This tutorial shows you how to create a simple counter that you can use anywhere in your flash movie.  The most obvious place is for either the intro or the main part of the Flash Movie that you are working with.  You can also use this in other parts of your movie as well.  For example, say you needed to keep track of how many users are viewing a certain section of your website, you can add one line of code and one text file - and you'll be able to keep track of that section.  This can be advantageous because sometimes it's good to know what users are viewing and what the most popular sections of your website are - if for no other reason then just making sure that you've got that section designed as good as possible.  Another reason might be that you need to place a banner ad or other form of advertisement on the most popular section of your website.  If you happen to visit message boards where you can use a Flash Footer - you can also add this to that to keep track of how many people are viewing your posts - not that useful though except as a gimmick.

Overview

This Tutorial shows you the basics of creating a simple Counter for your flash website.  You can use this same technique to keep track of almost any part of your website.  Say if you want to know how many people go to each section - with a few modifications and copy and pastes - you'll have it all set up in no time at all. 

For a working example Click Here - This just keeps track of how many people have clicked that link you just hit - you can also refresh that page and see the counter increase by 1. 

Requirements:  PHP 4 installed on your server.  (Or a cgi-bin if can't use PHP - skip to the Perl Option if that's the case).  Some knowledge of Actionscript.