4 replies to this topic

[mangopo]

My site's articles use a page view counter that makes it possible to list top 5 most viewed articles. After enabling cache for all pages it no longer counts views. Is there any way to fix this?

[MadeMyDay]

Depends on how this page view counter works. You could either work with a ajax request to an uncached page to update the counter or you use a (then rather complicated) construct with markup cache.

[mangopo]

This is the code in the blog article template:

$page->setOutputFormatting(false);
$page->views = $page->views+1;
$pages->saveField($page, 'views');
$page->setOutputFormatting(true);

[MadeMyDay]

Well, as suggested: I would put this code in a page with a non cached template:

<?php
$id = $sanitizer->text($input->get->id);
$whichPage = $pages->get($id);
$whichPage->views = $whichPage->views+1;
$whichPage->saveField($whichPage, 'views');

And in your pages / other templates you place something like this (jQuery assumed):

<script>
$.get("/mycounter/", {id: <?= $page->id ?> } );
</script>

"mycounter" would be your counter page with the counter template.

[totally untested]

[ryan]

I like MadeMyDay's solution. A couple other possibilities are:

1. Use MarkupCache rather than template caching. That way you can cache just the parts of the output that you want to, and leave the things like your counter uncached.

2. Create an autoload module. Add a ready() function to it and have that function increment the counter of $this->page (using the same method you are already doing).