file download counter without database

Question

I am a beginer in programming. i have a pdf file for download in my website. I want to know the no. of downloads. I searched in google.

and i tried something like this.

Answer 1

Well instead of a database you will have to keep a file with count

in the php file that downloads the pdf:

$downCount = intval( file_get_contents("/some/path/downloadCount") );
$downCount++;
file_put_contents("/some/path/downloadCount",$downCount);