Visits counter without database with PHP

Question

I have a single webpage and i would like to track how many times it\'s visited without using a database.

I thought about XML, updating a file every time a user visit

Answer 1

 
   */ 

  // Open the file for reading 
  $fp = fopen("counterlog.txt", "r"); 

  // Get the existing count 
  $count = fread($fp, 1024); 

  // Close the file 
  fclose($fp); 

  // Add 1 to the existing count 
  $count = $count + 1; 

  // Display the number of hits 
  // If you don't want to display it, comment out this line    
  echo "
Page views:" . $count . "
"; 

  // Reopen the file and erase the contents 
  $fp = fopen("counterlog.txt", "w"); 

  fwrite($fp, $count); 

  // Close the file 
  fclose($fp); 

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