Inserting a counter...

[Ksilebo]

I'm trying to insert a counter somewhere within my board, but cant figure out the best place to do it.

Basically, its a single line that calls a count.php file...

PHP Code:

<?
### IMAGE FORMAT
$format = ".png";

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$file = file("count.txt");
$num = ($file[0] + 1);
exec("echo $num > count.txt");
switch($type) {
 case "text":
  echo $num;
  break;
 case "gfx":
  $i = 0;
  $cntn = strlen($num);
  while($i < $cntn) {
   $tmpnum = substr($num, $i, 1);
   echo("<img src=\"$dir/$tmpnum$format\">");
   $i++;
  }
  break;
 case "q":
 break;
 default:
 echo("count.php <b>error</b> : type not specified.");
 break;
}
?>

And the little line of code that should spit out an image is this...

PHP Code:

$type = "gfx"; $dir = "counter"; include("count.php"); 


Where should I put this? I tried a few things, but couldnt get it right.

[noppid]

Count.txt needs to be in a writable folder most likely.

[Ksilebo]

Its writeable, but thats not the issue.

The issue is where/what file to put the code in. count.php is seperate, but where to put the include() for it.

[noppid]

Assuming you want the counter to fire on hits to forum_home put it in the index.php. I'd put it just before the very last eval at the bottom of the file myself.

[Ksilebo]

My index just becomes a blank page.

[noppid]

Now that I look at the code, I see a few issues that seem to be show stoppers. The switch statement uses $type, but $type is not set.

The output would need to be intergrated into a template to display.

[Ksilebo]

How exactly do I do that?