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Title :	Simple PHP cookie counter
Categories :	PHP, Cookies, Beginner Guides	Shashank Prabhakara
Date :	Oct 31st 2008
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A simple and fast counter for beginners and low bandwidth sites

<?php

$counterFile = "/home/httpd/html/counter/counter.text";

function displayCounter($counterFile) {
global $counted
$fp = fopen($counterFile,rw);
$num = fgets($fp,5);
if (!$counted) {
$num += 1;
unlink("$counterFile");
exec("echo $num > $counterFile");
}
print "$num";
}

if (!file_exists($counterFile)) {
exec("echo 1 > $counterFile");
}

displayCounter($counterFile);
?>

/* Add the following to the very top of the page you want to count */

<?php if (!$counted) { setcookie("counted",1,time()+600); } ?>

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User Comments

Jason Hopkins wrote :1818
Sorry for the low grade, but it should be common knowledge to not break into and out of the PHP tags. Also, putting an entire if construct on one line really irks me.