Re: [PHP] Counter has gremlins

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Brampton
I believe this is a concurrency problem... 2 PHP scripts can run at the same time and the problem is that your first script gets as far as the unlink thus deleting the file. Then the 2nd script is ran (at the same time) and trys to open the file which doesn't exist, therefore it reads a num of 0. T

Re: [PHP] Counter has gremlins

2003-02-17 Thread Jason Sheets
You could be having problems with multiple users, if two visitors come at the same time file locking problems come into play, one script could unlink the file at the same time another script tries to open it resulting in an empty file. A database would be a better way to do this, but assuming you