Number of Views Wron at First?

We have a problem with the number of views reported on our forums. If you post a new post, the number of views seems to increment by 2-3 for each view until the number of views crests 10. Then it increments by 1.

Anyone else seen this?

Not sure how this can happen as the code runs in a procedule way; when the page is loaded it reads in the total views, adds 1 to it, then saves it back to the database again.

The only way it would go up faster is if others are looking at the page or you are hitting refresh.

It could be somthing to do with firewall and/or proxy servers you maybe using.

Something like these maybe sending mutiple requests to the server thus coursing the web server to call the file mutiple times, each time running the file so the view number is incremented.

Again your log files may help here.

Try posting a new post, and if it increments by more than 1 have a look in your sites log files to see if mutiple requests are sent to the server for that page.


Edited by -boRg- - 22 December 2005 at 12:09pm