Question

On ANY version of TWiki (even latest is fine) -- is there a way to display a "counter" on a page that shows the number of times that page has been viewed? This is a typical function you see on many internet web pages.

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-- StevenElliot - 26 Apr 2007

Answer

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The typical function you see on many internet web pages is just an embedded image with an src attribute in which the URL of your page is passed as a parameter. While TWiki has no built-in function of this sort, any of these which are available on the net can be used in a TWiki page.

You can not rely on the fact that TWiki will auto-generate the <img ... > element for you, but you can explicitly write things like this:

   <img src="http://my.hitcounter.com/counter.pl?url=%SCRIPTURL{view}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%" 
       alt="123" />

Come to think of it: A plain text version which could be used as a TWiki tag wouldn't be too difficult to write as a plugin. Wait a moment (clickedyclick)....

There's CounterPlugin - only that it won't work as it is, because it contains hardcoded paths to the author's installation directory in it...

-- HaraldJoerg - 26 Apr 2007

That's great info -- thanks so much for your quick response on this!

-- StevenElliot - 30 Apr 2007

i cleaned up the CounterPlugin in SVN so that version should work; however, it is still a pretty crappy plugin.

-- WillNorris - 06 May 2007

Note that CounterPlugin in its current form counts site visits, not page visits.

-- VickiBrown - 29 May 2008

It's been a year. Has anyone come up with a working example that you use?

-- VickiBrown - 29 May 2008

Closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Aug 2008