Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Customization: Showing REAL Hits instead of last-build-hits

To show the realtime hits (and not the hits of the last build), you can do it with an SSI-Call to a script like the clicks.cgi I wrote, this is a clone of the jump.cgi:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl  
# To show the real clicks on site  
# Required Librariers  
# --------------------------------------------------------  
    require "admin/links.cfg";            # Change this to full path to links.cfg if you have problems.  
    require "$db_lib_path/db_utils.pl";  
    require "$db_lib_path/links.def";  
# ========================================================  
    my %in = &parse_form();   
    my ($goto, $id, $delim, $time);   

my $queryparams = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};  
my ($param1, $param2) = split(/&/,$queryparams);  
my ($key1,$pageid) = split(/=/,$param1);  
my ($key2,$visits) = split(/=/,$param2);  
my $realcount = $visits;  

my    $id    = $in{$db_key};    
my    $delim = quotemeta($db_delim);  
my    $time  = time();  

    if (exists $in{$db_key}) {  

# look for new visitors and print the counter  
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";  
        ### new visitors?          
        if (open (HIT, "<$db_hits_path/$id")) {  
            my ($count, $old_time, @IP, $ip, $visited);           
            chomp ($count    = <HIT>);  
            chomp ($old_time = <HIT>);  
            chomp (@IP       = <HIT>);  
            (($time - $old_time) > 21600) and (@IP = ());  
            foreach $ip (@IP) {           
                $ip eq $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} and ($visited++ and last);  
             }  

 ######## yes  
 $realcount = $visits + $count;    
 print "$realcount\n";  
        }  
        ### no  
        else {  
     $realcount = $visits;    
     print "$realcount\n";  
        }  
    }  
    else {  
        &error ("No link specified!");  
    }  

sub error {  
# ------------------------------------------  
#  
    print "Error: $_[0]\n";  
    exit;  
}

In your templates links.html or detailed.html, you have to change "Hits: <%hits%>" to:

Code:

Hits: <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ID=<%ID%>&VISITS=<%hits%>"-->

Hope it works for you! Perhaps the solution can be made a little bit more elegant, I am not very good in writing PERL (and not very good in writing in english, too).

On my site, I also use an expanded version of clicks.cgi for not only showing the hits, but also increase the hits-counter, because on this site I want to count the visitors to the detailed pages and not the people who click on the url.

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
Cyriaxx