Basic counter & users online..

Glory! I'm working on a Counter thing. with a basic Hit Meter and a Users Online Meter. The problem I face is.. the index page of my site is HTML .. no frameset.. and I need to display these vars on that page. The solution I use is that I place a Flash Clip (.swf) and I'm calling the PHP Variables in it, from a PHP page.. But now the issues comes in.. how does the Database increment the counter? If I place the counter increment script on a PHP page.. it's ok. But here I have a HTML page with Flash in it.. when this HTML page loads.. the Counter needs to be incremented by one, and this adding to the Hits. Same way the Users Online script needs to work.. but how do I do this? Does anybody have any other solution how to make this work? PHPSpooky ______________________________________ "If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe