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Reading Article Author: Haldred Posted on 08/03/2004 A Quick, and Easy Text-Counter

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First create an EMPTY file called counter.txt.
Then create a File called counter.php.

In counter.php include the following script:

$file = 'counter.txt';

if(!file_exists($file))
{
$handle = fopen($file, 'w');
fwrite($handle, 0);
fclose($handle);
}

$count = file_get_contents($file);
$count++;

if(is_writable($file))
{
$handle = fopen($file, 'w+');
fwrite($handle, $count);
fclose($handle);
}
else
{
echo 'Could not increment the counter!
';
}

echo number_format($count).' Hits';
?>



then save. Upload this to your server. Then on your HTML(or whatever) file, make sure it ISNT .htm/.html, it must be .php.

Then, where you want the counter to appear put this code:

include(counter.php);
?>

Any support needed? BMS me. Or, you can download the .zip of this tutorial(it contains counter.php, and counter.txt)
at: http://xtremesoftware.uni.cc/counter.zip

Enjoy.
-Haldred