Hit Counter

Doe anyone have a Hit Counter for ocPortal?

I was thinking about hacking one together, but don't see any need to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks,
James

There is already one built-in. You can view it by logging into your admin centre, clicking the "Statistics" link at the bottom right, and then the "Page Views" link.

an ocPortal bot log would be cool….

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Thanks for the tip Allen.  That is great for me as the sysadmin and I also like Nigel's idea of a bot log.

However, what I was looking for more was a public style hit counter.  What I envisioned was like block_side_hitbox.  Add it to the main page and at each load it would check the IP number against all ip's that had visited in, say, the last 24hours or that day (not sure about the coding and system hit for each).  If it is a new ip, log it so it knows it counted it and increment the hit score.  If the same ip revisits the same day (or within 24hours) it doesn't get counted again.

I like the page views with like the news and stuff, but the numbers are a little misleading.  If I click on the view news it adds another count to it, and then the numbers become misleading.

I've been reading though the dev guide and it doesn't seem like it would be very hard.  The ocP dev team did a great job of including 99.9% of the functions that I would otherwise have to hand code.

I'll play around with it for a bit, as soon as I have a stable beta I'll post it here (if that's ok???).

Thanks,
James

Sure . I have actually added a hit counter block to my todo list, but it'll be a while before our next release will be coming out.

I am working on the Hit Counter and I am working on several modes for it.

I have 2 quick questions though:

1)  using ocp_query_value is there a way for that function to return rows that are equal to or less than a specified value?  If so can someone give me an example?  What I am looking to do is if the counter is configured to only count an IP number if it has not visited in past 24 hours is query a table to return rows where time => the currentime - 24 hours.

2)  This is for all the readers of the forums:

My current plan for my hit counter is to operate in 3 modes:

  Hour mode: Only count people that have not visited within the past X hours
  Daily Mode: Count an IP only once per day
  Simple Mode: Count every page load, no matter how many times from the same IP number.

Using one of these tree modes will give the most flexability for count hits, if you only want IP numbers that are new in the past X hours or that day you can limit it.  This gives (IMHO) a more accurate count of visitors.  If you do, however, want to count each and every page load, it will do that as well.

Now for the question: are there any other features anyone would like me to implement and/or comments about layout on the page?

I was planning on a block_side type of lay out that would be very close to the Nuke layout:

+—————-+
|   Hit Counter     |
+—————-+
|  256 Hits Since  |
| November 2004  |
|                       |
|   2 Hits Today   |
+—————-+

OK so the drawing is a little crude, but you get the idea.

Thanks,
James

I found a work around to the query question, so I hope to have a working BETA by the end of the weekend.

I am still looking for sugestions on the Hit Counter though if anyone has any.  Also, if anyone would like to beta test for me (I currently only have Windows IIS Machines that I can test on) please PM or E-Mail me.

Thanks,
James

If you post your mod here, I will test it on a few of the installations I am running, and can let you know of any bugs in any of the enviroemnts.

This is the beta of my Hit Counter for ocPortal.  Currently, it only works if the Language is EN.  I am reading though the docs to see what I can do to make it work on other languages, although I can't do the translation myself.  At any rate, should be just as easy as uploading the files, installing though Modeules/Block in the Admin Center and then adding [block]side_hit_box[/block] to your main comcode page (one side or the other).

Please see the Hit Box for ocPortal.txt file for more information.

Thanks,
James

** EDIT: Uploaded new zip file.  I had a small upper/lower case issues in the php file.
** EDIT: Uploaded new zip file.  Made major changes

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If you need Dutch translation give me a hollar, shouldnt take longer then a few minutes.

im working on the Dutch Trans. for OCP with  Flyber

Works perfectly.  Good job JMcNutt

Is there a live example of this working just so I can have a peek? Not being lazy, but I'm in work so I can't test it on my site

ill set it up on my test site im uploading for the dutch translation for OCP

http://neurixcs.com

This is one of my live test sites.

looks good the block.

I have it on my two sites as well:

http://portal.bullheadschools.com
http://jimbo.mybesthost.com

James

I'm glad to see people working on mods and additions for ocPortal.  I'll look forward to adding this to my site.  

-Aaron

Thanks, if you have any trouble getting it going.  Let me know.

Jim