Shoutbox

Wouldn't

code:

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<?php
    $filename = "count.txt";
    $x = file_get_contents("$filename");
    $x = $x+1;
    file_put_contents("$filename", $x);
    echo $x;
?>

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be simpler?
Or, if there's a PHP equivalent of C's scanf, use that to read the number from the file, and a printf equivalent to write it.