[snip] This has a race condition where a busy server, or even a not-so-busy one where 2 people happen to click at the same time, at least one of them will be "missed", at best.
There's also a distinct possiblity of the counter file getting completely trashed, depending on the OS and its underlying atomicity of fwrite(). And, finally, you'd need "w+" in that fopen() to avoid wiping out the old data to start with. For this reason, and more, you're almost-for-sure better off keeping track in a database which solves all the nasty race condition issues. [/snip] Exactly, YMMV -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
