Simple PHP Unique page hit counter stops after two counts?

Question

 <?php  

 $countfile = 'counter.txt';
 $ipfile = 'ip.txt';



 function countint(){
   $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
   global $countfile , $ipfile;


   if (!in_array($ip, file($ipfile, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES))) {
   $current = (file_exists($countfile)) ? file_get_contents($countfile) : 0;
   file_put_contents($ipfile, $ip."\n", FILE_APPEND);
    file_put_contents($countfile, ++$current);

   }



  }

  countint();
    $value =file_get_contents($countfile);

  ?>

This is this the count.php function included along with two file ip.txt and counter.txt

the count is not going past 2 hits

after two hits it stops recording the ip address

Answer 1

Give this a try. I added an elseif and in_array condition elseif (in_array...

Sidenote: It makes sense that a unique hit counter stops after 1, otherwise it wouldn't be unique.

If you want to keep counting them, you can give this a go. If it doesn't work as expected, let me know and I will try and modify it, or delete the answer altogether.

<?php  

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

 $countfile = 'counter.txt';
 $ipfile = 'ip.txt';

 function countint(){
   $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
   global $countfile , $ipfile;


   if (!in_array($ip, file($ipfile, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES))) {
   $current = (file_exists($countfile)) ? file_get_contents($countfile) : 0;
   file_put_contents($ipfile, $ip."\n", FILE_APPEND);

    file_put_contents($countfile, ++$current);

   }


   elseif (in_array($ip, file($ipfile, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES))) {
   $current = (file_exists($countfile)) ? file_get_contents($countfile) : 0;
   file_put_contents($ipfile, $ip."\n", FILE_APPEND);

    file_put_contents($countfile, ++$current);

   }

  }

  countint();
    $value =file_get_contents($countfile);

?>