Problems getting hit counter to wait one hour before updating/logging last ip

[chrisdee]

Hello. Im trying to make a hit counter that logs
ip,browser, date and time. It works ok, except that I would
like it to wait logging hits from last IP for one hour.

How do I modify my script to do this ? Below is my script :

<?php 
# Defines variables 
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; 
$date = date('d.m.Y'); 
$time = date('H.i.s'); 

# Open file 
$file = file('hits.txt'); 

# Print out to screen 
foreach ($file as $line) { 
 print "$line<br>"; 
} 

# Adds one step for each entry 
$count = count($file) + 1; 

# Exclude ip-addresses that already exists in the text file 
if(in_array($ip." :: ".$browser." :: ".$date." :: ".$time."\n",$file) and (time() + (3600))>$time) { 
 # Do nothing 
} 
else { 
 # Writes to file 
 $write = fopen('hits.txt', 'a'); 
 fwrite($write, $ip." :: ".$browser." :: ".$date." :: ".$time."\n"); 
 fclose($write); 
} 
?>

[chrisdee]

Sorry for hassling but I would greatly apreciate some help on this.

[n_wattam]

this is quite simple really,

you need to write a function to ready in your data from the txt file which you store your information, and hold it in an array.

Then you need a IF statement to check if that IP already exists within the array, and if it does run a second check to compair the times by the hour which you require

[n_wattam]

Try using the unix time stamp code instead, of running if statements on an actual date