Views Counter script!

here is the code:

<?php
// Our log file;
$counter = "counter.txt";

// Read log file into array;
$contents = file($counter);

// Total hits;
$total_hits = sizeof($contents);

echo $total_hits . " views ";

PHP:

So what I am not sure is how to protect the counter.txt from being accessed from others. What should I do, create a .htacces file or chmod?
If I put this script on my remote server what should I do to protect the .txt file?
Should I put it to my log folder and give any perms?

 

Robots.txt?

 

i think robots.txt is for web crawlers..

 

just put it under the doc root and you should be fine.