Help for simple PHP script Options

[denmarks]

I know hardly anything about PHP and am trying to create a very simple script. It is the beginning of a web counter.
There is a file named count.log that has a single line in it with a zero (0).
I want to read the file and create a gif displaying the number.
One is then added to the count and it is written back to the log file.

The gif displays but I do not believe the the log is read or written. The value of 0 appears which is what I initialize the log file to.

CODE

<?php
$count_file = 'count.log';
$my_img = imagecreatefromgif ("count.gif");
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($my_img, 0, 0, 0);
$count = 0;
file_get_contents($count_file, $count);
imagestring($my_img, 4, 2, 3, "Counter $count", $textcolor);
$count = $count + 1;
file_put_contents($count_file, $count);
header( "Content-type: image/png" );
imagepng( $my_img );
imagedestroy( $my_img );
?>

[CharlesEF]

We can't see PHP code from a web page. But, if it is the same as what you have posted then we have it, if there are other changes made then post the entire script again. Put these 2 lines of code at the beginning of the script, to see any error messages.

CODE

ini_set('display_errors', 'On');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

I have an appointment so I will be offline for several hours.

This post has been edited by CharlesEF: Aug 27 2018, 02:29 PM