I have this piece of jQuery that currently increments a number by one every 5 seconds. The problem I have is that its client side, therefore it resets every time you refresh the page.
Instead I'd like the counter to continue even if you are away from the site and regardless of how many times you refresh the page, which is why I thought a server side script such as PHP would be better suited to my use case. If not please suggest otherwise.
I've setup a working fiddle of what I currently have with jQuery: http://jsfiddle.net/f354bzy5/
What would be the PHP to recreate this affect that include my requirements above?
Here's the Jquery I'm using:
//Counter
var counter = 22000000000;
$(".count").html(counter);
setInterval(function () {
$(".count").html(counter);
++counter;
}, 5000);