[RESOLVED] Simple counter gone wrong.

[NoteMe]

I have made a really simple counter. It stores the number of visits in a text file. But for some reason it adds 3 ever time you do a refresh in stead of 1. Can anyone explain why? This is the function I am calling:

function total_page_views(){

    $tot_user_file = $path . '/totalusers.txt';

    $totuser_handle = fopen($tot_user_file, 'r+') or die("can't open file");
    flock ($totuser_handle, LOCK_EX); 
    
    if (filesize($tot_user_file) > 0){
    $totusers = fread($totuser_handle, filesize($tot_user_file));
        $totusers ++;
    }else{
    $totusers = 1;
    }

    $totuser_handle = fopen($tot_user_file, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
    fwrite($totuser_handle, $totusers);    
    
    flock ($totuser_handle, LOCK_UN);
    fclose($totuser_handle);

    return $totusers;

} 

And I have split up the index file in 3 parts. So it is the index.php file, the top.php and the bottom.php. The index.php includes the top.php in the top, and the bottom.php on the bottom. So in the top.php file I have something like this:

<?php
require "functions/counter.php";

echo '            <div id="banner">' . total_page_views() . '</div>';

?>

A bit awkvard I know...but hmm...anyone see what I might be doing wrong???



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