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woodwater
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May 29, 2003, 3:50 PM
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Hit Counter for Individual Articles?
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Is it possible to have a hit counter for individual articles that says
"This article has been viewed XX time(s)." ?
We can also expand on it and have a feature that list the most popular articles according to how many times it has been viewed.
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Donna
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May 30, 2003, 10:01 AM
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Re: [woodwater] Hit Counter for Individual Articles?
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Hi woodwater!
Thanks for the post. :)
Hmm. Do-able? I think so. How? Yeek, I've got no idea. It would take a rather ingenious script to manage that, I think. It's definitely not a feature that's built into Article Manager, but it's an interesting idea. :)
If you manage to get something like that together, I'd love to see it. :)
Donna
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BillG
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May 30, 2003, 10:58 AM
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Re: [woodwater] Hit Counter for Individual Articles?
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I don't know how to do it in CGI, but in Active Server Pages you can use the PageCounter component.
Create a file called counter.asp, in a subdirectory ASPScript, with the following code:
<%
'Instantiate the PageCounter object in IIS5
' In IIS4 you may have to use IISSample instead of MSWC
Set MyPageCounter = Server.CreateObject("MSWC.PageCounter")
'Increment the counter for this page.
MyPageCounter.PageHit
thisPage = Request.ServerVariables("URL")
If Server.HTMLEncode(Request.QueryString("clear")) = "321" Then
'Reset the counter for this page, and reload
MyPageCounter.Reset(thisPage)
Response.Redirect(thisPage)
End If
Response.Write("<DIV class=PageCount>This Page has
been viewed " & MyPageCounter.Hits & " times</div>")
%>
Then, add the following to your AM Article template:
<!--#Include virtual="ASPScript/counter.asp"-->
The cool thing about this is that you can reset any article's counter to zero by adding
?clear=321
to the end of any article URL.
Of course, this assumes that you are using ASP pages and that your article's pages all end in .asp .
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