Since we are on the subject of PHP, how would i use LONG's in php? i wrote a counter and never expected to get that many hits, but it's happened. ;*)

Wrong category there mate, by the way could you rephrase your question?

How would i use LONG datatypes?
How do i declare them?
Instead of plane integers.

No such thing as a "long" type in PHP.

ints will go from -2147483647 to 2147483647... If that isn't enough, as the php manual says "If you specify a number beyond the bounds of the integer type, it will be interpreted as a float instead." Floats can be much larger (around 1.8e308)

You can also just store numbers as strings and use the bcmath routines to operate on numbers of infinite magnitude.

Note also that referring to a long datatype is meaningless when attempting to convey numeric range as it's language/platform dependent, and is commonly taken to be 32 bits, and the same size as an int.