[!--quoteo(post=369118:date=Apr 27 2006, 01:04 AM:name=Crayon Violent)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Crayon Violent @ Apr 27 2006, 01:04 AM) [snapback]369118[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] in the end, it's mostly just a matter of preference whether you want to store the number in a sql database or a text file, for something that simple. as far as sessions are concerned, it depends on how restricted you want your counter to be. do you want it to go up every time any random person views the page, even if they keep clicking the refresh button, or do you want it to only increment for unique users (ip addresses)? do you want the counter to be user specific (as in, "you have viewed this page x amount of times, Richard") ? [/quote] at first I wanted to just display amount of times page was viewed, but then I realized anyone should just refresh the page over and over and just increase the number, which then seems like a foolish idea because it whould be a unnesscary waste of server's resources. Now, I decide that I want to count only unique ips, lets say every 12 hours or so. Could I still use sessions, or now I would have to go into cookies?