GmBowenCounter:Wikka

Page Counter Action

Below are the changes needed to create an action that allows the number of hits on a page to be roughly counted (it doesn't increment if it's your own page, only for the pages of others).

If you want it to keep a count, but without showing the number (so people don't have the urge to "up" the number on you), you can set the parameter show="off" or show="no".

It works pretty well overall. Of course, it doesn't "count" if the action isn't on the page, but I thought for "help" pages etc that aren't open for editing it might be pretty useful. Usually we put lots of work into different things in a wiki, I thought it'd be interesting to be able to gauge the use of the different parts. Hope you find it useful. -- Mike (aka GmBowen)

the only thing I can think might be useful to add, is if you could add the parameter ignore="name1, name2, name3"...but I had no idea how to parse a list like that and include a comparison of to the current user for exclusion

it also might be useful to have it so that an owner could set show=off or show=no but show up if it is the pageowner looking...I'll have to think through the coding on that though

the _pages table has to have the following field added....

`hits` int(50) NOT NULL default '0'

and the counter.php code (save as a file in the action directory)....

<?
$thispage=$this->GetPageTag();
// Get hit count
$result2 = mysql_query( "SELECT hits FROM ".$this->config["table_prefix"]."pages WHERE tag='$thispage' AND latest='Y'" );
$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2);
$hit_count1 = $row2[hits];
// Count is incremented if not your own page
if ($this->GetUserName() != $this->GetPageOwner($tag))
{
// End Get hit Count Start adding hits
$hit_count2 = $hit_count1 + 1;
// End adding hits Start Update Hit
$sql = "UPDATE `".$this->config["table_prefix"]."pages` SET `hits` = '$hit_count2' WHERE tag='$thispage' AND latest='Y'";
// $sql .= " WHERE `ref` = $ref";
mysql_query($sql) or die("Unable to process query: " . mysql_error());
}
// End Update Hit

// parameter show="off" or "no" being checked for
$show = strtolower($show);
if ($show != 'off' && $show !='no')
{
// Start output of counter
$result4 = mysql_query("SELECT hits FROM ".$this->config["table_prefix"]."pages WHERE tag='$thispage' AND latest='Y'");
$row4 = mysql_fetch_array($result4);
$hit_count3 = $row4['hits'];
echo '<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
echo '<tr><td><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Total Hits:</b></font></td><td><font face="verdana" size="2"> ';
print "$hit_count3";
echo '</font></td></tr></table>';
}
// End Output of counter
?>

Preventing the reset of the counter

If you only use the above code the counter will re-set to zero every time you edit a page (well, 2 actually...I said it was a "rough" count didn't I??). If you don't want that to happen you have to do the following changes as well....

In the handlers/edit.php file I changed the line (around line 35).....

$this->SavePage($this->tag, $body, $note);

$this->SavePage($this->tag, $body, $note, $this->page['hits']);

AND I learned (through seemingly bizarre but now understandable errors cropping up) that the order of the
variables is important relative to the SavePage() function (see below....which is why $pagehits doesn't follow
the $comment_on variable in the list of variables in the function but precedes it)

In the WAKKA.PHP file in the wiki root:
Around line 235, in the SavePage() function, the line has to be changed to

function SavePage($tag, $body, $note, $pagehits, $comment_on = "")

note that $pagehits has to PRECEDE the $comment_on variable

a few lines down, the following line has to be added....

"hits = '".mysql_escape_string($pagehits)."', ".

I added it after the line....

"user = '".mysql_escape_string($user)."', ".

And that's it folks....it should work pretty well.

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Page Counter Action

Preventing the reset of the counter