Hi, people! I started reading Php about half a year ago. Itīs going 
slooow...Well, now I want to add the first php magic to my site, which is 
100% made in Flash. I loaded my Php script into Flash, and made sure I had 
named my Flash variables similar to the ones in the Php script. I had one 
for visitors, one for last access time. I get the visitor numbers all 
right, but every time I refresh the Flash movie, the counter adds 
2,3,5,7,10 etc!!Itīs like a random chaos in there!I cannot trust it! Oh, 
hereīs the script:

<?php 
//last_counter_access.php 

$counter_file = "./counter.dat"; 
if (file_exists($counter_file)) { 

$date_str= getdate (fileatime($counter_file)); 
$year = $date_str["year"]; 
$mon = $date_str["mon"]; 
$mday = $date_str["mday"]; 
$hours = $date_str["hours"]; 
$minutes = $date_str["minutes"]; 
$seconds = $date_str["seconds"]; 

$date_str = "$hours:$minutes:$seconds: $mday/$mon/$year"; 

if (! ($fp = fopen ($counter_file, "r+"))) 
die ("Cannot open $counter_file"); 

$counter = (int) fread ($fp, filesize($counter_file)); 
$counter++; 

echo "Visitors: $counter. "; 
// Here I would say print "&counter=".$counter; 
But this generates errors, why? (And yes, my variable in Flash is called 
counter...) 

echo "<BR>Last access: $date_str"; 
//And here I would say print "&date_str=".$date_str; 
and have a variable in Flash called...date_str! 
rewind($fp); 

} 
else { 
if (! ($fp = fopen($counter_file, "w"))); 
die ("Cannot open $counter_file"); 
$counter = 1; 
echo "Visitors: $counter."; 
} 

fwrite($fp, $counter); 
fclose($fp); 
?> 

Note that I donīt use any db, only this "counter.dat"-file...Would be glad 
for any help!