Counting results from forms

[Anon]

I am new to PHP and I am trying to do a survey. What I want is to keep a running total for each of the options from each of the answers. Is there a way to do this using a file rather than a database? How do I go about coding the counter? Any help you have would be appreciated.

[Anon]

//use this to add a form var called $newThing to a file.

$file = "/www/htdocs/yourFile.txt";
$fp = fopen($file,"a");
fputs($fp,"$newThing\n");
fclose($fp);

//then you can make a new file that opens that file with the form data, counts line by line, and returns a value of how many lines there are.

$lines = file("./www/htdocs/yourFile.txt");
$myCount= count($lines);
echo "Count = $myCount<br>";
fclose($fp);

something like that anyway...
hope it helps.

-Dan