Very new to php could someone help with this script

imaginephp

I'm just learning PHP got my book from wrox in front of me and trying to figure this out. I have a php page that I want to be able to display another page to the user after they have viewed the same page for 10 times. I want to redirect them to a new page clear the counter and start again

Every time page refreshes counter increments 1 for current viewer(by ip?)
When counter hits 10 redirect to new page.
*Clear current user's counter.

It sounds simple but I'm getting nowhere....

Thank you!

This is what I have thus far.

$fp = fopen("count.txt","r");
$count = fread ($fp, filesize ("count.txt"));
fclose($fp);
$count++;
$fp = fopen("count.txt","w");
fwrite($fp, $count);
fclose($fp);
echo "$count";

if($count=='10')
	$count = 0

eternalprophet

if($count=='10')
$count = 0

change to

if ($count=10){
$count=0
}

you could have probably just added a ; after $count = 0 but I prefer to make mine with all the little braces and whatnot.

Try that

Also, what error are you getting? Does it show up?

Are you getting parse errors? Do you have permission to write files to the directory?

imaginephp

Everything is working now only problem is that i need to keep a separate count for every web user that uses these pages. Thanks for the help any idea on this? Do i have to store this count in a file could i store it somewhere else in like a session or something(don't kow if sessions exist in php).. thanks

<?php
/ Determine how many times this page has been viewed per users and bring up ads /

$fp = fopen("count.txt","r");
$count = fread ($fp, filesize ("count.txt"));
fclose($fp);
$count++;
$fp = fopen("count.txt","w");
fwrite($fp, $count);
fclose($fp);
echo "$count";

if ($count=='10')
	{

	$count = 0;
	$fp = fopen("count.txt","r"); 
	$count = fread ($fp, filesize ("count.txt")); 
	fclose($fp); 
	$fp = fopen("count.txt","w"); 
	fwrite($fp, $count); 
	print ("<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;URL=break.php>");

	}