Session Page Views

[DRJ]

Hi

Is there a variable I can use in the templates to see the number of page views for a user's current session?

For example, user goes to the site and I want a banner at the top to display some promotion. After they have viewed a few pages I want it to go away and then would only return if they closed the browser and came back to start a new session.

Thanks

[Dave]

I don't know of such variable, but should be rather easy to make. I guess you can use the global hook and just make a new $_SESSION['pagecount'] variable and increment it on every page load.

[DRJ]

I think that will work but I can't get it to increment:

$PageCount++;

vB_Template:reRegister('header',array('PageCount ' => $PageCount));

The output is always 1.

[tbworld]

Not that I know what you are doing, nor would I probably do it this way.

But, if you were going to use @Dave's suggestion, you would have to store it in the superglobal for it to work.

So maybe something like this:

session_start();
$PageCnt = $_SESSION['pagecnt']++;

This will only work for your active session only.

[DRJ]

I tried this in Global Start:

$PageCount = $_SESSION['PageCount']++;
vB_Template:reRegister('header',array('PageCount ' => $PageCount));

Then in the Header Template I have this:

Test
{vb:raw PageCount}
{vb:raw $PageCount}

But I go not get any output, perhaps I need a different hook? I tried Global Complete also.

Thanks

[tbworld]

I am not sure it is the right hook, I would have to look at it, but it should output.

session_start();
$PageCount = $_SESSION['PageCount']++;
vB_Template::PreRegister('header',array('PageCount' => $PageCount));

Make sure you are looking at the correct style.

For testing purposes make sure it is not nested into a conditional, thus blocking output.
{vb:raw PageCount}

[DRJ]

I did it like this:

Test
{vb:raw PageCount}
Test

And do get Test output but not the number. I changed the code to what you put exactly but maybe it should be in someplace else.

There is only 1 style.

Thanks

[tbworld]

I tried the code on vb4.2.1, again, not that I would actually do it this way, but it worked the way I expected.

Change the hook to "parse_templates" for the most accurate count -- the count will still be off as I guessed.

To test: set "PageCount = 'Test of Page Count'; (Some long string, not a number)

Here is my test code:

// Hook: parse_templates

session_start();
$PageCount = $_SESSION['PageCount']++;
vB_Template::PreRegister('header',array('PageCount' => $PageCount));

Out of suggestions for right now.

[DRJ]

Thanks, that hook worked.