[Thomas P]

Here's the file based counter I use now, which breaks ~3 times a day:

// ipcounter hack by CX
// config
// create these two files count.txt and ip.txt, chmod them to 777
$count_file = "counter.txt";
$ip_file = "counter_ip.txt";
$userip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');  // in some fixed IP server, change this line to $userip = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');

$count_temp=file($count_file);
$ip_temp=file($ip_file);

$detail=explode("|",$count_temp[0]);
$count_t=getdate(time());
$count_day=$count_t['mday'];

if ($detail[0]==$count_day) {
    $detail[1]++;
    $detail[2]++;

    $count=count($ip_temp);
    $check=1;
    for ($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) {
        $ip_list=str_replace("\r","",str_replace("\n","",$ip_temp[$i]));
        if ($ip_list==$userip) $check=0;
    }
    if ($check==1) {
        $detail[3]++;
        $detail[4]++;
        $fp=fopen($ip_file,"a");
        flock($fp,3);
        fputs($fp,$userip."\n");
        fclose($fp);
    }
}
else {
    $detail[0]=$count_day;
    $detail[1]=1;
    $detail[3]=1;
    $detail[2]++;
    $detail[4]++;
    $fp=fopen($ip_file,"w");
    flock($fp,3);
    fputs($fp,$userip."\n");
    fclose($fp);
}

$new=implode("|",$detail);
$fp=fopen($count_file,"w");
flock($fp,3);
fputs($fp,$new);
fclose($fp);

// end ipcounter hack

$i = $HTTP_GET_VARS['i'];

Thanks,
-Tom