Counter?

[alexjewell]

I have a client who wants the counter on their site to start at 3838. Well, I decided instead of figuring out a way to have the counter I already have start at 3838, I'd just get all of my myspace friends and I to refresh until we got that many.

Well, we were almost to 2000 when the script suddenly restarted.
It was so weird.
And I have NO idea why it did that.

Here's the script:

$file = fopen("counter.txt", "r");
$num = fgets($file,3838);
$num += 1;
fclose($file);
  
$file2 = fopen("counter.txt", "w");
fputs($file2, $num);
fclose($file2);
                
$num = $num/2;
$num = ceil($num);
                
$visits = '<i>'.$num.'</i> visits.<br />';
echo $visits; 

Then, I just include that file where I want the number of visits.

counter.txt just has "3838" in it, because I wondered if putting the number I wanted to start with in there would work.
It didn't work.

If any of you has another script, or a way to make this one work...help?

There are also some quirks:

For some reason, everytime it was adding a visit, it was adding 2 instead. So I divided $num by 2.
Then, when it was doing that, eventually it was having numbers with decimals...
So that's why I did the ceil($num) part

[apollo]

I notice you have your target conter value below
"$num = fgets($file,3838);"
That should not make a difference, as that number is being used as the number of bytes to return.

However, what about the following 2 lines:
$num = $num/2;
$num = ceil($num);

I don't think you need these, unless you only want the counter value to be half of what it really is?

I set the "counter.txt" to 3838 and removed the above lines and it seems to work fine.

So I would say just set the counter.txt to 3838 (ftp to server) and rem out the two lines in question and it should work.

[alexjewell]

I explained those two lines above:

For some reason, everytime it was adding a visit, it was adding 2 instead. So I divided $num by 2.
Then, when it was doing that, eventually it was having numbers with decimals...
So that's why I did the ceil($num) part

[apollo]

Sorry, I missed that,
I am using it like this and it seems to be consistant...

<?php
$file = fopen("counter.txt", "r");
$num = fgets($file,3838);
$num += 1;
fclose($file);

$file2 = fopen("counter.txt", "w");
fputs($file2, $num);
fclose($file2);
                
//$num = $num/2;
//$num = ceil($num);
                
$visits = '<i>'.$num.'</i> visits<br />';

echo $visits;  
?>

it's at http://debbiemerrillshow.com/counter.php

[alexjewell]

Hmm, that's so weird. For some reason, it was about seven thousand something when I included the script...
Then, when I just put the script in there, it was the right number.
Dude, that's so weird.

Well, thanks.
It's working now.
So that means a happy client.
And we like those.

[apollo]

Here Is The Counter I Use
This COUNTER script only increments once per IP address and only on the INDEX page. If you include your IP address it will not count you.
Here is a FUNCTION I use for a page counter in all my scripts.

/*
****************************************
Function page_hits
****************************************/
#----- http://www.iwcomm.com/ -----#
function page_hits(){

	#-----Finds Path To File-----#
	@session_start();
	$exp=explode('/',$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
	$ref='';
	$n=4;
	while(!strpos($exp[$n],'php')){
		$ref.= '../';
		$n++;
	}
	#-----For Testing -----#
	//echo 'site_root = '.$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/include/hitcounter.dat<br />';
	//$COUNT_FILE = $ref."include/hitcounter.dat";
	
	#-----Path To Data File-----#
	$COUNT_FILE = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/inc/hitcounter.dat";

	#-----Make Sure Data File Exists-----#
	if (file_exists($COUNT_FILE)){
		#-----Opens The Data File And Gets Current Value-----#
		$fp = fopen("$COUNT_FILE", "r+");
		flock($fp, 1);
		$count = fgets($fp, 4096);
		#-----Check To See If It Is OK To Increment-----#
		if(($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $_SESSION['SERVER_IP'] && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $_SESSION['CURRENT_IP']) && ($_SESSION['PAGE']=='/index.php')){
			#-----Increment The Data File-----#
			$count += 1;
			#-----Set The Current Users IP Address-----#
			$_SESSION['CURRENT_IP'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
		}
		#-----Update And Close The Data File-----#	
		fseek($fp,0);
		fputs($fp, $count);
		flock($fp, 3);
		fclose($fp);
	}else{
		#-----Set Displayed Counter Value If An Error Occured-----#
		$count = 'Many';
	}
	#-----Set Count Session Value And Return $count Values
	$_SESSION['count'] = $count;
	return $count;
}

Variables Used:

$COUNT_FILE - Name of the counter data text file (chmod 666) on server
$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] - Your server base path
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] - IP address of user connecting to your server
$_SESSION['SERVER_IP'] - Your local IP address (when connecting to the server)
$_SESSION['CURRENT_IP'] - Set by script to prevent duplicate count per session
$_SESSION['PAGE'] - Will only count hits on this page
$_SESSION['count'] - Current counter value

Usage:
I call it from a page "footer" file, so it appears on all pages.

<?page_hits()?><?=COUNT_SITE_HAS?> <?=$_SESSION['count']?> <?=COUNT_VISITORS?>

Looks Like:
This Site Has Had 244 Visitors Since January 1st, 2007

[apollo]

Great...
I just posted a smarter counter!

Good Luck!

[alexjewell]

Alright, I may use yours in the future.
Thanks.