Show BBClone entry hits

[djm]

This extension is/will be part of Pivot 1.40

Extension Name: Show BBClone entry hits v0.3
Extension Author: Daniel Munzinger
Download Location: see Attachment

Extension Description:
Everyone who uses bbclone for statistics can show the hit count of the given entry. Nothing spectacular but maybe useful for some people.
This usage of this snippet only makes sense if you're using both bbclone and hardened bbclone (either the snippet or the "built in" version of 1.3).


Usage:
[[show_bbclone_hits_entry:formatString]]

Where formatString is e.g.
%n visits so far.
%n Mal aufgerufen.

%n is the count returned by bbclone for the entry.


Note: In another thread Hans stated that this funcionality might become a part of Pivot's "native" bbclone support but until the day of all days I'm keeping this snippet uptodate.

[DavroN]

does it have to include "snippet_"??

bbclone_c4entry

[madjo]

what do you mean? DavroN?

[hansfn]

[djm]

v0.2 contains a bugfix and a bug for special characters like ' & $ etc...

[djm]

[Niwla]

Isn't Wzup an easier way of getting (more or less) the same result (or even better) ?

[djm]

[hansfn]

As djm says, show_bbclone_hits_entry is easier of you already have installed bbclone. If not, wzup is probably easier to get going.

However, there is one issue to consider. Referer spam which makes statistics useless. Some, a lot, referer spam hits are stopped by the integrated "first defense" in Pivot - assuming you have 1.30 installed. However, hardened bbclone has additional (very good) protection against referer spam and hence the stats from show_bbclone_hits_entry will in general be much more relevant than wzup. (I'll leave out the technical details.)

[hansfn]

I have included this extension in the core - ref http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pivot-weblog?view=rev&revision=128
It will be part of the next 1.40 release (beta2 or final). Added info to the docs - ref http://pivotlog.net/docs/doku.php?id=template_tags#show_bbclone_hits_entry

PS! I made some needed changes to the code.

[djm]

[Kay]

Hi,

I recently installed bbclone for my pivot blog and am using the integrated extension show_bbclone_hits_entry. Both bbclone and my blog use utf-8 encoding but I have problems reading the hit count for certain pages that use special characters, in this case the macron.

The page/blog entry is called Kyūyaku Megami Tensei and it's here. The macron heading looks like this and the number of hits is given as 0 in the category Zugriffe:



It says: "Zugriffe auf diesen Eintrag: 0".

But in bbclone the page title is scrambled like this:



Which is probably the reason why it fails to connect the hit count with the page title.

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!

[djm]

I just visited your blog and it seems to work properly now!?

[Kay]

Yes, I'm using PivotX now, which passes the correct title unscrambled.