Hit counters are used to track the amount of visitors there have been to a cetain page. I have looked through the internet and I have come up with 2 different ways to produce a hit counter.

Create, insert, update, delete, count and select rows in a database.

Implementing webservice servers and clients using SOAP and PHP. This paper has examples and explanations regarding implimenting effective webservices.

This is a really 2 file way of making a unique hit counter.
If you make a new file called counter.txt and just type the number 1 on the first line.

A detailed explanation of the methods for making and using include files in PHP, as well as passing values between included and parent files without using global variables.

Editor's Pick in Web Programming, June 2005
Did you know that constantly generating and posting fresh website content is a good way to get return visits from your customers? Here's how it's done using PHP.

This tutorial will show You how to generate google sitemaps based on Your site MySQL structure.

Using PHP's calendar functions, make a stylish dynamic calendar showing weekends, current month and more.

Editor's Pick in Web Programming, March 2007
This article will help you to add an email validator to your website. The author has not only shown you how to do this, he has added all the code to put into your PHP. It's really a simple exercise.

Today we learn how to create a "Tell a Friend" script with HTML and PHP. If you want to exercise on my files, click here to download them!