Miscellaneous Hacks - HIT COUNTER! (Integrated With VB)

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Installation Time: <2 mins
Template Edits: 1
Plugins: 1
VB Version: This actually works on 3.5.0 - 3.5.4
Live Example (Look at my footer): http://beasttoast.com

Description:
This is a basic hit counter. It uses a little php script and a text file to store the hits (no DB because it would be too stressful). Also you dont have to display the hits on every page you could just put it on your forumhome template, and it will still count all the hits

Installation Instructions:

1. Download and unzip 'plugin-pageviews.zip'
2. Upload the folder 'Counter' into your forum directory
3. Now open the 'Counter' folder, and CH MOD 666 the 'count.txt' file
4. Install the plugin
5. *Optional* If you want to be able to display the page views for today just create a Scheduled Task like this:
   
   Title: 'Page Views'
   Hour: '23'
   Min: '59'
   File Name: './counter/counter_daily.php'
   
6. Place '$pageviews' and/or '$pageviewstoday' in any template where ever you want to display the hit count.

Screen Shot:
- Using Total Page Views
or
- Using Total Page Views and Todays Page Views

FAQ:

1. Q: Where do I put the '$pageviews' thing?
2. A: Well... If you dont know how to do this then ill just give you a standard spot to put it.
   1. Open up your footer template
   2. Then Find:
      

      <div class="smallfont" align="center">$vbphrase[all_times_are_gmt_x_time_now_is_y]</div>

   3. And replace that with:
      

      <div class="smallfont" align="center">$vbphrase[all_times_are_gmt_x_time_now_is_y]<br>total page views: $pageviews, page views today: $pageviewstoday</div>

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This hack was based on ZIKI-SET's hack.

[wezoo]

Hi there

must be something im doing wrong here but my counter is going up in multiples of 2

any ideas, thanks

[Mr Chad]

well there must be a something that is calling your global.php twice.

[lucky123]

here's my error

Warning: Unknown(./counter/counter.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(349) : eval()'d code on line 146

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './counter/counter.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/lucky123/public_html/global.php(349) : eval()'d code on line 146

did I miss a step?

I uploaded 3 files to public html then added the plugin
then changed the footer

[Andromeda2875]

I have installed this three times and I am still not able to see anything.

[lucky123]

I'm afraid to try again!!

the other 2 plugins worked just fine (countdown, tic tac toe)

[Mr Chad]

put the file in a folder named counter.

(I will be upgrading this hack to 3.6, when i do ill also let you track your totoal unique page views)

[TomasDR]

I am having a very odd problem.

I setup the corn job to run per your instructions.
Title="Page Views"
Day of the Week=*
Day of the Month=*
Hour=23
Minute=59,-,-,-
Log Entries=Yes
Filename=./counter/counter_daily.php

Note I never see it in the log BUT the next time is always updated in the Scheduled Task Manager view.

So what's the problem, it doesn't update (copy to yesterday_count.txt and reset count.txt to ZERO) with the normal cron job, BUT if I click "Run Now" in the Scheduled Task Manager view it runs just fine and updates the files.

Also note ALL of my other cron jobs work just fine...

Any thoughts?

[Mr Chad]

take a screen shot of your schudled task list (showing the hit counter one)

[TomasDR]

I was out of town, attached is my main manager screen & the Page View job.

[noj75]

Simple and Great.

/me Clicks Install

Thank you.