Counter Prob

[AndrewP]

Hi all,

Fairly new to PHP so still learning... Am running the below on all my footers on a site as a basic page impression counter. It works fine, adding up but every time it hits a 5 digit number (10,000, 20,000, 30,000 etc.) it ends up zeroing itself and starting again. Any ideas?

<?php
$viewss = file("counterlog.txt");
$views = $viewss[0]; $views++;
$fp = fopen("counterlog.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $views);
fclose($fp);
?>

Any help appreciated...

[paulnaj]

Can't think why at all ... try a bit of debugging (if you haven't already) ...

<?php
$viewss = file("counterlog.txt");
echo '<hr>Whole file:<br><pre>'.join('', $viewss).'</pre><hr>';

$views = $viewss[0];
echo '<hr>First line:<br><pre>'.join('', $views).'</pre><hr>';

$views++;
echo '<hr>After inc:<br><pre>'.join('', $views).'</pre><hr>';

$fp = fopen("counterlog.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $views);
fclose($fp);
?>

See how that goes ...

Paul 🙂