<?php ?> Unique Visitors Script Flat file unique visitors script (no sessions)

This is really simple script. Well at least this part is, but it could be extendable. Only problem is that it's not really for massive websites with hundread of visitors a day, but rather for small ones. But it is a good script to figure out how to make a visitor counter script.

Anyway here's the snippet.

<?phpfunction getVisits($variable) {	$visits = array();	if ($handle = opendir('stats/')) {	while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {		if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {			array_push($visits, $file);		}	}	closedir($handle);	}	$key = array_search($variable, $visits);		if ($key !== FALSE) {				echo "Posjeta do sada: ".count($visits);			}	elseif ($key === FALSE){		$file = fopen("stats/".$variable, 'a');		fwrite($file, $variable);		fclose($file);			getVisits($variable);	}}?>

Just call it with getVisits($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])., and be sure to have that stats directory in same root as file in which script is executed.

Comments or improvments are welcome.

Good work! Looks pretty good to me. I might use this but maybe use MySql instead of flat files. I just like SQL

Ok, fast reply works again :PYeah, mySQL is great, this is like i stated for small sites with less than 10(0) visitors a day . I'm extending the script so it saves in directories based on a date value, and stuff like that, so that later i don't have like millions of files.