Web stats for hit counter

Question

I've got a nice hit counter built with help from these
forums. It's working beautifully. Now I'm building the web stats
page. (no I'm just using CF7 and don't have CFStat from CF8 yet) I
would like to display the total count for the month (which I've
got) and then the daily breakdowns with the count for each day. I
know there's got to be a dynamic way to set the queries up to do
this without building 30 queries or more. I also want it to be able
to continue through the years without me having to modify the
dates.
Right now my simple query looks like this.
<cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="sept">
select referer, date from website_hits
where page like '%home.cfm'
and date >= '09/01/08'
and date <= '09/30/08'
</cfquery>
and the output is correct with
<cfoutput>#sept.recourdcount#</cfoutput>
But I know this is not good coding. I must be overwhelmed or
in a brain fog. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Wendy

Answer 1

Maybe I should be more specific. I got the monthly total
query working using this
<cfset today = #Dateformat(Now(), "mm/dd/yy")#>
<cfset daytostart= #DateAdd("d",-thedatepart,today)#>
<cfset daytostart = daytostart +1>
<cfset daytostart = #DateFormat(daytostart,
"MM/DD/YY")#>
<cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="monthly">
select referer, date from website_hits
where page like '%home.cfm'
and date >= '#daytostart#'
and date <= '#DateFormat(now(), "mm/dd/yy")#'
</cfquery>
<cfoutput>#monthly.recordcount#</cfoutput>
<br>
But now I need to pull out the daily totals. I'm toying with
the query below. I'm assuming I need to loop this and be able to
increment the date where it's currently hard coded. Is there a way
to loop this and assign each date to a variable that I can use to
display in a table?
<cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="thefirst">
select date from website_hits
where page like '%home.cfm'
and date = '09/01/08'
</cfquery>