Make Your own PHP Hit Counter

This is a basic site hit counter. What it does is take a few lines of code that open up a file called ( countlog.txt) and changes a simple number in it. First off, what you need to do is make a new ( .php) file in your text editor and place this code in it. The only thing you may need to change is the parts of the code that says ( /countlog.txt ). That’s only if you plan to put your files in a different directory. I put this in the same directory, so I put the ( / ) in front of ( countlog.txt )

<?php
/* counter */
/* opens countlog.txt to read the number of hits */
$data = fopen("/countlog.txt", "r");
$count = fgets($data,1000);
fclose($data);
$count = $count + 1;
echo "$count";
echo "hits";
echo "\n";
/* opens countlog.txt to change new hit number */
$data = fopen("/countlog.txt", "w");
fwrite($data, $count);
fclose($data);
?>

Save the file as ( counter.php ).
Now, on to the next part. Simply make a file named ( countlog.txt ) and put a ( 0 ) in it. Then save. Or, you could put whatever number you want to in the file. This is the number your, counter will start counting from. If your last hit counter was already at 22 hits, why start over? Just type in ( 22 ) in the
( countlog.txt) file!

To include the file in any page in your site all you have to do is include it. Here’s the code.

<?php
include("/counter.php");
?>

Or

<script src="/counter.php" type="javascript/text"/>

You may have to change the path on that as well, depending on what directory you put your file in. Or, you could just put the ( counter.php ) code inside of any page you want. It will work the same.