Statistics and Counters Php

Very simple PHP text based counter.
to use it simple add this code to your html.

Simply add the below code into a notepad document and save it as counter.php
Then upload counter.php to ouyr directory in ascii mode.
-----Beginning of Script-----
$log="counter.txt"; //counter log file.
//nothing else to change leave it as is.
$open=@fopen($log,'r+');
$counter=@fread($open,filesize($log));
@fclose($open);
$counter++;
$write=fopen($log,'w');
fputs($write,$counter);
fclose($write);
echo "document.write($counter)";
?>
-----End Of Script-----
note:
if you want to change your counter number from 1 to any just create or change
counter.txt to proper counts and upload to your directory.