http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: Views plugin help needed en Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:24:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/views-plugin-help-needed#post-7098 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:15:34 +0000 wittmania 7098@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Got it figured out! I studied up on how to use session variables, and that gave me the answer I was looking for. By passing the "last topic ID" variable, I could check to see if it matched the "current topic ID" variable. If it matches, it leaves the record alone. If it's different, it adds a tick to the counter.</p> <p>The post for the completed plugin is here:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1121" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1121</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/views-plugin-help-needed#post-7095 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:45:12 +0000 fel64 7095@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm not sure how it's handled, but it might be worth looking at how phpBB or vBulletin or any other forum software does it. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/views-plugin-help-needed#post-7094 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:26:58 +0000 wittmania 7094@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I am working on a "Topic Views Count" plugin, and I'm just about finished with it. You can see a working version of it here: <a href="http://blog.wittmania.com/bbpress/," rel="nofollow">http://blog.wittmania.com/bbpress/,</a> and see the source code as it is right now here: <a href="http://blog.wittmania.com/files/bb-topic-views.txt" rel="nofollow">http://blog.wittmania.com/files/bb-topic-views.txt</a></p> <p>The only thing holding me up is this; I can't figure out a way to keep the views count from including page views. For example, when page one of a topic loads, the view count will go up by one. But, when page two loads it will also go up by one. So, a visitor has only viewed the topic once (albeit they've viewed more than one page), but the counter has registered two views).</p> <p>I know this isn't a huge deal, and a counter that over-counts is better than no counter at all. Still, I was wondering if anyone would have any ideas. I'd like to avoid using cookies, if possible, because I have no experience with them at all to even know where to start.</p> <p>Any ideas? I'm also open to any other ideas or suggestions for the rest of the code.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>