How to get the names of the visitors of a site and compile them into a file?

[tedamh]

I would like to get the names of the visitors of my site (no password, just to know who went there), either with a form or pop up window, and then compile them with the date and time in a file.

I suppose it is possible but I don’t even know what language to use (ASP, CGI…). All I know is Html and Javascript won’t do it. Can somebody help, please?

Then if it is possible I would like the file created e-mailed to me automatically, once a week for example.

I read some tutorials on ASP but it is still quite obscure to me, if somebody knows of a good, detailed one? :confused:

Thanks,
Tedamh

[A1ien51]

What server side language does your host support? Do you have the ability to use some sort of database?

Eric

[tedamh]

Seems it uses PHP4 (should have checked before, sorry)

Will it work?

I'm very confused about what does what... Html and Css were very easy, javascript was fun, but now that I want to go one step further I don't know which way to go... PHP, ASP, CGI... I tried to find out the differences, which to start with, what they do... but I couldn't come across one tutorial explicit about that. So I'm totally lost.
I guess I'll concentrate on PHP, since I didn't see any mention of the others in my provider's site (tiscali.fr).

Thanks for any help you can give sorting this mess out ;)
Tedamh

[tedamh]

I'll post my original question in the PHP forum