help with read visits.txt file

[vinny.benson]

Hi,

On my homepage i have a php script that writes the date (format: d/m/Y) to the text file "visits.txt".

and i want a code on another page that will open the text file and count each date.

e.g.

visits.txt

01/04/2010, 01/04/2010, 01/04/2010, 01/04/2010, 29/03/2010, 29/03/2010

output:

01/04/2010 = 4
29/03/2010 = 2

[Nile]

Put this on the page you're counting dates:

<?php
$file = fopen('date.txt', 'a');
fwrite($file, " ".date("d/m/Y"));
fclose($file);
?>

Make a blank txt file named date.txt, and then where you want to add up all the dates, put this:

<?php
$file = file_get_contents("date.txt");
$file = explode(" ", $file);
array_shift($file);
$dates = array();
foreach($file as $key => $value){
  if(!isset($dates[$value])){
    $dates[$value] = 1;
  } else {
    $dates[$value]++;
  }
}
foreach($dates as $key => $value){
  echo $key . ' = '.$value .'<br />';
}

[vinny.benson]

yey, thank you so much that worked perfectly

[vinny.benson]

sorry just one more question

in this code, how would I get the date with the highest count

<?php
$file = file_get_contents("date.txt");
$file = explode(" ", $file);
array_shift($file);
$dates = array();
foreach($file as $key => $value){
  if(!isset($dates[$value])){
    $dates[$value] = 1;
  } else {
    $dates[$value]++;
  }
}
foreach($dates as $key => $value){
  echo $key . ' = '.$value .'<br />';
}
?>

basically i want to output this:

01/04/2010 = 4
29/03/2010 = 2

most views on: 01/04/2010 (4)

[vinny.benson]

doesn't matter, i figured it out

<?php
$max = max($dates);
echo 'most views: ' . $max;
?>

[Nile]

No problem, glad to help.

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