trouble with a hit counter

here is the code:

<?php
$filename = "hits.html" ;
$startdate = "July 2006" ;
$ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") ;
$currentip = "$ip"; 
$file = file($filename);
$file = array_unique($file);
  
$file = "$filename"; 
$fd = fopen ($file, "r"); 
$fget= fread ($fd, filesize ($file)); 
fclose ($fd); 
$totalips = htmlspecialchars($fget); 
if (preg_match ("/$ip/i", "$totalips")) 
{$file = file($filename);
$file = array_unique($file);
$hits = count($file);
echo "Visitors since,<br />";
echo "$startdate: 000$hits";}  
else 
{ 
$fd = fopen ($filename , "r");
$fstring = fread ($fd , filesize ($filename)) ;
fclose($fd) ;
$fd = fopen ($filename , "w");
$fcounted = $fstring.$currentip."<br />";
$fout= fwrite ($fd , $fcounted);
fclose($fd);
$file = file($filename);
$file = array_unique($file);
$hits = count($file);
echo "Visitors since,<br />";
echo "$startdate: $hits";
} 

?>

the problem im haveing is, that it logs the ip number 1 on the same line as ip number 2, so it only gets read it as 1ip. is there a way to make it split up the ip's on to diffrent lines? ive tryed /n, but that didnt seem to work :( any suggestions would help.

this is the coding i use for a hit counter ;)

btw disable smilies lol

save this as counter.php:

  <?php
  	
	$count='count.txt';
	
		if (file_exists($count))
			{
				$var=fopen($count,'r+');
				$visits=fread($var,filesize($count));
				rewind($var);
				$visits++;
				fwrite($var,$visits);
				fclose($var);
			}
		else	
			{
				echo 'N/A';
				Die();
			}
			
		$num=sprintf("%s",$visits);
		print $num;
		
  ?>

now in the page which u want the hits to be displayed add this code (where u want the text to be):

<?php include('counter.php') ?>

and in tht directory make a new textfile called count.txt, and set the text to 0

hope this helps ya man