I want to use the text counter from http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/textcounter.shtml on my page. It shows an example of how to execute this with an SSI tag, but how can I do this using PHP? I tried include(thefile) and require(thefile) and they both just display the source code of the counter. THanks

I don't believe you can because you need an shtml extension. However I've seen php counters that do the same thing. Check out http://www.php.net/projects.php

Change your main page to a .php extension and somewhere in the coding put this little php code.

<?
include('php filename')
?>

Probably more advanced PHP people here can help you.

<?
passthru("perl /absolutepath/script.pl");
?>


Put that code into a .php file.

Set the path and script info, and that should work......

Originally posted by The Prohacker

<?
passthru("perl /absolutepath/script.pl");
?>


Put that code into a .php file.

Set the path and script info, and that should work......

Yup, that worked! Thanks!