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Page Hit Counter – Simple Page View Tracking

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David Karich    178

David Karich
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22 hours ago, loukote said:

Above you mention the ProCache module. Do I understand correctly that the counting will work correctly even with the standard PW template cache mechanism?

Hi @loukote, yes that's right. The tracking and counting of PageViews also works with any form of cache. Because a small Javascript is injected, which tracks the view asnychronously, past the cache, without affecting the cache.

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apeisa    3,686

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Haven't tested yet, but it seems that it stores only int value of total sum of all time views? So not possible to use for "most viewed pages this week" for example?

Other than that it looks like a perfect module for many use cases!

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David Karich    178

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12 minutes ago, apeisa said:

Haven't tested yet, but it seems that it stores only int value of total sum of all time views? So not possible to use for "most viewed pages this week" for example?

Other than that it looks like a perfect module for many use cases!

Hello apeisa, 

that's correct. It totals all views. However, you can still display something similar to a function like "most of the week". If the page being tracked has a date field. For example I have a news template with the date field "start_date" and activated tracking. Now you can output the 5 most read news of the last week with the following selector:  

$startDate = strtotime("-1 week");
$endDate = strtotime("now");
$bestNews = $pages->find("template=news, start_date>={$startDate}, start_date<={$endDate}, sort=-phits, start=0, limit=5");

 

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apeisa    3,686

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Yep, that would do in many cases - if you want to promote fresh articles!

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Just spotted a curiosity in my Jumplinks 404 log...

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.. and found out it's from here PageHitCounter.min.js. 

"use strict";(window.PHC=window.PHC||{}).t=function(){try{var e=document.getElementsByTagName("BODY")[0],t=parseInt(e.getAttribute("data-phc"));if(!isNaN(t)){var n=new XMLHttpRequest;n.open("POST",location.pathname.replace(/\/?$/,'/')+"phcv1",!0),n.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"),n.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-With","XMLHttpRequest"),n.send(encodeURI("pid="+t))}}catch(e){}},PHC.t();

 

Did I missed that before or is this not working as intended?

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Found another thing... 

My 404 page has the same template as most of my other pages as it's kind of a page builder.

Trying to reset the page count for that template the 404 page still has it counts while other's dont.

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Trying to be clever and looking up the ID of that page (27) in order to reset the view count an error message shows up. 

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND `data` > 0' at line 1

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