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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: http://blog.wittmania.com/bbpress/, and see the source code as it is right now here: http://blog.wittmania.com/files/bb-topic-views.txt

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).

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.

Any ideas? I’m also open to any other ideas or suggestions for the rest of the code.

Thanks!