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dimeco
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Oct 26, 2009, 10:20 AM

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Not sure about this one - I read a post at
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/Products_C2/Article_Manager_2_F31/gforum.cgi?post=50839;t=search_engine#50839

Is there a way to pull from the database directly or the site stats that show how many times they've been viewed?

For example, if I log into my awstats, some articles have been viewed as many as 7000 times in just the last month (and this was an older article).

So... if I add a "new" stats counter now, it's going to look like its rarely ever visited, yet it could have thousands to hundreds of thousands of views.

Would the database track this too so that we could just plug it into the templates? or do we "have" to use an outside tracker?

Amber


Donna
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Oct 26, 2009, 3:11 PM

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Hi Amber,

Article Manager doesn't track that itself, so ... not really, no. There's no internal counter in Article Manager. Although you could just pre-seed the counter with an approximate number of views you think it's already had, but that'll be a bit of a pain if you have a lot of articles.

Donna

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Garbracht
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Nov 9, 2009, 7:32 AM

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Hi, Amber,

a wish as ald as Article Manager. I did no longer want to wait for that feature and coded my own small solution.
A CGI script that is started when an article is displayed updates a counter stored in a simple textfile.

-> http://www.steel-grips.com/newsdesk/from_top/g02316.html

There are also some basic statistical features.

Writing and reading a mysql database instead of a textfile should not be such a big problem. If someone has some time left any form of cooperation on this field is apreciated.

Clemens