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Hi. Firstly, what a very useful script this is. Thank you.
Can you tell me if BOT's or Crawlers or any other non-humans can trigger the counter?
If so, is there any mod I can do to ensure that only human clicks are counted?
Thanks.

Yes, bots do trigger the count. To prevent the good bots (those that obey standards) doing so block them from visiting click.php using robots.txt file:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=robots.txt
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp& ... allow+file

Blocking others (non-standard compliant) would require coding in confirmation pages where people would have to type in a code (captcha) to visit a link - not recommended.

Thanks Klemen
That will help a lot. I'll try that on Monday.

Klem, couldn't you just check a session var is set as I found most bots pay no attention to sessions or cookies, thus they can't trigger the script if we check that ideas just my 2 cents ...

Its a small trick I use in my anti spam scripts.

DC

The bot would have to go through 2 requests for this to work (the click.php would have to be accessed two times).