displaying a number counting up

thinguy

I want to display a number on a web page , say "250" for now but I'll manually change it periodically, but I want the number to increment up every second or so.

I found the bit of code below but it prints all the numbers in the range.
I want it to print "1" wait n amount of time then delete '1' and print '2' wait n and delete '2' and print '3', etc. all the way up to X. Then have X stay on the screen.

Am I making sense?

<?php

for ($number = 1; $number <= 10; $number++) {
echo $number . '<br>';
}

Pehape

sorry, what's your purpose with that? or you mean like a counter hit or what?

thinguy

No it's not a hit counter. It's for a game site. I want to display the total number of games on the site. The number is actually in SQL but I figured it would be easier to just display the number. And change the code whenever I install new games.

NogDog

Sounds like a job for JavaScript, not PHP. (PHP might be used to set the initial value, but you'd need JavaScript to do the automatic incrementing on the client side.)

jcanker

NogDog is right..Php can display dynamic content, but isn't an application in the way that you are thinking about it. You can create an applet or flash type of product to do your counting and then include that inside the php page, but in order for php to do anything remotely close to what you want, the page would have to refresh to display the new number.