Following is a simple way to log number of visitors to your site, there is no need of any database, it uses flat files (plain textfiles) only.

Create an empty file named sitestats.txt.

Create a php file, call it sitecounter.php or something, and put it in the same directory as the sitestats.txt file.

Following is PHP code:

Following is the explaination of PHP script

1. Define the textfile with stats
2. Read the stats from the file
3. increase the stats with 1
4. open the stats file in writing mode
5. write to the file
6. close the file
7. and finally, print out the content

This post was last modified: 07-18-2007 07:20 PM by admin.