| Can we count views as well as posts? [message #17903] |
Fri, 23 April 2004 23:52  |
WilliamBurns
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Back several weeks ago, under wwwboard, we could get statistics that showed how many page views each topic received, which also added to the total activity statistics for our overall site. We use a limited version of Urchin, which, evidently, totally ignores php files in presenting statistics. Thus our Urchin report shows no page views of the index.php file (that is, the page is totally missing from the list). Since a high percentage of site traffic is on the forums, everybody wants me to see if I can track the lurking activity too. I did find the statistics report on the control panel, but, of course, it only tracks posts. And yet the number of views of a given topic is being tracked and reported with each topic. Can we not utilize that information to generate a periodic count of the total number of topic views? My folks would be delighted if we could get some data for each month. Even if we could just get a grand total of the number of views in the system, we could do arithmetic from month to month with such a number to get an idea of the viewing traffic. Any recommendations?
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| Re: Can we count views as well as posts? [message #17909 is a reply to message #17903] |
Sat, 24 April 2004 20:54  |
Ilia
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Some log analysis software only consider .html/.htm pages as 'pages' for the purpose of request counting. What you generally need/can do is set a configure option defining *.php and other pages of this type as valid pages.
The views information is stored inside threads table and you can easily get it from that table to present in whatever format you prefer.
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| Re: Can we count views as well as posts? [message #17924 is a reply to message #17923] |
Sun, 25 April 2004 19:38 |
Ilia
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You don't need to do anything special, just retrieve the 'views' column from the threads table. That column contains the number numbers of views for a particular topic, you don't need to do any mathematical calculations.
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| Re: Can we count views as well as posts? [message #17938 is a reply to message #17924] |
Mon, 26 April 2004 17:37 |
WilliamBurns
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I am not making clear how clueless I am. Mathematics or arithmetic I can handle, although it is nice if there isn't any. My problem is in knowing what to do and how and where to do it in order to retrieve the views value from the threads table (without screwing up my installation). Here is what I would assume:
I would be creating a stand-alone function or utility, in php, which would open the threads table. I think I found the structure of the threads table, so I would be looking for the views value. I don't see a mysql table named "threads", but I can keep looking until I do. Once found and opened, I would loop through the entire table, accumulating the total views by adding in the views value for each thread. I would report this value, close the threads table and terminate.
Am I anywhere close?
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| Re: Can we count views as well as posts? [message #17939 is a reply to message #17938] |
Mon, 26 April 2004 18:01 |
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All of FUDforum's tables have prefix, if you didn't change it during installation it is probably "fud26_". When I am referring to the "thread" table, I would actually be referring to the table called fud26_thread.
Instead of looping through each thread, you'd execute a single query that would get your either the total number of views for all threads or threads inside 1 forum.
ex. SELECT SUM(views) FROM fud26_thread WHERE forum_id=1;
SELECT forum_id,SUM(views) FROM fud26_thread GROUP BY forum_id;
Beyond that your description is fairly accurate.
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