Hi, > ... You can write a single byte to the file to "increment" the counter, then to read the count just use filesize(). I believe the a fopen() mode will handle locking for you. It will result in a slowly growing file, but space isn't exactly at a premium nowadays, and when the file gets to a certain size (eg 1 gazillion k) you could use a summary file. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 graphing: RGraph - www.rgraph.net (updated 25th July) Lots of PHP and Javascript code - http://www.phpguru.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php