PHPcount is a simple yet effective PHP text hit counter. It uses flat-text database so no SQL databases are necessary. It can count hits for multiple pages of your website or even websites on other servers. To prevent others taking advantage of your script a HTTP referer validation has been included as an option. The count is displayed on the page using a simple Javascript code. The script prints out only the number (i.e. 15344) which you can easily format with HTML code.
