Well, first off, i am php, newcomer at T-I. Thought i would start my life here with my first tutorial on making your own php page views image counter.



So, basically, two files are needed :
one - views.php
two - show_user_an_image.php
usage - put this in html page : <img src="views.php?page=page1" alt="counter" >
now, here is the code (comments in php fle explain the code) :

views.php
PHP Code:
<?php
    
    /*
    *    Name   : views.php
    *    Usage  : <img src="views.php?page=pagenamehere" alt="Views">
    *    Require: show_user_an_image.php
    *    Author : php
    *    Mail   : phpl0v3r@gmail.com
    *    Note   : Feel free to email me any issues you got.
    */
    
    // image display part
    require("show_user_an_image.php");
    
    // the page views counter part
    if(isset($_GET["page"])){
        $page = $_GET["page"];    // $_GET["page"] actually is webpage name
        $filename = urlencode($page).".txt";    // lets choose a filename to store hits in
        if(file_exists($filename)){
            $views = file_get_contents($filename);    // get views count
            $views++;    // increment it
            file_put_contents($filename, $views);    // put the new count back in the file
            show_user_an_image("Page Views : ".$views);    // return user the image showing the page views
        }else{    // there is no file
            $views = 1;
            file_put_contents($filename, $views);    // store 1 in new file
            show_user_an_image("Page Views : ".$views);    // return user the image showing page has 1 view
        }
    }
?>
show_user_an_image.php
PHP Code:
<?php
    /**
    *    Name   : show_user_an_image.php
    *    Usage  : show_user_an_image("Data here");
    *    Author : php
    *    Mail   : phpl0v3r@gmail.com
    *    Note   : Feel free to email me any issues you got.
    */

    function show_user_an_image($parameter){

        // configure variables for image creation
        $imagewidth = '200';
        $imageheight = '100';
        $image = imagecreate($imagewidth,$imageheight);
        $background = imagecolorallocate($image,255,255,255);    // here, (255,255,255) refers to (r,g,b) value of white
        $wantborder = true;
            if($wantborder){
                $borderthickness = 1;
                $border = @imagecolorallocate($image,0,0,0);    // here, (0,0,0) refers to (r,g,b) value of black
                @imagerectangle($image,0,0,$imagewidth-$borderthickness,$imageheight-$borderthickness,$border);
            }
        $textcolor = imagecolorallocate($image,0,0,255);    // here, (0,255,0) refers to (r,g,b) value of blue
        $text = $parameter;
        $fontsize = 3;
        $fontwidth = imagefontwidth($fontsize);
        $fontheight = imagefontheight($fontsize);
        $textwidth = $fontwidth * strlen($text);
        $textheight = $fontheight;
        $horizontalcenter = ceil(($imagewidth - $textwidth) / 2);
        $verticalcenter = ceil(($imageheight - $textheight) / 2);
        $pastestringonimage = imagestring($image,$fontsize,$horizontalcenter,$verticalcenter,$text,$textcolor);
        header("Content-type: image/png");
        imagepng($image);

    }    
?>
Any doubt in the above code, please feel free to email at my email.
I will always be there to help you out with php ;)