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WebsiteBaker Support (2.8.x) => Droplets & Snippets => Topic started by: Ruud on August 20, 2008, 12:09:33 AM
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I created a small snippet today and called it "Mini Counter".
It does what it says. It is a simple page counter.
News/Bakery//Catalog/GoCart/Gallery subpages are counted seperately.
Installation:
Install the zipfile as a normal module through the WB backend.
Add the php code to your template index.php.
Using the snippet:
Default: <?php MiniCounter(); ?>
Optional parameters: <?php MiniCounter( $show_counter, $hits_text, $today_text, $closing_text ); ?>
$show_counter = Echo the counter result (default := 1, 0 no output)
$hits_text = The text in front of the total hits counter. (default := "Pagehits: ", if set to "" no total counter is displayed)
$today_text = The text in front of the today hits counter. (default := " (Today: ", if set to "" no daily counter is displayed)
$closing_text = Optional text to close the result of the snippet. (default := ")", if set to "" no closing is displayed)
Customised Example: <?php MiniCounter(1 , "Hits: " , " [Today: " , "]" ) ?>
No Output: <?php MiniCounter(0); ?>
There is no nice overview output (yet), just the counter in the page.
I invite all to build a backend page to look at stats using the data.
October 6 - Version 0.22
This version has a second snippet added.
<?php Popular_Pages(); ?>
This will create a links block with the 5 pages (or more) with the most page views.
Optional parameters: <?php Popular_Pages( $count, $title, $show_menu_title, $show_totals ); ?>
$count = The amount of pages listed by the snippet.
$title = The heading of the block. It is written in a <div class="popularpages"><h2><h3> </h3></h2></div>
-- The listing itself is written in <div class="popularlist"><ul><li>........</li></ul></div>
$show_menu_title = If set to 0 (default = 1) the page title is used for the link. Not the menu_title.
$show_totals = if set to 1 a tooltip will be added to the link with the total pageviews for that page.
Ruud
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Hi Ruud,
I didn´t know - but this is exactly what I needed.
Just a small line in the footer. Thank You.
Regards from Himberg
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Hello Ruud
A nice one :-)
Only minor changes inside the include.php and index.php file
- Add commentblock within some comments ... mostly taken from the posting of Ruud.
- Add "if ( ($page == 0) OR ($show_counter == 0) ) return;" to get rid of the unnessesary "if" at the end of the function
- Add a "counter_total = 0" to get a valid value in every kind of circumstances.
- Minor code-cleaning at the end of the function.
- Minor code-cleaning in subfunction "subItem()".
- Add "../" inside the "index.php" to get rid of the "index.php is calling index.php is calling index.php" situation.
Regards
Aldus
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Hi Aldus,
Some day I will post a module/snippet where you don't need to polish up anything :-D
One modification I don't agree on.
If $show_counter = 0 we still want the page to be counting, just not output any results.
The idea is that the backend some day will get some functionality to look at the page hits.
I know this can also be done by using 3 empty params, but just a yes/no seemd more logical to me.
Adding the snippet in your template and tell it not to do anything doesn't make much sense to me.
The $page=0 test is to prevent counting hits on search results and possible other dynamic pages that should not be counted.
Cheers,
Ruud
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Hello Ruud
Ok - i over-read the "show_counter" sence ... :roll: (a little bit too fast ...)
Regards
Aldus
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Hi All,
I updated the MiniCounter snippet with an extra function.
<?php Popular_Pages(); ?>
This will display a list of links (menu style) of the most viewed pages.
See the first post and the readme.txt in the .zip for more info.
Ruud
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Hi Ruud
that does not work for me.
Anyone who had this work?
rgds
erpe
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Got it work :-D
Testpage (http://www.rvb.bplaced.net/pages/code-2.php)
Thanks for that.
rgds
erpe
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Hi Ruud,
as usual - nice thing.
So the Visitor is alway´s informed....
There is just a little mistake in the read-me. You explain:
$title = The heading of the block. It is written in a <div class="popularpages"><h2> </h2></div>
But in fact the code generates h3.
regards from Himberg
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But in fact the code generates h3.
Ooops, must have been a Freudian mistake.
I always wanted to use h2's, but for some reason I end up using h3's. :-D
Ruud
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Is there a way to count unique visits only , Also not count search engines
Thanks
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No,
There is a reason this snippet is called minicounter ;-)
Have a look at this (http://www.websitebakers.com/pages/others/chcounter.php), this is a full counter with nice statistics.
Here (https://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,4393.msg27275.html#msg27275) it is explained how to use it.
Ruud
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Is there a way to reset the counter?
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Just uninstall and install a fresh one.
That should do the trick
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hi,
is it possible to show the counter just on one page?
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Sure,
Just find the page_id of the page you want it to show and use:
<?php
if (PAGE_ID == 123) {
MiniCounter(1 , "Hits: " , " [Today: " , "]" );
}
?>
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Sure,
Just find the page_id of the page you want it to show and use:
<?php
if (PAGE_ID == 123) {
MiniCounter(1 , "Hits: " , " [Today: " , "]" );
}
?>
thx!!!
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Note that this way other pages will not be recorded at all.
If you also want to count those pages, but without display you could use:
<?php
if (PAGE_ID == 123) {
MiniCounter(1 , "Hits: " , " [Today: " , "]" );
} else {
MiniCounter(0);
}
?>