Making a View Counter for GitHub Repos - Easy PHP Tutorial

Published: 20 October 2020
on channel: Jonah Lawrence • Dev Pro Tips

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View Counter Beginner Tutorial in PHP for websites, Github repos, and profiles on many sites.

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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP file which will output an svg image of the current number of views your page has gotten. You can put this on a server and use the URL as the image source to easily get a live view counter on you Github repo or profile page which will automatically update. This can also be used on personal websites, Patreon pages, Wordpress posts, and much more.

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📺 In this video:
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Creating the workspace
1:37 - Incrementing a file
5:56 - Outputting an image
10:39 - Disabling cache
12:11 - Short number format
14:50 - Putting your image on GitHub
15:59 - Conclusion

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