Unique counter

[perkins_dp]

I have a unique counter made on my new page, im just wondering if there is a way to have it start above 0 to show the hits from before i uploaded my new page. I have looked all over and cant seem to find a straight answer,

 

perkins_dp

[iPixel]

Can we see some code?

[perkins_dp]

im using this and using an include in my main file,

 

<?

 

$filename = "counter.txt";

 

$file = file($filename);

$file = array_unique($file);

$hits = count($file);

echo $hits;

 

$fd = fopen ($filename , "r");

$fstring = fread ($fd , filesize ($filename));

fclose($fd);

$fd = fopen ($filename , "w");

$fcounted = $fstring."\n".getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");

$fout= fwrite ($fd , $fcounted );

fclose($fd);

 

?>

[iPixel]

So is your problem that you keep overwriting what's in the counter.txt file?

So each time it starts with 0 + the 1 that would be the viewer?

[perkins_dp]

no no sorry if im not making much sense, the code works fine and increments by one for every unique hit, but I just put it on my new site and the hits started fresh at 0 where i had 13,500 on my older version of the site and im wondering if there is a way to make my new counter start at this number

[iPixel]

Couldnt you just place the counter.txt file from the old website into the new one and have the counter pick up from there?

[perkins_dp]

i wish i could, when last developed we used a counter script from a site and didnt have a counter.txt for the last, i thought there would be something to add in the code to tell it to start from a certain number but i cant seem to find anything

[iPixel]

What you use, basically in opens counter.txt and reads the amount of entries "IP's".

I dont think you can script it to know it should be 13,500 more unless you do

 

echo $hits + 13500;

 

so essentially you start with 13500 as opposed to 0; or rather you simply tack on 13500 to your $hits. It's cheating but it would work.