Hit counter using php

Welcome, this tutorial will guide you on how to make a PHP hit counter.

Also check Graphical Hit Counter using PHP
Requirments: You should know the basics to a file system unit. Means you need to create a text file which is writable.

Step 1: Create a PHP script called ‘counter.php’ and a text file called ‘hits.txt’ WITH a value of 0 [You Just Create A Text File And Put Number ZERO On That And Save It], if you are not doing this your counter script wont work.Make sure the TXT file it has enough permissions.

Review: You should now have 2 files open, ‘counter.php’ open with nothing in it and ‘hits.txt’ open with a ‘0’ in it.

Step 2: CLOSE ‘hits.txt’ (We don’t need it any more for now) Now we need to start PHP coding, so first we do is enter the basic page outline as used in most php pages.

Step 3: Now we need to read the file hits.txt using a PHP script, this code is outlined below.

$open = fopen("hits.txt", "r+");
$value = fgets($open);
$close = fclose($open);
$value++;

Review: You now can read the file, and it will double, hence the ‘$value++;’,

Step 4: Now we should output the new number to the file. This is the easy part.

$open = fopen("hits.txt", "w+");
fwrite($open, $value); // variable is not restated, bug fixed.
$close = fclose($open);

Review: Now we have the number plus one in the file ‘hits.txt’.

Step 5: Let’s echo the value so that it can be included anywhere.

echo $value;

Final Talk: Ok, so now your PHP file should look like this:

$open = fopen("hits.txt", "r+");
$value = fgets($open);
$close = fclose($open);

$value++;

$open = fopen("hits.txt", "w+");
fwrite($open, $value); // variable is not restated, bug fixed.
$close = fclose($open);

echo $value;

?>

Note: This script works perfectly fine for low traffic website. As it is using simple text file as a counter there are lot of restrictions. High traffic website must use a Database like MySQL to increment the counter.

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