Good day to everyone from a new member - does anyone know what's happened to devnetwork.net today? Oops... probably a rude word here?

I wonder if anyone can help me out here - being a relative newcomer to coding, myself - so that I can make some headway with my little tracking script.

I've written a nice hit counter script that works well:

<?
//A small but effective script to echo the number of hits contained in a flatfile database,
//to be manipulated as necessary.

$fh = fopen("hits.txt","r+");
$current = file_get_contents("hits.txt");
echo $current;
$current++;
fwrite($fh,$current);
fclose($fh);
?>

This works perfectly as a hit counter, and I want to develop it a little so that it displays hits for the current and previous months (not total hits)- without the use of an SQL database. This way, I can echo the contents of the text file in a tracking suite instead of on the web page being tracked, capiche?

Anyone have any ideas? All help gratefully received!

Thanks in advance,

Matt Cooper

You could use the date function to get the month then prefix the hits.txt with the month. this would give you a txt file for every month containing the number of hits... eg jan_hits.txt, feb_hits.txt and so on.

<?php
$month = date ("F");
$fh = fopen("$month.txt","r+");
$current = file_get_contents("$month.txt");
echo $current;
$current++;
fwrite($fh,$current);
fclose($fh);
?>
somthing like that? tho i'm not 100% sure that would work, even do you get the idea?