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Flat file hit counter

So you need to track hits to your website but don’t want to use a database or don’t have access to a database server. You can still do this by using a flat file on your server. Copy the following code to your website where you want to show/count the hits.

<?php
$file = 'hits.dat'; // File where data is stored
$fp = fopen($file, "r");  // Open file as read only
$count = fread ($fp, filesize($file)); // Read hits
fclose($fp); // Close file
$count++; // Add 1 to the count
$fp = fopen($file, "w"); // Open file for writing
fwrite($fp, $count); // Write the count
fclose($fp); // Close file
echo "Load $count times";
?>

If you wanted to only show the code without updating the hits use the following code:

<?php
$file = 'hits.dat'; // File where data is stored
$fp = fopen($file, "r");  // Open file as read only
$count = fread ($fp, filesize($file)); // Read hits
fclose($fp); // Close file
echo "Load $count times";
?>