No. of Page Views

Hi Wevolutions,

Thanks to the addition of a function built into recent versions of CMS Builder called: incrementCounterField, you can implement a counter much more easily.

Here's an excerpt from my latest edition of The CMSB Cookbook that describes how to do it.

CREATING A HIT COUNTER USING THE BUILT IN incrementCounterField FUNCTION
Using the built in incrementCounterField function, you can create a hit counter for a single record editor or a detail page of a multi record editor like this:

In the section editor, create a field called 'hits' (or whatever you want to call it). Then insert this code on your viewer page.

<?php incrementCounterField('your_table_name', 'your_field_name', $your_table_nameRecord['num']); ?>

Or if you don’t want the counter to be incremented when the page is accessed by a particular IP Address (yours for example), try Chris’s recommendation:

<?php if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != '127.0.0.1') { incrementCounterField('your_table_name', 'your_field_name', $your_tableRecord['num']); } ?>

Wherever on the viewer that you want to display the number of hits, insert this code as you would for any other field.

<?php echo $your_table_name['your_field_name '] ?>

LIST PAGE IMPLEMENTATION
For a counter on the list page of a multi-record editor, the process gets a bit more complex. This is because if you used the approach above in a “foreach” loop, all the counters on all your records would increment each time the list page was accessed.

So, first create a table called “Counter” or something similar.

Create a text field in that table for each list page that you want to count. Name the fields something that will be meaningful, preferably with the same name as the editor where you’ll be implementing the count.

Insert the record call to that table at the top of your viewer:

list($counterRecords, $counterMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'counter',
'where' => whereRecordNumberInUrl(1),
'limit' => '1',
));
$counterRecord = @$counterRecords[0]; // get first record

Then insert:<?php incrementCounterField('counter', 'your_field_name', $'counter Record['num']); ?>

Or again, if you don’t want the counter to be incremented when the page is accessed by a particular IP Address (yours for example), try this version of Chris’s recommendation:

<?php if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != '127.0.0.1') { incrementCounterField(‘counter', 'your_field_name', $counterRecord['num']); } ?>

Into your viewer and:

<?php echo $counter['your_field_name '] ?>

Where you want the counter to appear.

As an added plus, you can enter any starting number in any of the counter fields and the count will begin from there, so none of your pages need to show only a small number of hits.

Hope that helps,

Best,

Jerry Kornbluth