# Newbie to PHP = Cant get hit counter to work

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-to-php-cant-get-hit-counter-to-work/72929>\
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**Created:** [December 10, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-to-php-cant-get-hit-counter-to-work/72929 "2004-12-10T16:23:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_I\_R\_H\_E\_A\_D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@A\_I\_R\_H\_E\_A\_D](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/A_I_R_H_E_A_D)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-to-php-cant-get-hit-counter-to-work/72929/1 "2004-12-10T16:23:14Z")

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Hi all

I have been trawling around the web trying to find a source of help in creating my own hit counter. I have been to the kirupa tutorial page and had a play with the offering there but I just can’t get it to work.

Online, the Flash movie can see the text file, if I change the value of count it reflects in the movie, but it won’t change manually.

I have reset the chmod settings etc, but to no avail. One thing that I couldn’t see was the location to which each component was to be uploaded.

Another thing that I was worried about was that my ISP suggests that each perl script should begin:

#!/usr/bin/perl –

which isn’t in the instructions.

Being totally new to this server side stuff I am totally at a loss, please help

AH