RPatton
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OK, I just tried it without the echo and it still doesn't work.
Is my HTML code correct? Am I calling the PHP file properly? I can't shake the feeling that the problem lies in the way I am calling the PHP file.
I created a test page to try and debug this and here is my entire basic HTML test page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Hit Counter</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="visitor-count">Number of visitors since 12-10-2016:</div>
<img alt="Hit counter" src="counter.php" />
</body>
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It is a path to a bunch of number images. I could be wrong (again I'm very new at this) but I don't think it is getting to the PHP file or I would be getting an error from the PHP.
This is my PHP code and the paths are correct. Thanks for all your input.
<?php
session_start();
$counter_name = "counter.txt";
// Check if a text file exists. If not create one and initialize it to zero.
if (!file_exists($counter_name)) {
$f = fopen($counter_name, "w");
fwrite($f,"0");
fclose($f);
}
// Read the current value of the counter file
$f = fopen($counter_name,"r");
$counterVal = fread($f, filesize($counter_name));
fclose($f);
// Has visitor been counted in this session?
// If not, increase counter value by one
if(!isset($_SESSION['hasVisited'])){
$_SESSION['hasVisited']="yes";
$counterVal++;
$f = fopen($counter_name, "w");
fwrite($f, $counterVal);
fclose($f);
}
$counterVal = str_pad($counterVal, 6, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
$chars = preg_split('//', $counterVal);
$im = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/canvas.png"); // Transparent canvas that my numbers will sit on top of
$src1 = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/$chars[1].png");
$src2 = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/$chars[2].png");
$src3 = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/$chars[3].png");
$src4 = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/$chars[4].png");
$src5 = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/$chars[5].png");
$src6 = imagecreatefrompng("../images/counter/$chars[6].png");
imagecopymerge($im, $src1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 56, 75, 100);
imagecopymerge($im, $src2, 60, 0, 0, 0, 56, 75, 100);
imagecopymerge($im, $src3, 120, 0, 0, 0, 56, 75, 100);
imagecopymerge($im, $src4, 180, 0, 0, 0, 56, 75, 100);
imagecopymerge($im, $src5, 240, 0, 0, 0, 56, 75, 100);
imagecopymerge($im, $src5, 300, 0, 0, 0, 56, 75, 100);
// Output and free from memory
header('Content-Type: image/png');
echo imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
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The path is correct, I have checked and double checked it.
I don't know why I put it in that folder. It is just where my other PHP files are. :-)
<div class="visitor-count">Number of visitors since 12-10-2016:</div>
<img alt="Hit counter" src="../javascripts/counter.php" />Of this code, the only thing that displays when I run it is:
Number of visitors since 12-10-2016:
Hit counter
I put this code (echo "This is a test!";) at the start of my PHP file just to see if if was even getting that far and it wasn't.
I also tried putting the counter.php file in the same folder as the HTML file and not using a path just src="counter.php" and that didn't work either.
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I'm going to get this out of the way right up front, I am very new at this PHP stuff.
After a lot of research I have developed a standalone PHP file that I want to call from a HTML page. It isn't getting past my HTML code so I think I've done something there. This is my HTML code:
<div class="visitor-count">Number of visitors since 12-10-2016:</div>
<img alt="Hit counter" src="../javascripts/counter.php" />Any help would be greatly appreciated.
RPatton
HTML code calling PHP script not working
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OK, I moved everything to the same directory, took out all the relative paths, fixed the $src6, and it still doesn't work. I'm about ready to pull my hair out.