ignore them } else { $counter_file_name = "counter.dat"; $counter_file_pointer = @fopen($counter_file_name,"r"); if ($counter_file_pointer) { $counter=fgets($counter_file_pointer,10); fclose($counter_file_pointer); } else { $counter=1004050; }; $counter++; //print $counter; $counter_file_pointer = fopen($counter_file_name,"w"); if ($counter_file_pointer) { $x=fputs($counter_file_pointer,$counter); fclose($counter_file_pointer); }; } ?>