'Who's Online' number increase

1. Is there a way to manually input a starting number for users onine?

In other words, if the actual number of users online is 15...can I have it appear as 2015, etc.?

<lol>, number inflation.

I would assume it was a pretty easy hack to make.

Ha. Well, I figure at the early stage it is best to look like people are around the site.

Any ideas where to increase that number?

You are much better off just to turn the box off than to lie about how many people are online.

Yes, of course my feelings would be the same if those numbers appeared on the shopping cart. However, they will not.

If you have followed my postings you would also realize that I have two other sites created with zen which do not involve the shopping cart feature. These focus around public flows of information, in particular historical documents and web resources. It is my intention to create an atmosphere where users are not intimidated to submit resources, documents, sites etc. because they feel no one will see them.

However, that is exactly why I have the number of vistors showing. So these users realize people are visiting the site.....

Does that make sense to you now?

Here are the non-shopping cart sites I refer to:

1) Online documents, articles and magazine: http://www.historicohio.org
2) Web, research and resource guide: http://www.historicalpreservation.org/webguide/

These are the sites where I want visitor numbers displayed.

You will also notice the shopping cart called "The History Store". This is a different circumstance. I will not display visitor numbers on that site.

hope that explains it

Hi,

Does anyone know how to do this please?
i notice superugg.com has done this.

Thanks

Sam

bjmhistory:

Here are the non-shopping cart sites I refer to:

1) Online documents, articles and magazine: http://www.historicohio.org
2) Web, research and resource guide: http://www.historicalpreservation.org/webguide/

These are the sites where I want visitor numbers displayed.

You will also notice the shopping cart called "The History Store". This is a different circumstance. I will not display visitor numbers on that site.

hope that explains itI believe you are using joomla on those sites, why dont you ask in their support forum instead?

A lot can change in a year and 9 months... Perhaps the OP was using Zen Cart for the info sites then. I notice the historicohio site still is not using a counter (inflated or not:).

E-commerce or not, directly lying about your visitor numbers doesn't seem right. That's a different matter from starting an id counter at a higher point.

I rather suspect that the clear ethical issue was the reason the question wasn't answered directly.

e-commerce more than any other branch of web design or retailing demands trust, and I doubt that that many of the people who have worked with Zen Cart for an extended period would be comfortable providing the information being requested.

Hi,
I'm aware of the ethical issues of doing such things as this but it is purely for knowledge purposes and not actual implementation.

How would you go about changing this?
Thanks
Sam
Year 13 A-Level IT Student

hargz:

I'm aware of the ethical issues of doing such things as this but it is purely for knowledge purposes and not actual implementation.

How would you go about changing this?
You would have to study the code: find out where that information is output to the screen, then find out where the template that does that output gets its data, then find out whether you need to look further at the database calls used to extract that data, and make whatever changes are appropriate for your needs.

Sorry, that's as specific as we can get when it comes to ethical matters. It's basically the same process you should use when it comes to customizing anything.