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.

[Ziki]

This is cooler than the old version of mine.

[Mr Chad]

Originally Posted by ZIKI-SET

This is cooler than the old version of mine.

I'm glad you like it. I scrapted some of your code . Was gettin sick of the idea of loading an image. Because it reminded me of one of those bootleg free hit counter sites.

[finn snor]

Does this only work as a total views ?

Im looking for a way get a counter in my calendar that makes it possible for me to see how many that have seen the frontpage of calendar and total views of each event.

Can this handle that ?

[Mr Chad]

nope. You would want to use https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=109523.

or

If you replace the contents of the plugin XML file with:

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<plugins>
    <plugin active="1" product="vbulletin">
        <title>pageviews</title>
        <hookname>calendar_start</hookname>
        <phpcode><![CDATA[require_once('./counter/counter.php');]]></phpcode>
    </plugin>
</plugins>

Then that would only display the pageviews of the calander side. (this is not an extensive hack... Just something quick.)

[Ntfu2]

I followed instructions, placed it in my footer, and i've got nothing

[Mr Chad]

hmm. let me recheck the files

[Mr Chad]

Originally Posted by Ntfu2

I followed instructions, placed it in my footer, and i've got nothing

Installed it on my second board... Works fine, only reason it doesnt work for you could be that you have one or both of these installed:

-Template Cache System
-Plugin Accelerator

and you have not refreshed the Cache for the templates or/and refreshed the plugin system.

[Ntfu2]

Originally Posted by chatbum

Installed it on my second board... Works fine, only reason it doesnt work for you could be that you have one or both of these installed:

-Template Cache System
-Plugin Accelerator

and you have not refreshed the Cache for the templates or/and refreshed the plugin system.

Let me check

Nope, if you'd like i can PM you with some login details to check stuff out, i'm stumped


Edit, I fixed by CHMOD the count.txt file to 666 after upload

[Mr Chad]

Ok its good to see we got that resolved