Counter variable not storing

[Toothkiller]

Trying to write a program that increases a int when called and saves the int so when called again its previous int+1. At the moment it returns all zeros.

Heres my code:

//This is counter.h
#ifndef COUNTERHELP_H
#define COUNTERHELP_H


class counterhelp
{
    public:
    int getnextnumb () {
    for (int i=0; i<1000000; i++) {
        int counter = getcounter ();
        counter++;
        setcounter ();
    }
    return counter;
}
    int getcounter () {
        return this->counter;
}

    void setcounter () {
        this->counter = counter;
}
        counterhelp();
        virtual ~counterhelp();
    protected:
    private:
    int counter;
};

#endif
//This is counter.cpp
#include "C:\Documents and Settings\Jared\My Documents\CodeBlocks\Trial and Error\include\counterhelp.h"




counterhelp::counterhelp () {

}



counterhelp::~counterhelp()
{
    //dtor
}

//This is main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include "C:\Documents and Settings\Jared\My Documents\CodeBlocks\Trial and Error\include\counterhelp.h"
using namespace std;

counterhelp ch;

int main () {
    int bob = ch.getnextnumb ();
    cout << " next number is " << bob;
    int susie =ch.getnextnumb ();
    cout << " next number is " << susie;
    int marc =ch.getnextnumb ();
    cout << " next number is " << marc;
}

[Athar]

See comments:

class counterhelp
{
    public:
    int getnextnumb () { //the entire function could be reduced to "return counter++;"
    for (int i=0; i<1000000; i++) { //what's up with the loop?
        int counter = getcounter ();
        counter++;
        setcounter (); //set counter to what?
    }
    return counter;
}
    int getcounter () {
        return this->counter; //just counter is sufficient
}

    void setcounter () { //this function needs a parameter to make any sense
        this->counter = counter; //assigns counter to itself, so that does nothing
}
        counterhelp();
        virtual ~counterhelp(); //no need for a virtual destructor as long as there are no other virtual functions
    protected:
    private:
    int counter;
};

[Toothkiller]

Thank you, it worked.