Make php counter

Make php counter

Using PHP and a plain text file this has never been easier. The example below uses a flat-text database so no MySQL database is needed. 

First, lets make a new php page and also a count.txt file with just 0 digit in it. Upload the count.txt file on your web server. Depending on server configuration you may need to change the permission for this file to 777 so it is writeable by the counter script that we are going to use. Now, lets do the actual PHP code.  

<?php
$count = file_get_contents("count.txt");
$count = trim($count);
$count = $count + 1;
$fl = fopen("count.txt","w+");
fwrite($fl,$count);
fclose($fl);

include('count.txt');// Show counter
?>

First line opens the count.txt file and reads the current counter value. Then the trim() function is used to remove any new line characters so we have an integer. On the next line we increment the current counter value by one and then using the fopen, fwrite and fclose commands we write the new value to our count.txt file.