your support. I'll try what you suggested. Regards!