Create a bare-bones PHP Hit Counter

1.  To allow php embedded inside html to run, you must create file   .htaccess    and store it in your root Folder

.htaccess   (text file)

Contents:     AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm .cgi .php

2.  Embed PHP script in each HTML file.

Contents:

<?php include("hitcounter.php"); ?>

3.  Create, one occurance per folder, Filename:  hitcounter.php

Contents:

<?php

$filename = "hitcounter.txt";

$count= file($filename);

$count[0]++;

$file = fopen ($filename, "w") or die ("Cannot find $filename");

fputs($file, "$count[0]");

fclose($file);

echo $count[0];

?>

4.  Create, one occurance per folder, Filename:  hitcounter.txt

Contents:     1

This means each HTML file must be inside its own folder. Alternatively, each occurence of file-pairs hitcounter.php and hitcounter.txt must have different filenames to differentiate them within the same Folder.

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