Dear Richard, I don't quite know how I can write a bite into a file. I also looked into a manual and couldn't find a mention of FLock-ing in the explaination for FOpen parameters. Thanks a lot for your help. -- --- Contact info: Skype: parham-d MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com email: parham90 at GMail dot com "Richard Heyes" <richard@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:af8726440908020221r22e1efb3g321ba4140bfa42d6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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