GD image counter.

[elcius]

i made a very basic hit counter, it works fine, untill i try to print the count on an image and send it to the use

<?php

$datalog = explode(",",file_get_contents("mi_datalog.txt"));
$views = $datalog[0]+1;
$last_act = time()-$datalog[1];

if($last_act>=86400)$last_act = round(($last_act-($last_act%86400))/86400)." days";
elseif($last_act>=3600)$last_act = round(($last_act-($last_act%3600))/3600)." hours";
elseif($last_act>=60)$last_act = round(($last_act-($last_act%60))/60)." minutes";
else $last_act .= " seconds";

$my_time = date("h:i:s a");
$nst = date("h:i:s a",time()-68400);

$my_np = "11,942";

$fp = fopen("mi_datalog.txt","w");
fwrite($fp,$views.",".$datalog[1]);
fclose($fp);

$im = imagecreatefrompng("base.png");

$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 62, 29, 0);
$font = imageloadfont("font.gdf");

imagestring($im, $font, 82, 38, $views, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 50, $nst, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 69, $my_np, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 81, $last_act, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 93, $my_time, $textcolor);

header("Content-type: image/png");

imagepng($im);
?> 

this doesnt work, it jumps up 2 counts insted of just 1.

<?php

$datalog = explode(",",file_get_contents("mi_datalog.txt"));
$views = $datalog[0]+1;
$last_act = time()-$datalog[1];

if($last_act>=86400)$last_act = round(($last_act-($last_act%86400))/86400)." days";
elseif($last_act>=3600)$last_act = round(($last_act-($last_act%3600))/3600)." hours";
elseif($last_act>=60)$last_act = round(($last_act-($last_act%60))/60)." minutes";
else $last_act .= " seconds";

$my_time = date("h:i:s a");
$nst = date("h:i:s a",time()-68400);

$my_np = "11,942";

$fp = fopen("mi_datalog.txt","w");
fwrite($fp,$views.",".$datalog[1]);
fclose($fp);

$im = imagecreatefrompng("base.png");

$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 62, 29, 0);
$font = imageloadfont("font.gdf");

imagestring($im, $font, 82, 38, $views, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 50, $nst, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 69, $my_np, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 81, $last_act, $textcolor);
imagestring($im, $font, 82, 93, $my_time, $textcolor);

die($views);
header("Content-type: image/png");

imagepng($im);
?> 

in this one the counter works, yet all i did was kill the script just before its returned as an image, i just dont get whats going on.
there is somthing in that very last line imagepng that makes the count, (one that should of already been writen) just up 1 more, then get writen.

[elcius]

I know bumping a topic is a bit rude, but i don't know were else to look for help. this almost looks like a php bug to me.

[Weedpacket]

die($views);
header("Content-type: image/png");

imagepng($im);

Um, if you're killing the script before it produces its output ... how does it produce its output? I certainly don't see anything doing anything like what you're describing.

[elcius]

yea sorry, i just relised that it only seems to be counting in 2's on my localhost (php5), on my server it seems to be working fine both with image output and without, so very strange.