PHP Counter

[Anon]

I am just beginning with PHP and don't have much experience with computers. Can anyone help me out with what code I would need to have a PHP Counter on my website. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance

[Anon]

The exact code can be found somewhere on the web, I suppose. However, it's fairly easy to build.

Use a textfile to hold the number of visitors. Open this file with fopen(), read from it with fgets() and close the file with fclose(). This would do the trick. Output the var with echo...

[Anon]

I recommend using file lock in case you get two visitors at the same time.

You will need to set the counter number to 0 or if you want to cheat you can

$counter = 0;

function Read_Number($counter) {
read the number
}

// increment that number
$counter++;

// log the next hit
function Add_Number($counter) {

open file to file
flock file
print to file
close file
}

not exact code, but defines the basic meaning