Snarl, hiss, growl (frustration)

Why does this not work? It is just a simple hit counter (hence the snarls, hissing, and growling). It logs the ips address but does not increment $current or log it. I do have counter.txt and ips.txt chmod'd to 777. Ips.txt starts blank and counter.txt starts with just a 0 in it. <?php $counter = fopen('counter.txt', 'r'); $current = fread($counter, filesize('counter.txt')); fclose($counter); $ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'); $ipCheck = file('ips.txt'); if (!in_array($ip, $ipCheck)) { $ipAdd = fopen('ips.txt', 'a'); fwrite($ipAdd, "\n$ip"); fclose($ipAdd); $current++; $counter = fopen('counter.txt', 'w'); fwrite($counter, $current); fclose($counter); } print $current; ?> -- Kyle