[Resolved] Please help with my user statistics PHP file.

[Kai-Hugo]

Hello, I'm new on this board and kinda new in PHP but I'm learning, I have got this piece of code now in a file called "counter.php" :

<?php

$datum = date("\admY");
$filename = "datum.txt";
$date = $datum;

$fp = fopen( $filename,"r");
$Old = fread($fp, 100);
fclose( $fp );

$Old = split ("=", $Old, 5);

$NewCount = $Old[1] + '1';

$New = "$date=$NewCount";

$fp = fopen( $filename,"w+");
if (flock($fp, 2)) {
fwrite($fp, $New, 100); }
fclose( $fp );

print "$date=$NewCount";

?>

This is an old php script I got somewhere what I just modified a bit to get the time in it. This now works. It makes a datum.txt file and in this file it adds

a30082004=01

. But now my problem; how can I let the script make another line when you look at the file tomorrow? So that the datum.txt files contains this:

a30082004=47
a31082004=56
a01092004=24

etc.

And do you guys see other things that I should have done another way, because I still have errors on some servers and on other servers I don't have any error!?

Could somebody please help me out?

Kai-Hugo

PS. the "a" in "a30082004=47" is for a thing in my flash script.

[devinemke]

you shoud really consider using a database instead of text files. anyway, this should work:

$filename = 'datum.txt';
$file_array = file($filename);
$last_line = end($file_array);
$last_line = trim($last_line);
$last_line = explode('=', $last_line);
$count = $last_line[1] + 1;
$handle = fopen($filename, 'a+');
$new_line = "\r\n" . 'a' . date('dmY') . '=' . $count;
fwrite($handle, $new_line);
fclose($handle);
echo $new_line;

[Kai-Hugo]

Thank you so much for your help, but this is not really the thing I wanted, this way I get this in the datum.txt file:

a30082004=1
a30082004=2
a30082004=3

etc

but I want just this in the file:

a30082004=25
a31082004=53
a01092004=142

etc.

is this possible??

Thanks!

(I know this is the hard way I'm doing it; I have ordered a book on PHP and MySQL because I now really see it's important to learn it, but this thing script needs to be finnished in the near future so that's why I'm asking your help 😃 )

[devinemke]

what is the relevance of the counter numbers (after the "=")?

25
53
142

what's the pattern here? also, when will this script be run? on a timed interval via a cronjob? your orginal code example simply grabs the current date. if so then you could have multiple entries on the same date. is that what you want?

[Kai-Hugo]

Ok, this script will be used as a "counter" with stats for every day, I use Flash for designing so I have to call this script with Flash. Then the PHP script has to make the 'statisctics' in the datum.txt file, and I'm doing this with the .txt file because Flash can read variables from it very easily.

The code:

a30082004=25
a31082004=53
a01092004=142

this is the code I want to have in the text file which means:

"a30082004=25" on 30 august 2004 there were 25 visitors
"a31082004=53" on 31 august 2004 there were 53 visitors
"a01092004=142" on 01 september 2004 there were 142 visitors

etcetera.

So the php file has to add the date of that day and then every time the amount of visitors. And every time there is a new visitor it has to add a number and when there's a new date it has to add this date.

I hope i explained it right and that this is not too hard.

Thanks!

Kai

[devinemke]

how bout this:

$date = date('dmY');
$filename = 'datum.txt';

$file_array = file($filename);
$last_line = explode('=', trim(end($file_array)));

if (substr($last_line[0], 1) == $date)
{
	$handle = fopen($filename, 'w');
	$count = count($file_array) - 1;
	$counter = $last_line[1] + 1;
	$file_array[$count] = $last_line[0] . '=' . $counter;
	$string = implode('', $file_array);	
}
else
{
	$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');
	$string = "\r\n" . 'a' . $date . '=1';
}

$fwrite = fwrite($handle, $string);

if ($fwrite) {echo $fwrite . ' bytes successfully written to ' . $filename;}
else {echo 'failed to write to ' . $filename;}

fclose($handle);

[Kai-Hugo]

Thanks! Man you are good! Just got one last problem, if I want the code to be:

&a30082004=221
&a31082004=254
&a01092004=267

etcetera, now all with an '&' extra,

how to change this?

Thank you! After this thingie I'm really really done with it.

Kai-Hugo

[devinemke]

change this:

$string = "\r\n" . 'a' . $date . '=1';

to this:

$string = "\r\n" . '&a' . $date . '=1';

[Kai-Hugo]

Well, I've allready tried that but then I get this again:

&a30082004=221
&a31082004=1
&a31082004=1
&a31082004=1

...

[Kai-Hugo]

Hello Devinemke could you please help me with this last question, I'm really stuck and there is some hurry. Sorry for this pressure, but I ordered a good book (as I heard) now because i really want to learn it, but before I could solve it myself, can you then help me please?

Kai-Hugo

[tsinka]

Hi,

additionally replace this line

if (substr($last_line[0],1) == $date)
by
if (substr($last_line[0], 2) == $date)

Thomas

[Kai-Hugo]

Thank you Thomas! Just one number difference! Really appreciated your help and ofcourse, thank you Devinemke! Really great you helped me making the script, couldn't have done it without you 😃!

Kai