# Php counter
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 13, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832 "2003-05-13T23:26:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/1 "2003-05-13T23:26:54Z")
I did a search, please don’t beat me too hard if this has been asked a million times.
How could I make a hit counter in PHP? Just a simple text one.
I’m sure it would be an easy task and I have a semi-solid idea how to do it, I just don’t really know how to code it.
I was thinking you would set up a variable that would just be increased each time someone visited a page and that number would be drawn from the text file and displayed. I’m not worried about IP stuffs or anything.
Any help would be thuper
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/2 "2003-05-13T23:27:47Z")
there ya go 😉
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18524&highlight=\*counter\*](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18524&highlight=%2Acounter%2A)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/3 "2003-05-13T23:28:02Z")
[http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/tutorials/list.php?cat\_id=2](http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/tutorials/list.php?cat_id=2)
theres a tutorial for a counter on that page…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/4 "2003-05-13T23:28:52Z")
hmmmm grrrrrr
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/5 "2003-05-13T23:33:39Z")
> \*Originally posted by ahmed \*
> \*\*
```auto
<?php
$handle = fopen("counter.txt", "r");
$contents = fgets($handle, 4096);
$temp = sprintf("%d", $contents);
$temp++;
fclose($handle);
$handle = fopen("counter.txt", "w");
fputs($handle, "$temp");
fclose($handle);
echo ($temp);
?>
```
this should do it 🙂 \*\*
ok i found that, and im assuming that is what you would put in the html page that would load the variable, but what would be in the txt file?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/6 "2003-05-13T23:36:23Z")
that is a php file.
save a text file with the extention .php
so that would be
“counter.php”
then make a text file called “counter.txt”
and then in Flash you would loadVariables from counter.php
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/7 "2003-05-13T23:38:02Z")
I’m not doin it in flash:P
I just tried the link you said jubba, and I’m uploading right now to see if it worked
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/8 "2003-05-13T23:39:05Z")
[http://xxviii.net/](http://xxviii.net/)
do you see that big 'ol ugly thingy too?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/9 "2003-05-13T23:39:21Z")
oh ok, you don’t want flash, then you would use the same code. that prints out the number you want 🙂 check out that tutorial, it should be of use… if you don’t know php then Ahmed’s explanation might not help too much…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/10 "2003-05-13T23:42:29Z")
haha oops… i didnt have it CHMODed
sorry for the dumb post
thanks a ton jubba and ahmed
really helpful as always
just a quick question, how can i edit the color and stuff it displays in?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/11 "2003-05-14T00:07:02Z")
print out font tags before and after you print out the varialbe…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/12 "2003-05-14T00:52:41Z")
thanks jubba… got it all worked out now… i even get how it works
thanks for puttin up with me:beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/13 "2003-05-14T01:01:11Z")
> \*Originally posted by Jubba \*
> \*\*hmmmm grrrrrr \*\*
> sorry jubbs 😛 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-counter/20832/14 "2003-05-14T01:48:33Z")
always beating me! 😛