counter

[bigray]

help
it says

You Are Visitor

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/httpd/babesoncams.com/html/count.php on line 11

This site has seen 1 visitors

heres my code

<?php
$fp = fopen("count.txt", "w+");
if (is_resource($fp)) {

flock($fp, LOCK_EX);
fscanf("%d", $nCount);
ftruncate($fp,0);
rewind($fp);
fwrite($fp, ++$nCount);
flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
fclose($fp);

echo "<P>This site has seen <B>$nCount</B> visitors</P>";

}
?>

ok and i want the counter to show up on my index.html page www.babesoncams.com/index.html
how would i do that can anyone tell me ok thanks.

[bad_goose]

That error message "Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource" seems to indicate that the fopen() function didn't work, probably because the file is in the wrong place. Check the path to count.txt.

[bigray]

how do i make the counter show on my index.html page

[AdminsDeath]

:rolleyes:
One thing you must think is
Do i have my permission set to write access to the txt document ?check CHMOD!

I designed a Counter for html long ago and had no issues but then again i used MySQL data base to log the hits.

As for making it post on the web site thats not very hard.
Just query the data base and pull the information and post.

<?php

$joeblow ="0";
$tagyourit = mysql_query("select * from hits where counter>='$joeblow'");

echo "<center>$tagyourit[counter]</center>";
?>

[bad_goose]

Originally posted by bigray
how do i make the counter show on my index.html page

Well, you can't put php code in a regular .html page. You have to rename index.html to index.php for it to work. Or I guess you could set up your web server to parse all .html files as php scripts, but I don't think that's a good idea.

[bigray]

admin dont i have to do f open or something

<?php

$joeblow ="0";
$tagyourit = mysql_query("select * from hits where counter>='$joeblow'");

echo "<center>$tagyourit[counter]</center>";
?>

with that?

[bad_goose]

No, you don't need to do fopen before running mysql queries. You do, however, have to do mysql_connect and mysql_select_db. And of course you need to have mysql running. Look at the php manual.

[bigray]

just tell me a simple php script for a counter that works

[AdminsDeath]

Well that script does'nt get any easier all you have to do is of course connectdb() and your set!

[bigray]

how can i connect the db can u write the whole script thanks

[AdminsDeath]

You have to have alot of things!! the location of your database most are localhost then the user name to the database and the database name and password to access the database.

Pretty simple

function connectdb()
{
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "database_user", "password");
mysql_select_db("userdb", $db);
}

connectdb();