Help with simple text-based PHP hit counter

[Iconoclast]

Hi guys, I'm trying to put a really simple text-based PHP hit counter in the footer of my page...but I'm getting two PHP errors when I use what I'm trying to do:

Here is the section of code in my footer that has all the basic footer info:

	<div id="footer">

	<div class="left">&copy;2001-2009 <a href="http://paulritter.net">paulritter.net</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Valid <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a> &amp; <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">XHTML</a></div>

	<div class="right">Design and coding by <a href="http://paulritter.net/about">Paul Ritter</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="<?=$this->url('/login')?>"><?=t('&lt; Login &gt;')?></a></div>

    [COLOR="Red"]<br /><div class="right">Total Hits:
<?

$filename = "hit_counter.txt";
@$fptr = fopen($filename, "r+");

if ($fptr == NULL) {
    @$fptr = fopen($filename, "w+");
    fwrite($fptr, "1");
    fclose($fptr);
    echo "1";
}
else {
    $data = fread($fptr, filesize($filename));
    $dataInt = (int) $data;
    $dataInt++;
    rewind($fptr);
    fwrite($fptr, $dataInt);
    fclose($fptr);
    echo $dataInt;
}
?></div>[/COLOR]

	<div class="clearer"><span></span></div>

</div>

</div>

And I have a file called "hit_counter.txt" in the SAME directory as this PHP file. I have chmodded it to 777, so it should be writable.

Here are the errors I'm getting:

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/a9712442/public_html/themes/halloween/default.php on line 35

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/a9712442/public_html/themes/halloween/default.php on line 36

Line 35 & 36 are these lines:

    fwrite($fptr, "1");
    fclose($fptr);

I looked up the error, and I thought it would be a permissions issue...but after chmodding the hit_counter.txt file to 777, I can't think why this error still occurs. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 😃

[ixalmida]

Maybe this is the noob in me, but I don't understand your use of the @ symbol. I know it isn't necessary, and I was under the impression @ was only used to suppress error messages. So in this case I have to wonder why you are suppressing errors on the one line where it might actually tell you something useful (like that it can't open your file for some reason).

[Iconoclast]

Hey, sorry I never posted back...I figured it out...turns out it was looking for the ht_counter.txt file in my /public_html/ directory, not in the directory where my PHP file was. Silly me. Thanks anyways! 😃