Most Popular / Read Script

how to do - where to find?

[Visit Thailand]

I have noticed more and moe sites using the most read / popular, and most emailed boxes like Reuters, the BBC.

What type of script would I need to search for or is something like this simple to do?

[Visit Thailand]

Any thoughts on this as my searches have not turned up much.

Does it use an apache module or do the pages have to be indexed in a database?

Also any tips on what to search for as obviously searching for "Most Read Script" etc brings up many inacurate results.

[Beagle]

You might want some kind of a "ratings" script. If you're starting something new, you could look at CMS's, as some of them have this built in.

[Visit Thailand]

Thanks Beagle but this is not something new and it is becoming very popular on news sites. It is not a rating script as it seems to come from the server.

[Drag_Racer]

I wrote a little script to handle this thing a while back which worked quite well. I just add an img tag to the page at the bottom. the src attribute points to the script (with a few variables) which sends back a 1 px transparent gif then records the page, category and time. The for the most recent/popular section I just parse the data stored. real simple and real fast...

[Beagle]

Just to clarify, by "something new" I meant what you're doing - that is, starting a new site or wanting to implement the feature on an already existing site.