counting and displaying a how many figure

Hi All I would like to know how to count how many downloads of a file I have on my site is downloaded and display something like " file.name downloaded xxxx times" on my page. I have this idea using mysql db. table files ID int autoincrment, file_name, URL, I believe this would utilise something like the count() function but I haven't used this yet Thanks for any help or guidance in this matter. Dave C ;-)