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In theory this sounds like it would work but clearly I am doing something wrong.

I want to keep track of how many times a story is viewed. I have a table called stories. Its primary key is a column called story_ID and the counts would be kept track in a column called story views.

In order to get to a page I am using a pageParameter called showme.

At the top of the story page (all stories are viewed on this page when clicked) I added a mysql query something like this

// include ("../config/include/db.php");
//		$query = "update stories set story_views = story_views + 1 where story_ID = '. pageParameter("showme" "-1") . '";
//		$results = mysql_query($query);

The page paremeter sends the story_ID from the clicked headline on the previous page. In theory I thougtht this would work but to no avail. I get parsing errors and mysql_fetch_array errors

I checked online for help but I found programs for counting external links and such. In the forum all I found was a click counter in ASP. Can anyone nudge me in the right direction.