Timestamp and counter integration. *Request*

[Debikul]

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Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to integrate a hit counter per topic on the board, along with a timestamp to include the time in addition to the date. If anyone could help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.

[Debikul]

Ok, I figured out how to add the time posted but I have no idea who to go about showing how many times a post has been viewed. Can anyone help me out here?

Anyway, to add the time beside the date of a post look for the following code in the mbaord.php file:

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$date=date ("d/M/Y");

and replace with:

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$date=date ("d/M/Y g:i a");

I'm sure someone will be able to find this useful if they are new to php and are just learning.

Anyway, does anyone have any idea how to add a "message viewed 'x' amount of times" to the forum script?

[Klemen]

Hi,

Glad to hear you got the first one going, all it takes is a little effort and I always prefer helping people who show effort

As for the second one, you should use some hit counter, like the one at
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/php-text-hit-counter.php

Then edit mboard.php - line 338 should be empty, you can simply paste something like this there:

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$content.='<p align="center">Message viewed <script language="Javascript"
src="http://www.yourdomain.com/path_to_counter/counter.php?page='.$count.'"></script> times</p>';

Of course replace the URL of counter.php with your own. You could also use any other counter script similarly.

Just a note - this will add the counter to new posts, but not existing ones.

Regards

[Debikul]

That sounds excellent! Thank you a million times!

I seriously had no idea how to integrate something like that and failed trying to do it. But many thanks again!

Oh, sorry about the edit.

I was wondering how it would be possible to put the "message viewed" out beside the date and time portion of the forum to show how many clicks it has. I did see where it showed how many clicks it has once you clicked on the subject, but I was wondering if I could put it on the frontpage beside the topic listing with the time, date, etc?

[Klemen]

That's more work and would require quite some editing and coding and probably also complications (it's easy to do such things with MySQL database, but text databases have their limits).

Regards

[zr]

I created an add on that I think meets your criteria.

Go to viewtopic.php?t=822

Hope this helps!