What would be the best way to add a hit counter to a blogpost using the Blog4Umbraco package. I think it would be nice if users who visit the blog could see how many times the specific post had been visited.
As a long-lasting solution I would attach the site to some available web analitics system (e.g. google analitics) and get the data into your pages straight from it. You won't invent a wheel and you will be able to access lot more details about your site traffic.
Thanks Rodion for the quick response. The reason I need to save how many times the page is visited is to make a 'popular-posts'-section on the site. How can I get the information stored by Google and use that information in, for example, a usercontrol or a xslt macro? (I never used Google Analytics)
Afaik, there's google analitics API that allows to extract analitics data by simple http GET queries: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/home.html, I haven't yet investigated it in details, but if it works the way I presume then it should be not hard to integrate it to an umbraco xslt macro with the library.GetXmlDocumentByUrl method and subsequential transform.
Blog4Umbraco hit counter
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What would be the best way to add a hit counter to a blogpost using the Blog4Umbraco package. I think it would be nice if users who visit the blog could see how many times the specific post had been visited.
Thanks,
Thijs
As a long-lasting solution I would attach the site to some available web analitics system (e.g. google analitics) and get the data into your pages straight from it. You won't invent a wheel and you will be able to access lot more details about your site traffic.
Thanks Rodion for the quick response. The reason I need to save how many times the page is visited is to make a 'popular-posts'-section on the site. How can I get the information stored by Google and use that information in, for example, a usercontrol or a xslt macro? (I never used Google Analytics)
Afaik, there's google analitics API that allows to extract analitics data by simple http GET queries: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/home.html, I haven't yet investigated it in details, but if it works the way I presume then it should be not hard to integrate it to an umbraco xslt macro with the library.GetXmlDocumentByUrl method and subsequential transform.
Ok thanks!
Edit: I used this post to implement a web usercontrol which showed me the number of hits
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