Shoutbox

Does anybody know how I can use Awstats to make a hit counter, I want it a text hit counter on my site, showing the "Hits" that I have received.

Not unique .

if your using php...

code:

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<?php
$file = fopen("counter.txt", "r+");
$file++;
fwrite("counter.txt", $file);
echo $file;
?>

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I haven't tested it out, but it should work.

I'm no PHP person, but wouldn't you have a problem with '$file++;'?

that makes the number increase by one.

and $file-- make it, yes you guessed it, decrease by 1

Looks more to me like (Increase file pointer by 1', or have I just too much C++?

im not sure, i did that pretty quickly, i can't remember if $file = fread() will put the file contents in the var, or make it some sort of identification var. WDZ WDZ WDZ where for art thou?

nah you need to do stuff in this order

fopen with r parameter to read it
fread it
store in a variable
fclose
fopen again with w parameter to clear it and prepare it for writing
add 1 to the variable
fwrite
and then echo it

code:

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<?
$counter = fopen("counter.txt", "r");
$blah = fread($counter, filesize("counter.txt"));
fclose($counter);
$counter = fopen("counter.txt", "w");
$blah = $blah + 1; //not sure if $blah++ would work, try it
fwrite($counter, $blah);
fclose($counter);
echo $blah;
?>

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$blah++;
would work, it simply adds one.

LJ's code looks more correct to me.
You gotta remember though, I don't know any PHP.

quote:

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Originally posted by Veggie
$blah++;
would work, it simply adds one.

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yeh but what if the txt file contains like "1000 hits" ?

it wouldnt change to 1001 because its not all integers

EDIT: actually in this case mine wouldnt work