Tracking Unique Visitors, Your help could help us save a life Options

[Listelle]

Okay, so the description is semi-dramatic, but it could in a way.
I'm a new user, btw.

The AHR group that I'm in (Assembly for Human Rights) is trying to create a Click2Donate type of page on our yet-to-be-created website/blog. The way it would work is that for every unique hit or click we get on a certain page in a twenty-four hour period, a sponsor would donate to our cause X amount of money. I need a way to reliably track these hits. I've already looked into just using the standard Web Stats that come in CPanel (Awstats, Webalizer), but I'd like something a little less complicated to present to a pending sponsor when asked, "How do we know how many clicks you're getting?" If anyone knows of a script or a preferrably free online service that could fill our need and could pass it on, I would be incredibly grateful.

We are trying to raise money for the situation in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. We plan on passing out cards with this project's url on it at our Darfur Awareness campaign on July 5. If you would like to help out in anyway, just spreading the word would make an impact.

Thank you all :)
-Listelle

[*mipadi*]

Do you know what languages you are using? Is it PHP + MySQL? If it is, I could have a script cooked up in a short period of time.

[Listelle]

Honestly? Wow, you are amazing.

I'm a novice at this kind of lingo, but I do believe that PHP + MYSQL is what I'll be using. When I get the site up, I'll probably be using a tweaked version of Wordpress to make it into some kind of pseudo-CMS.

[*mipadi*]

It can actually be done with a simple SQL statement. Store all visits in a database, then count the unique ones with this SQL statement:

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SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(*) AS Hits FROM TableVisitors

[Listelle]

Thanks for your help :)

But I'm completely useless at writing out PHP. A friend tipped me off to a plugin that I can install straight onto Wordpress and I'll probably go with that. I appreciate the help though.

Not sure of the protocall, but since the problem's been solved, the topic can be closed if thats what is normally done.