A hit counter in flash is not hard at all. The only things required for making a hit counter in flash is a computer, Flash (preferably MX or higher), text editor (even notepad will do, I use Dreamweaver), and most importantly a server that supports php 3 or higher.
What we're going to do is draw the appearance of the counter in flash, write a php script that will store the visitor count in a small text file, and then call the php script from flash. There are two types of flash hit counters: a simple counter that increases after refreshing the page or a live counter which refreshes itself after a period of time.