php hit counter problems

ukch · 11-28-2003, 10:33 AM

I have a problem with a php script on my website. Here is the script:

<?php
$count_my_page = ("hitcount.txt");
$hits = file($count_my_page);
$hits[0] ++;
$fp = fopen($count_my_page , "w");
fputs($fp , "$hits[0]");
fclose($fp);
echo $hits[0];
?>

This script used to work fine, but as soon as I uploaded it onto my site and reset it to 0 it has not been updating since.

The text file has permissions 666.

Does anyone have ideas?

dkaplowitz · 11-28-2003, 11:00 AM

Does the site you uploaded it to have PHP support enabled?

What is the output of the phpinfo() tag on your site?

ukch · 11-28-2003, 11:20 AM

Yes, the site does have php support. (all the other php scripts work fine)

Also, I forgot to mention, the hit counter doesn't work on my localhost any more either.

I have checked all through the code for bugs, but it is the same as it always was. I can't see any reason why it should stop working...

RTT · 11-28-2003, 04:02 PM

what does $hits[0] echo out as?

mymojo · 11-29-2003, 05:48 AM

Try text file permissions 775 or 777

ukch · 11-29-2003, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RTT
what does $hits[0] echo out as?

$hits[0] echoes 0 (the contents of the txt file)

mymojo: Tried both. I have a feeling it should be 666.

david_ross · 11-29-2003, 03:25 PM

Try changing:
$hits[0] ++;
to:
$hits[0]+=1;

mymojo · 11-30-2003, 02:10 AM

Try starting off with number of hits as 1 (in hitcount.txt).

ukch · 11-30-2003, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by david_ross
Try changing:
$hits[0] ++;
to:
$hits[0]+=1;

It worked! Thanks!

I'll click your afro right now!

mymojo · 12-03-2003, 03:51 PM

I think it could be $hits[0]++; as well (the space between the ++ and the [0] could have made it fail to work - $hits[0] ++; )